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    Broody button quail! Yay!!!!

    Of course it's possible that he inherited a gene that causes a high production of some hormone or some other abnormality that causes his behavior.. But when you say he is the first you hatched, does that mean he was a part of your first hatch or really THE first bird? Possibly the only one in...
  2. DK newbie

    Broody button quail! Yay!!!!

    I let the chicks stay with the parents till I can just barely tell chicks and parents apart, which is about 6 weeks. I can still tell the males from dad by then, but the females start to become a problem - sometimes I need to hold them in my hand to tell them from the mothers, they are still a...
  3. DK newbie

    Broody button quail! Yay!!!!

    There you have the tuxedo and one of his girls. He has color all the way below his tail so it's easy to tell by the color of his vent feathers that he is male. And my tiny blueface with his girl. The blueface's girl is somewhere in that group ^^ And the tuxedo's girls are there :)
  4. DK newbie

    Broody button quail! Yay!!!!

    My roo has been a good father, but he has 3 hens and lived in a small aviary when they were broody, so when the first hen got broody he still had the other two to keep him entertained. And she was a *****, if anyone came within a couple of feet from her nest, she started chirping, clearly...
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