A broody coturnix??? New Photos!

[Stellar]

My bobwhite hen is still sitting on her clutch!

I need to videotape her getting mad at me for feeding her.

I have a pair of button quail that set too many eggs that both the hen and the roo were incubating! All babies hatched too!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Button quail are different, I have a few that will sit and hatch their own eggs. My males would also help set on the eggs, whenever mom got off the nest to do her business, dad would take her place. And often dad would be on the nest at night with mom and the eggs

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Good Luck!

 

[silvia]

Could be from the weather or the season but I have one white english coturnix who is playing this game almost a week.

It is very sweet so I left her.

In the beginning I noticed that she was scratching a box which I left them to use as shelter/hiding place/. The small pieces she gathered and lay on them. When I saw this for the first time, I decided to make a small sandbox which is with a lil roof, so now she stays there and keeps the eggs. Unfortunately not all the time, so there won't be any chicks. Still I hope one day maybe she will learn to be a mom. I read stories that even so quails in captivity don't hatch, some start to. Who knows!!

Hope this helps!

 

[Wifezilla]

I went out and checked again....

Yup! Still broody.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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She is so adorable!

I really want some Coturnix Quail!

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Hope she sits it out. She's got herself a real nice nest there.

But just in case your friend is waiting with an empty incubator, right?

So is this day 5?

 

[Wifezilla]

Day 7 actually...we think. Hubby noticed her missing from the central pen and found her hiding in the hutch and I intentionally waited a couple of days before checking on her. I didn't want her to get spooked if she really was broody. We still aren't really sure when she started because she looks so much like our other brown we get them confused. I think they are actual blood sisters. Anyway, we really aren't sure when she actually started. The quail have a lot of area to run and one blur of brown looks much the same as another

They are so fast!

And yes, I do have a friend with an incubator on standby

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Wifezilla is she still sitting?

quailladyoffortmyers how about the Bobwhite is it still sitting?

What's happening out there?

 

[Stellar]

My bobwhite is still sitting

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