Turnbull Farms Purebred Jumbo Brown Coturnix Quail Hatching Eggs - 8 Dozen (96)

Arrived on time, packed very well. All eggs looked great. Out of 12, 8 hatched between days 16 and 17. I lost one very small one (my fault, had a power cord issue with the brooder, worked a long shift and found them all cold when I returned home. All were brown and black as pictured except one yellow with one small brown spot on head and one on the back. The 7 remaining are doing great, growing like mad! I am very pleased. The little eggs actually started to visibly move 3 days prior to hatching. The remaining 4 that were unhatched were opened - 3 were unfertilized and one was a milky liquid with a foul odor. No evidence of chicks, so I suppose likely not fertile.Addendum: all chicks from first shipment doing great! The yellow one turned in to a white bird with 3 patches of brown. He's a striking bird. I wound up with 4 males and 3 females. Second shipment arrived just as well packaged as the first, all eggs look great. I will be hatching them out shortly.

None of my eggs hatched, I should have cracked one or two open to make sure they were good and fertile.,my temp was good,

Poor packing. Two eggs cracked at arrival. Only five chicks hatches. They were weak, and all died within a month. I'll never hatch quail anymore.

Not impressed. Ordered 5 dozen, no extra and two were broken upon arrival. On first candling (at 9 days in incubator) found 21 infertile with several questionable. Took off auto turner on day 15 and they started to pip on day 17 and hatch day 17-18. Took nearly 5 days for all to hatch out. Suppliers web site says they are shipped the day they are gathered, obviously not gathered daily. By the end I had one deformed by being taken off turner to early but didn't know which eggs to put back on as I got 2-3 hatch every 12 hours or so. The last 3 had just enough energy to make it out of the shell before dying. Had another 3 infertile found at the end. Out of 60 eggs only 31 made it to the brooder (including the deformed one).An update - those eggs that did hatch grew out nicely, into nice fat health birds even the deformer one who had quite the attitude. Hatched eggs gathered for these and was hatching out at a rate of 90% and over.

I ordered 24 eggs. The eggs where packaged as you would expect them to be. Fragile was printed all over the box. Unfortunately the U.S. Postal service is incompetent. When I picked my package up at the post office the clerk literally shook my package in front of me. When I protested and told him there were eggs in it he told me then it should say so on the package. I then pointed out that the word fragile was stamped about 50 times all over it. "That means nothing to us and I guarantee this package has been thrown around the last 2 days." His exact words to me.Needless to say right off the bat 6 eggs were fractured when candled. My second candle showed 12 of 18 now developing. Third and final candle 3 days before hatch showed 12 chicks. Hatch day 8 made it out. One died. The other four never cracked the shell. I don't now what the post offices part was in my hatch out rate but I do know they "culled" 6 eggs before they even made it to the incubator.I ordered 24 hoping for at least half to hatch and a mixed bag as I'm trying to breed for meat and eggs. I have 7 healthy chicks 9 day old chicks. Unfortunately their feathers are telling me they are all female. Just looking to produce eggs and meat for my family and I. Thank you Turnbull for prompt and courteous service. I give the U.S. Postal service a big thumbs down.

This is my third attempt to hatch quails and I am successful and happy this time . I got 10 out of 24 .I used my home made incubator . I know that I could have had better hatch if I used a good incubator . At least 60% hatch, for some reason about in 6 eggs chick has grown fully yet did not come out. Feel so sad. Thanks Turnbull farm for quality eggs. Sadly I lost one out of 10. Now I have 9 , 6 weeks old quails they are all happy and healthy. Thanks again Turnbull farm.

Our first hatch we had temps too high by a degree or two.. so I did not review due to operator error. Our second hatch we had a happy healthy 20 out of 30 total eggs hatch.. so 66.6%! Using the forced air auto turner with quail rails sold here.

we had over 1/2 of the eggs not hatch saved them and opened there was 2/3 not even fertile.