My buff (pastel/dilute, I was told) celadon (she has blue eggs) coturnix quail hen has gone broody, and I don't think it's genetics.
Let me give my theory of how this happened:
1. There were only 3 quails in the hutch (1 male and 2 females), and I had two quails pair bond.
How do I know they...
Hey guys so it looks like out of the ten marked eggs I put under her (she was initially sitting on infertile ones), 5 hatched and 4 were see through when I candled them.
1 looked like it could be developed so I plopped it in my incubator just in case because she gave up sitting on them and...
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I had a coturnix quail who went broody last year in my aviary and ended up hatching several chicks and raising them for a few days until I feared she was losing interest so I took over. (First picture)
This year, she hasn't been out to the aviary much but is mainly in a floor of a...