Broody Coturnix (in spain) :)

[monarc23]

Well this first one is probably in Africa (if I heard them right) these are a wild subspecies of coturnix... they are just one of the birds that went together to produce our domestic coturnix. Shows a hen going and brooding her eggs then her young...if only i could completley understand what he was saying

Also you'll see mama leading them around, and them eating insects, then it shows mama with her I'd assume 3-4 week old chick.

BTW they spell coturnix "codorniz" in Spain

Heres a bantam hen (chicken) that hatched her coturnix chicks (he used a high cardboard box pretty smart)!

HA! and look at this, ANYONE who hatches chicks knows when tehy come out they arent puffy!!!! I can't believe someoen stuffed an already hatched chick back in an egg for this...so silly:::

Heres a set up where they've got coturnix nesting:

I dunno if this hen is wild or not, she looks injured i know that...but she's also nesting on someones back porch it looks like:

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

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Are Quail chicks always that active at a young age? That is cool!!


GREAT links!!

 

[monarc23]

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Are Quail chicks always that active at a young age? That is cool!!


GREAT links!!

thanks and yes they are they're little zippers

Button quail are even more zippy

 

[Isablahblah]

for the first one it mostly says that in the wild they can put 5 nest one after another and in the early morning or late afternoon she takes some time for herself to eat or just rest.

 

[monarc23]

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awesome! LOL! I love spanish but I honestly don't remember a good deal of it. Were they deffinatly african coturnix like i thought i heard said?

 

[Isablahblah]

yes it is an african coturnix quail that migrates in the spring to spain to lay

 

[monarc23]

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ahah!! explains why i found it from a spain search! LOL! thanks for letting me know!!