Scaled quail or bobs? Most of the bobs I am seeing north of Amarillo are still in small coveys.

Had my first hatch, 32 chicks. This is not the number I was hoping for with 100 eggs in the incubator. I will start another batch in 5 days hope it has a better hatch.

You should have a much higher hatch rate. What kind of incubator do you have? Is it in a an air conditioned building or a barn? Do you have a humdifier on your incubator?
To do the numbers you are trying to do you need a cabinet style incubator and should have it in an area where you can control temperature. The other possibility is that your eggs were damaged in shipping or are old.

Yes I have a commercial style incubator with 6 large trays and a humidifier. I could probably put 1000 eggs in at one time. I think my problem was that I picked the eggs from my pens which some had been on the ground longer than others. My first eggs started to hatch out at 22 days and the last eggs hatched at 27 days. I will give the incubator a few days off and collect all eggs from 2 days of dropping.I have the incubator inside a closed feed barn and the inside incubator stays at 100 degrees constant. I can gather about 100 eggs a day from my pens.

the sooner the eggs go into the incubator the better. eggs in the sun for too long are easily killed. if you are storing eggs for a day or so they need to be in a tray at a slight angle in the shade and the tray turned around twice a day. I notice my incubator worked much better when I put it in a temperature controlled building. It is in a cement block shed with a window air conditioner set at 80-85. If you have more than three hens per male some of your eggs may be infertile. Best fertility is from a one to one ratio. Humidity and temp are crucial. I shoot for 99 temp and measure with a good digital thermometer. If you are having temperature problems consider replacing your thermostat. They fail more than anything else. Watch your humidity tray, if it empties you will have a problem.

Thank you. my ratio is pretty close to 1/1. I allow the quail in the pen to also lay in a nest and might try removing the eggs from the nest only and not the ones scattered about the pen.