A Guide To Quail Incubators

Hello, I am Nino Castellano from welwynquail.com and today I am going to talk to you about quails. There are three different types of incubators, manual incubators, semi-automatic and the automatic incubators.

We start talking with manual incubators. This incubator is an incubator where you once or twice per day, manually, you have to open the incubator and turn the quail eggs. To start with, underneath all the plates where you put the quail eggs, there is a reservoir of water and then you fill up completely with water, the reservoir, and after then, every 24 hours, you open the incubator and turn the quails automatically.

Every week, you have to make sure that the water is still in the incubator. If there is no water, then you have to fill up the reservoir. The optimum temperature is at 37.

5 degrees Celsius and the hatching time depends from the variety of the quail eggs. In general, it is 17 days. Semi-automatic incubators are incubators that turn the eggs automatically but when you have to rise up the humidity, you have to shut the vents and do some other manual adjustment to make sure that the humidity rises from 40%, that is usually the average humidity that you use during the incubating period, to 70%, the hatching humidity.

This is very important because if the humidity is not high enough, the embryo, when it breaks the shell and tries to come out, if the environment is too dry, the inside membrane sticks to the embryo and does not let him come out of the shell and it will die. The fully automatic incubator is the Rolls Royce of incubators because if you ever got a number of settings that you set up on the beginning of the incubation, and during that time up to the hatching of the eggs, you don't touch them. It will take care of rolling the eggs every 24 hours or more than 1 day if you want so, you like so, and it keeps the humidity to the setup range and when they reach the time of hatching, it automatically stops the eggs turning and will raise humidity to the right settings so that the embryo can come out of the shell without any problem.

So, your intervention is not needed during and up to the time of the hatching of the eggs. And this is the short guide on how to use quail incubators. .