buttons and broodeyness?

[citalk2much]

another problem with that is Doves tend to toss the eggs because they take to long to hatch.

 

[Barred Rocks forever]

i think it woul be a interesting expiriment ive heard of people doing it before

 

[silkydragon]

thanks for all the info right now i have them on our sun porch (an inside room that is all windows) on pineshavings and am putting a tuperware thing in for a nestbox i spray painted it so it would be dark waiting for spraypaint smell to go away maybe 3-4days before i put it in i have a trio not a pair

 

[xxSonja]

My Mrs quail goes broody almost every time she gets 6 eggs or more, shes a great mum too, and Mr quail even takes turns on the eggs! Her chicks also tend to go broody and set eggs aswell...
i read somewhere that chicks that are hatched out by the parents in more likely to set eggs and raise chicks themselves, opposed to those that are hatched out in an incubatator and hand raised.
Mr Quail taking his turn on eggs, while Mrs quail take a break lol

 

[quailbrain]

I personally don't think that parent raised verse incubator are. I have many incubator raised who brood. Always a controversial subject but I don't think that you can take it out of them. From the moment they hatch they know to eat and drink. They have flight instinct breeding instinct still so why would they not have the instinct to go broody when they were in the right conditions that made them feel safe to brood???

 

[citalk2much]

I find that parent raised birds do tend to be better parents males better fathers by far, I do have bator parents that hatch and raise chicks just not as many

 

[silkydragon]

seems like mine just laide 1 egg and all 3 2females and 1 male are taking care of it