Coturnix Quail Fertile Hatching Eggs, 12 Count Hens Choice

Received 12 eggs. After candling after 2 weeks in the incubator 9 were fertile. 7 hatched at around 18 days. 2 did not hatch. This is the first time hatching quail eggs so I'm happy with the results. After 3 days the seven are doing well. I bought game bird feed at the local farm supply that was 28% protein. I ground it up more in a cheap blender to almost a powder for the new babies. Put in a paper towel in the (homade) broader box. I will feed them this for the first couple weeks then give them the feed without blending. I put water in some 2 litter bottle caps for them to drink. They can reach it easily. I also have a regular quail waterer that holds a quart of water. They will get used to it as they grow. Make sure the waterer is for quail and not chickens. They will drown in a chicken waterer. They drink and eat pretty often so make sure they don't run out. They'll rest alot also. It's amazing how tiny they are when hatched. Hopefully you'll have as good luck as I did. I found quail eggs locally for 3 dollars a dozen so I'll probably go that route next time but overall I had a good experience with these eggs.

When it arrived, 2/12 were cracked with the yolk everywhere in the container. I am a longtime pro of hatching eggs, and so I candled the remaining ones to check for cracks before putting them in the 'bator: only to discover hairline cracks in two more of the ten remaining. I still went ahead and incubated the eight remaining ones, and though the temperature/humidity was perfect the entire time, at twelve days only four eggs had developed at all. Of those, only three hatched. It was a complete waste of money and I'm beyond frustrated.

I ordered a dozen 11 of the eggs were fertile and 8 of them hatched. The delivery was right on time and they were packaged pretty well and they gave me a nice discount for my next order. The ones that hatched were very healthy, and they were nice and fluffy once they dried. When they hatch they are the size of the pink baby mice.

Loved my quail time to reorder

The seller guaranteed that there would be 90% female chickens, out of 21 eggs (that's how many I put in the incubator), 16 healthy military ones came out, five were not fertilized. Of those 16 healthy ones, only 4 hens are left, the rest are roosters.

I have 6 out of 16 hatched and now growing. Ordered a dozen but received 16. Due to lack of hatching. The chicks that had been breaking out of their shell and hatching, had bumped the ones that were almost ready to hatch but not quite ready. I am assuming it disturbed their end development and did not make it. My suggestion before entering them in incubation stage is lock separation between each egg if you would like full hatching. Every egg had developed but as days went some had been disturbed during that process. Future reference :-) I’m sure each egg would have hatched. Appreciated service. Thnx again!

The quality of this item probably depends on seller and is likely not very consistent. I bought from ladonnaM, who shipped 16 eggs. I tossed 4 of them that were clearly cracked, so that left 12. Most of the 12 had hairline cracks, and all had detached air cells. I guess fixing the cracked ones with nail polish like what some people say might be a viable thing to do next time (to avoid the egg from drying out too fast). Out of the 12, I had 3 hatching on days 17, 18, and 19. I dropped 1 egg on day 7. In the end, I had 3 chicks. Upon inspection, for the rest of the eggs, the one I dropped was viable and pretty developed before it died. There are another two that had some development. But the rest 6 had no development at all - indicating that they were not viable. So only 50% of the eggs were viable. Of the viable ones, I am getting a 66% success rate (50% because of the accidental drop...). So I guess things are pretty normal if not for half of the eggs not being viable to start with. But then, this is my first time and 3 quails are enough to keep me busy. So I am not unhappy about it. With that said, I might try eBay next time though. They seem to sell a larger volume of these and have a larger selection, with more reviews and therefore likely more responsible sellers.

We incubated ours and had a batch rate of 10- within the first days none oassed - they are now laying their own eggs and we hatched 6-8 of those!