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It's normal. It will either catch up around 8 weeks or it will stay a runt. Occasionally they die but this usually happens in the first two weeks if it is going to.

Depends on the chicken. I've had orpingtons that went broody as soon as they could and others that never did. Leave ten days worth of eggs in with her to see if she will begin to set on them. Birds lay 7-10 eggs in the wild before they begin to set them.

Maybe. Coturnix have bred in captivity for thousands of years. Possibly even longer than chickens. Their instincts are damaged. It is rare for a coturnix to sit on it's eggs. It does sometimes happen, but very seldom. It doesn't matter whether there is a rooster or not.

Italian, rosetta, a&m, tuxedo, range, roux dilute, golden manchurian, pharaoh, etc. They are just names of the colors of coturnix.

If coturnix are making noise, they want something, or don't like something. Most likely they miss a bird that was part of their group before. THey are proabably calling to a bird you didn't buy from the breeder. Or they want food/water or one is being aggressive and picking on them.

Just be patient. They can crow from 5-6 weeks on depending on genetics. They often wont crow until week 8 or 9. Whoever is telling you that crowing matters to mating doesn't one end of their birds from the other. Happy roosters rarely crow. They usually begin lay eggs between 7 weeks and 12...

They don't crow every time they want to mate. They crow when they want to mate and don't have any females around, like when I raise meat birds and have 30 roosters together. I usually have 6-8 roosters and 30+ hens. Some days I don't hear a single crow, but my eggs still hatch just fine. Also...

Sometimes I'll go months and not hear one or another of my roosters crow. They usually only crow when they aren't happy, or when there is another rooster near by.

No, like juicy said, they'll kill the babies.

It is very possible, budgies brood their eggs for 18 days typically and coturnix eggs usually hatch between day 17-19. Whether or not they hatch depends on her skill as a parent. Has she hatched eggs before?