So, now that I have by new buttons I am spending way to much time watching them. I am fascinated by the males dedication to courtship and egg care. Unfortunately thus far my female shows little interest. The male checks the one egg that she laid multiple times a minute when he is not otherwise distracted. He has rea-arranged the nesting material over the egg and around the egg with great meticulous dedication- one piece of sawdust at a time. He was upset that the female did not want to sit on the egg with him last night and that she chose instead to hide under a clump of grass. Now I catch him occasionally on the egg. I have read that both sexes take part in chick rearing- but is their ever a mr mom that goes broody?
