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Recently, we have heard Alpine doing the bobwhite call, quite early in the morning. Apparently my brother had already heard it. Also in one of the cardboard boxes, my mum found some feathers in a circle like a nest was being made.

Also what sort of incubator would you reccomend?

Here's some pictures of Nutmeg, the Mex Speckled, Alpine and the two willow huts.

Okay, thanks! We get about one bobwhite egg per week, no more and that's only one so its probably only one laying. Do they only lay if they have a mate? The one we get per week is usually under the rabbits hutch. I covered the willow dens with straw and now they like climbing on them! :D

Thanks! Too bad that the chicks died :( They were so cute! You have a lovely enclosure for them, that's always what I'd like to do, make it natural, and observe their behaviour. I like things to look wild, that's why I rather not having sawdust everywhere! Do they need a box to nest, or will...

Thanks very much! He also might not even know the real bobwhite song, I've played it to him before and he does nothing. He was rescued along with the other quails from a shipping container so he might have never heard the song. I'm in England, so the native plants won't be very native! :D...

And if you can suggest anyone who might know??? :hmm @007Sean

My male Normal Bobwhite actually NEVER does the bobwhite call! I was wondering if he has made his own up, or copied and changed the female's call? Can they so this? They are meant to sound like: "Bob-WHITE" but Alpine does it more like "wow-WIT"?? Also do Bobwhites need breeding...