Aussie Finch Forum

1. Sinker= Dud, Never Developed

2. High Floater (like A Fishing Bobber Without Weights) Say 45% Or More Of The Egg Above The Water Line= Dud, No Development Or Fetal Demise, Likely Rupture Of Internal Membranes Causing The Egg To Dehydrate.

3. Low Floater= Viable Egg, Development Full Term

4. Low Floater Rockin And Rollin! This Is The Live Embryo Moving Inside The Egg= Definate Viable Egg!

jusdeb wrote:Sometimes it feels like ages before they hatch , they all explode out of the eggs on the same day so hatchdate depends on when the hen started incubating which is after the after the last egg was laid .

I could be wrong but this is what Ive observed from mine .

I recently threw out the eggs that didnt hatch from my recent clutch (5 hatchlings of which 2 died). All of the remaining eggs had dead young in them some more than likely only needing a little more time such as a day but the hen seems to leave after the first 5-6 eggs hatch.

Good luck

vettepilot_6 wrote:1. Sinker= Dud, Never Developed

2. High Floater (like A Fishing Bobber Without Weights) Say 45% Or More Of The Egg Above The Water Line= Dud, No Development Or Fetal Demise, Likely Rupture Of Internal Membranes Causing The Egg To Dehydrate.

3. Low Floater= Viable Egg, Development Full Term

4. Low Floater Rockin And Rollin! This Is The Live Embryo Moving Inside The Egg= Definate Viable Egg!

Just did the water test,there where no sinkers,2 eggs where 45% above water line the other 10 eggs just under water line.will just wait and see.

thanks for your help vettepilot
Harv11

Well i cracked a few eggs open today i had a feeling they where all infertile and all eggs where no good.

Might need another male Quail not sure.??????

Harv11

You could put him and one of the hens in a smaller cage for a week or two. Less to distract him in a small cage. So more likely to do his job.
LML

If hens head is bald...he is doing his job ....at one stage I had 3 males a 11 bald headed females