From my experience the pen needs to be either very low or very high. When startled, the birds fly straight up and when they gain enough momentum they will injure themselves. My pens are low, quails are on mulch with vegetation. I have a tool I made to retrieve the eggs. Something like an...
I've been raising quails for years, this is the first time it happened!
I will keep the babies raised by mother hen, maybe the lost instinct comes back in the offsprings?
I wonder if this bird will do it again...
The mother quail accepted another four babies which I hatched in my incubator at the same time. There is only one day difference in the chicks' age.
She is a good, protective mum :-)
Hey everyone,
Long time no post!
I have an incredible thing to share... I have a coturnix quail hen that went broody, sat on some eggs and hatched a chick!
Only one so far, but she is a caring and protective mum....
I know how rare it is, I have a very special quail!
Very sad, but as others say, nothing you could have done.
I had a little chick recently that failed to thrive no matter what I did.
I force fed her every hour, forced her to drink, and I did it for 2 weeks.
She never once took any food or water on her own. At two weeks she was 36 grams, when her...
Another lot of quails hatched last weekend - 23 of them !
It was fertility check for the young birds that hatched through September and October and it is very good.
They are offsprings of your quails Satay