Surprise, surprise, the fertile hatching eggs that turned into a breeding pair was really FOUR pheasants, three female and one male. All three girls laid eggs today, two in my mom's car and one right after she got here with them. Unfortunately, one of the females and the male got head injuries from flushing in the dog crate, so I've had to separate them. How long will the hens lay fertile eggs without him in the pen? I want to save them for X days and then incubate. I'll be building the flight pen over the next few days and I'll reintegrate them once they are healed. The male is in a quail pen adjoining the two uninjured females' pen and then injured female is in a bedroom in the house in a dog crate with a dropped plastic mesh roof to prevent reinjury. I'm hoping to get a door on the last pen in my hutch tomorrow if I can figure out how to drop the roof on it and then get the other female outside by the others (The quail pens are on the back of my rabbit hutch, I have an empty rabbit hutch she can go in if I can figure out how to drop the roof without ruining it for rabbits.)
