How long until I get fertile eggs?

[Griffin Nest]

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thank you!!!! i've been trying to find the right mutation for ever!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

You can tell it's a blue face mutation because it doesn't have a bib and it has a black beak.

The 'silver' part of the mutation is obvious

 

[Griffin Nest]

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Yay!!! yeah people told me i had a silver- red breasted female but after i found out it was a male i was like "so where's the bib???"

 

[boykin2010]

your quail actually go broody? Ive never heard of this before? Have they hatched any eggs?

 

[Griffin Nest]

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actually they havent. they only go broody for one day, the longest they have gone was 3 days.

 

[Griffin Nest]

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and even when they are broody they get off every 20 minutes and stay off for about an hour and then they sit again. i have an incubator that should hatch their chicks so i dont have a problem with it

 

[jfulcher]

I had my female go broody once for about a week, then DH decided to move the nest thinking oh this should go here......

Since then she is like.......

I ain't sittin' on no eggs.. You moved my nest... I'll lay for you but I won't sit.. You blew it!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

I've had a few that went broody but of course they were in a community cage. They kept getting donations so didn't hatch any. I believe the eggs take longer under a hen? I know one of them, I took her eggs away from her after she'd been sitting 17 or 18 days and put them in the bator. The very next day I had a baby button.

I did have one mama hatch one baby but she didn't seem to know what to do with it and it died

ETA: Though if I'd have had the hens in pair cages rather than community cages I'm sure they would have hatched babies. Caring for them would have been a different story though.