Help Please! Eggs? Should I..

[savannahRoos22]

Hello!
I have many button quail.
I realize that it is rare for a button quail to be a good mother. My button quail are less than a year old, and have just started laying eggs. They aren't sitting on them consistently or for anymore than a few minutes, but they do make piles of eggs. About one egg a day with 5 females laying. Are they going to eventually choose to sit on their eggs? Should I remove them? I have an incubator with some of their eggs in them, and could be starting another batch in the same incubator. They will be staggered because I have two incubators and have one for lockdown. Anyways, my question is.... Is it likely that it would be best if I removed the eggs to collect for a clutch to incubate or should I see if any females will be good mothers? Are they waiting to get a bigger amount of eggs before starting to sit? Or what?

Thank you so much.

 

[Welshies]

Quail generally suck at being mommas (excluding bobwhite). Use an incubator. Also, if they are anything like Coturnix they will soom be laying 5 eggs a day with 5 hens... a 20% lay rate is nothing for quail! One of my favorite things about them
Incubate those eggs. Do you plan to brood all chicks together? If so keep your staggered hatches no more than a week apart, or you'll have to brood seperately.