Day 18-ish for buttons?!?!?!

shelleyd2008

the bird is the word
11 Years
Sep 14, 2008
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My buttons are finally hatching!! I set these 3 days after I set my coturnix, since buttons are supposed to take 15 days, as opposed to coturnix's 18 days. The coturnix are almost 3 days old, and at last count there are 4 new button babies! Silly birds, they don't know what they want to do!
 
I know mine's not, the coturnix hatched on day 18 as scheduled, and my bator is a forced-air hova. I guess these guys just wanted to take their time! There was 1 that hatched the day before the coturnix did, so on day 14-ish, but the rest waited. But that's just like the eggs my hen was on. I know she sat for about 3 weeks, and the first baby hatched 2 days after I took her eggs away! So that one took a good 21 days to hatch as well.
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