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Oh, no I took photos of her resting on the ground with them sitting on top of her. I have to get my old laptop out to put the SD card into....new laptop of 2 years has no opening for one. Will get it now, thanks! I need a kick up the bum.

PS Yesterday I didnt see Mum and chicks ALL DAY. I was a little worried, because I had heard owls again last night. Havn't heard them for a couple of months, but as my chickens love to roost on the very topmost branches (because they're idiots trying to be top chook, even when its raining, but...

Thanks Couchie! Because my quail were hatched by a chicken mother, they probably think they are chickens. They are 2 weeks and 5 days old now, still 5 alive; and mum brings them to the communal feeding place late afternoon, and all of the flock eat together. When the bantam stops mothering...

PS a little about me. I live in a small town in NZ. Apart from the bantam mum, who is about 5 years old, I have 3 Leghorn Hens, Silver Duckwing, who are about 3 or 4 years old. They are all free range on my quarter acre section, with many trees and shrubs and wild places. If you know...

They spent their first night up in the tree last night, all came back down safe this morning..whew! I realised it was going to be too difficult to keep trying to pen her in the evening, without causing them all stress. Theyd go in easy enough and then half hour later, he'd jump out and only...

Bantams are good Mums. I currently have 2 week old California Quail chicks hatched by a bantam. They flapped out of the open pen, as of 2 days ago, and they're only 2 weeks old today. They listen and have stayed with her for 3 days, roaming around her overgrown back yard; but she tries to go...

Update***** 2 days ago, before they were 2 weeks old, mum jumped out of the pen, and one flapped up and over to join her! So I let them all out. they stayed with her for the whole day, and then I herded her back into the coop in the evening to sleep in their little voered home. Yesterday...

PS I found it difficult to find an exact incubation time for California Quail, most of my googling said 18-23 days ! Not very exact. So I started pulling out a couple of eggs from under the bantam and holding them to my ear from day 17. I didn't hear anything until day 22 (movement) and they...

PS, none of the mortalities of my coturnix in the past were due to predators, but my own mistakes. The ones that lived to 4 weeks old I opened up the pen at about 3 weeks old when fully feathered up, and they foraged around the yard with their mother, while i supervised, and she would bring...

5 days and still 5 chicks. Doing well, eating chick starter crumbles. Outdoor pen of about 10 foot by 6 foot oblong of sturdy square mesh wire, 3 foot high, open roof. This breed seems much hardier in the early days than the previous clutches of coturnix. They listen to mummy bantam when she...

Hi, thanks for your reply. I live in New Zealand, so we have less predators, with cats being the main one. We have lots of wild California quail on the outskirts of town, so Im hoping. I know! Its a big hope.

Even chick starter will work. I bought that this time, but last time all I bought was canary seed mix and they made it to adulthood. But they lived outside and were adept at pulling up worms from 2 days old.

Hi all, Ive hatched 2 previous clutches of Cotunix Japonica quail with this bantam, but the mortality rate was very high in the first few days. We would just find dead ones. BUT I didnt make an adequate home, I dont think. The bantam mum is a free range chicken. The 2nd clutch we got 4 quails...

Hi, I have hatched 2 separate clutches of Coturnix Quail under a bantam chicken. She raised them well, the first batch didnt last long, because they got stood on, and dirt thrown on them whilst she scratched. The second batch, we had four that lasted 4 weeks, and she took them all round the...

Hi, I have raised hatched and raised 2 sets of coturnix quail using a bantam hen. She was great, and it was really my own mistakes that led to the eventual fail of both sets. But i am going to try again shortly. the second batch grew to 4 weeks, were responding to her calls, had learnt to...

haha! thanks, LoverofChickens. I already have 2 Brown Shavers and a Light Sussex Hen. Don't actually know why I want to cross breed? I like the thought of a chook eating very little and laying lots of big white eggs like the W-Leghorn, but I also like to eat my Roos....

Hi everybody! I have a Light Sussex hen and im thinking of getting a White Leghorn to breed with. I'm hoping the male carries the egg-laying ability gene, and will pass this to the offspring. I want a a bird that the roos will be big enough to eat, hens will eat less and lay more eggs than Light...