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My incubator was the quail who laid them. Five hatched successfully of which 2 were trampled by parents and one escaped the cage and probably became bird food.

Anyhow, two chicks ha e survived thus far,.so a survival rate of 2 out of 8 with no intervention from me except for food and water.

Apologies didn't really realise that Japanese people were offended by the word being shortened to jap. Being that I have a Pakistani husband and he always shortens the word to paki when talking about anything from there. Same as the British don't mind things being shortened to Brit. But I...

It's about 1 square metre at the base. Only housed 2 birds. It's also under the cover of a large date palm so goes unnoticed by predatory birds. I've been trying to get dad out but every time I go near the cage she goes on the rampage. He seems to be keeping a low profile and isn't troubling the...

I have kept 2 adult birds outside through this last winter. My cage photo is on my thread about my girl incubating her own eggs. It's got a leaning cover on one side of a A frame and I put a little brick house in the pen too and some lawn clippings. I'm in SE qld in toowoomba so we get quite a...

Not sure if I've done this right. Cage is home made and just resting on the ground. The parents seem happier now there is some longish grass in there. The mum definitely nested better with some grass around her. dad is also loving the long grass as he can hide from his crazy missus. Tried to...

I have 3 live and active jap chicks! So out of 8 eggs in her nest she has managed to incubate 5 in total to live birth, 2 sadly got squashed after fully leaving their shells. I think the problem is that I left Dad in the pen as I only had a single breeding pair. She's turned into a psycho and...

My first chick hatched today, sadly I think mum might have suffocated it as baby was lying squashed under mum. But the exciting thing is that mum incubated with no help from me. This is her second attempt. Her first clutch were laid indifferent spots then brought together and she made a nest...

My jap quail has been sitting on her eggs for about 7 days. The cage is a simple prism with ground as base. She made her own nest and she has been so eager that she has even pushed a couple of rocks into the nest thinking they are extra eggs. Will post again if they hatch. Incidentally, before...