[b]Anyone Tried this?[/b]

[brimstone555]

what if you put a Japanese quail Hen in the Brooder with Chicks, will she get clucky and learn to be a mommy? hmmm... Anyone think this has a chance? I'm curious if it could work or no chance?? I have Japanese quail, but no chicks at this stage... I just wonder why they are reknowned for not sitting on their eggs... button quail have no problem!

Actually I was thinking that during "pipping" stage to place eggs direct to brooder with HEN, see what happens? Anyone done this??

Any comments most welcome, thx

 

[jm93030]

Once I put an injured female with some days old chiks and she did very well , even some of the babys slept under her.

But I also tried an injured male and he was very mean to all the chicks

so i guess females will do good
but males will not

just keep an eye on them

 

[Rozzie]

Good way to risk the lives of your chicks...

Safer to just put a lamp over them.

As for button quail, not all of them make good mothers either. Many will go broody. Some will sit through til hatch. Some will kill the chicks...

 

[brimstone555]

Well my point is not to risk the lives of chicks, but just wondered if Japanese Quail can rediscover some broodiness/parenthood etc... you read many things here like quails live for 9 years!?? Some will sit on eggs (not believing this!!) etc etc... so if anyone had some kind of success or trial then I'd have a go too! cheers

 

[JJMR794]

I'm Not So Sure They Have "lost" The Drive To Brood So Much As They Arent Being Kept In Condusive Environments... There Are Many Stories Of Sucessful Coturnix Broods/ Hatches By Mamma... Almost All Are In More Natural Surroundings. So If Your An Experimental Type Of Soul Build A Ground Pen, Plant It With Tall Grasses And Let Them Grow And Then Place Some Quail In There And See...

 

[joe125]

You will get a better hatch rate from an incubator than a broody coturnix! You can take that to the bank, and cash it like a check!

Anything that anyone considers QUAIL, are not chickens.

The first rule of game birds/ Quail is to stop thinking CHICKEN.
You can teach/train a coturnix to peck out the "Star Spangled Banner" on a tiny piano, given enough time and money, but if you are serious about raising coturnix, then you need a good bator,brooder, and STOP THINKING CHICKEN!

Just my opinion