After several years of failed Chinese egg incubators, I have gone back to a branded model incubator for our quail eggs. This new quail egg incubator is an Italian made Ilumia 8 by Borotto and is all we really need for a small backyard quail egg operation.
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I enjoy your quail videos. Did they send this incubator to you or did you buy it? I look forward to seeing how it works out for you.
Thank you. I'm going to try incubating chicken eggs for the first time so I'm in the market for an incubator. But totally unsure which I should buy.
Over the years I've raised quail… when my daughter was little, she loved me to fry her "little eggs"….. quail are so messy…. I always end up letting them go…
Loved this vid Mark… I'd love a bit of land to have a go at keeping farmyard birds. I'll be looking out for the next quail vid. Cheers Adam
I actually finance my feed by selling chicks during the spring and summer months so I’ve got a huge cabinet incubator but I’m considering getting another smaller one for quail. They hatch so quick and they really get in the back corners of the thing and I’ve got to go in waist-deep after them. Also I worry when they hatch out at the same time as the bigger birds and co-mingle. I was considering a Hovabator so I’m glad you had a good experience with the brand.
Can you go over what you feed them? I've raised pharaoh quail and Bobwhite quail, but when I did, I had to feed an expensive higher protein game bird feed.
Any tips on a more self sufficient feed, or cheaper feed, so I do not have to rely on a feed store to grow them?
interesting video today Mark !! can't wait to see what happens
Great Information. We have wild quail here. so that is awesome to have some info about this.
hi mark, just wondering if you can give me some advice on the dates for the frost white quails start laying season…
thanks, much appriciated
Joshua (Uk)
Why not let the birds do the work?
How did the new incubator do .
Hi Mark, I was wondering if you had any updates on your incubator and how it fared in SEQ temperatures. I've just got started with quails and my (cheap) incubator keeps overheating. I'm considering buying a new one (primarily looking for a larger incubator than my current one) and the Borotto looks great. Would you recommend it?
Thanks for all your advise in your quail videos. My pen is now built. Drinkers up and running. Found some jumbo quail eggs.hope I get a good hach rate.
Have you looked at the GQF incubators?
Here's a video that shows my first batch of quail hatching out in the Borotto https://youtu.be/5dkO27LUCak
china sucks , the products they make suck they try to steal as much as they can from other countries , don't buy from them .
Never buy chinese mat…
Good video, well done, how it the machine going a year on? any hassles?
I am deciding to go an 8 or a 24,
I've never eaten quail, are these worth all the sorting through all the little bones?
I found 2 quail eggs on the garden in my school and didn’t know what to do with them thanks for the info
I like the turners that have the room for the quail and the regular chicken eggs. Then you only need one turner.
Thanks you! Because of your channel I got inspirerd to keep quails in my small city garden. I have a 2 by 1,6 m pen for 5 quail. I am really happy and so is my son. Just be selfsufficient in something……
I’ve got the same incubator and am getting 99% hatch rate , very impressed with it , the Chinese one went in bin were it belongs
We ordered one of these incubators, plus the external humidity pump, placed water line in a gallon of distilled water. Eight of the nine goose eggs we placed in there are fertile. Due sometime between 27th and 30th. We are excited!
Thank you Marc for all your teaching of the rest of us. I got into quail because of you and I have learned a lot about gardening and I grow most of my own vegetables. I keep a couple of worm farms and have learned to compost from your teaching. I am currently incubating my third batch of quail eggs and have learned as I go but I am a long way from being successful. Anyway thank you for your channel. You have also inspired me to make our own YouTube channel to tell the world about the Orphans that we are raising and educating in central China. It hasn’t really been launched yet but in watching you, we are giving it a go. Currently we have four foster homes and a school for disabled and abandoned children. So thank you for your part in that.
Once those cheap plastic incubators overheat and you're looking at a fire hazard INSIDE your home, it's a bad way…..for you to die. I'm dealing only with incubators that have followup and a replacement price list in my country, or the USA.
How does the THICKNESS of the Borotto plastic compare to the Chinese knock offs??? And can you use it cleanly as a brooder?? I'm thinking of the 16 for my personal use, but the humidity control is half again the price of the unit. Rcon has their humidity pump built in!!!
Hi Mark I am from London. I got the problem with the quails they look like they have the cold only for one day.They eat well drink well the only problem its they can’t walk for 4 hours and they shake like they have cold autside it’s now -2C only they are in shed no birds go in side.TX FOR ANSWER
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can we see more quail videos please!