YAYYYYY!
Bit of a story;
She was seeming a little aggressive at the beginning of the week, pecking at the other females and even the male (though he wasn't bothered by it), then three days ago, she seemed to fiddle around inside the nesting area, rolling the eggs around and so on, she laid her egg. The next day we found her sitting on the eggs, we thought she was laying another one, but it was too early for her to be laying eggs, and she continued to stay like that for a few hours before in the morning she was walking around casually in the cage scaring off the others again. She proceeded to sit on her eggs again when I came back home in the afternoon (not sure if she was sitting on them throughout the day though), then yesterday she was becoming very protective of the nest, every quail who walked past, she would get off and chase them away. It had around 15 eggs (from my 4 hens, including her), and she was trying to squeeze all of them under her, we decided to move her into another box so she could sit on them alone, but she didn't want too and just wanted to get out.
So then we decided to just move the actual nesting box itself, plus taking away a few eggs (now she only has 8), and since we've moved the nesting box, shes sitting on the eggs more regularly and rolling them and also constantly getting off to eat and drink, and now shes not distracted by anyone else, except me. She doesn't mind me poking my hand in though...
The eggs are probably only a few days old, and hopefully are fertile. She's an incubated chick, around 3 months old now. I know this may not last long, but hopefully separating her from the others might convince her to stay on longer. She broke an egg the other day and nothing had developed but she hadn't properly gone broody, so I'm guessing today would be the official day of day one...
(Pic of her starting to be broody, with eggs that can't fit under her because she does't have enough room.)
(A video of her when she started being broody.)
http://s1094.beta.photobucket.com/user/GoldenMoonflower/media/BroodyButtons1.mp4.html
Bit of a story;
She was seeming a little aggressive at the beginning of the week, pecking at the other females and even the male (though he wasn't bothered by it), then three days ago, she seemed to fiddle around inside the nesting area, rolling the eggs around and so on, she laid her egg. The next day we found her sitting on the eggs, we thought she was laying another one, but it was too early for her to be laying eggs, and she continued to stay like that for a few hours before in the morning she was walking around casually in the cage scaring off the others again. She proceeded to sit on her eggs again when I came back home in the afternoon (not sure if she was sitting on them throughout the day though), then yesterday she was becoming very protective of the nest, every quail who walked past, she would get off and chase them away. It had around 15 eggs (from my 4 hens, including her), and she was trying to squeeze all of them under her, we decided to move her into another box so she could sit on them alone, but she didn't want too and just wanted to get out.
So then we decided to just move the actual nesting box itself, plus taking away a few eggs (now she only has 8), and since we've moved the nesting box, shes sitting on the eggs more regularly and rolling them and also constantly getting off to eat and drink, and now shes not distracted by anyone else, except me. She doesn't mind me poking my hand in though...
The eggs are probably only a few days old, and hopefully are fertile. She's an incubated chick, around 3 months old now. I know this may not last long, but hopefully separating her from the others might convince her to stay on longer. She broke an egg the other day and nothing had developed but she hadn't properly gone broody, so I'm guessing today would be the official day of day one...
(Pic of her starting to be broody, with eggs that can't fit under her because she does't have enough room.)
(A video of her when she started being broody.)
http://s1094.beta.photobucket.com/user/GoldenMoonflower/media/BroodyButtons1.mp4.html
