Serama hen hatching quails

[SweetieChicken234]

This is so cool to see. I have jumbo quails but no bantams.

 

[Synkou1]

Today my lavander pekin hatched another batch of quails. Still few left to unzip. Interesting enough. Lavander pekin incubated for 16 days. Serama incubated for 18 days. All eggs from same quails. And the space between incubation is 5 days. Wondering what could be the difference ? Hens size? Better insulation ( Perkin are very fluffy) time duration of leaving nest ? Quite peculiar.

On the other updates serama quails are growing spectacular and she is very good broody hen.

 

[Twizzler]

How have the quail chicks fared being reared by hens?

 

[tlcmurphy]

Great pics! Your mama hens are wonderful

 

[Synkou1]

Hey. Both were great. They tended and cared for quails. Although by the day 9 they started pecking on them and given they are a lot smaller there were plucked weathers and some blood.
My observation was that quail chicks were too independent and too all over the place. Hens were getting stressed and tried to do some discipline. Once removed hen was just sitting next to the cage and looking after what I called ‘bird watching’. She would go eat do her business with the rest of the flock then jump to the cage and sit by. I didn’t really bothered to do anything as I saw he going to eat drink scratch with her flock and after few weeks she just went back to flock and now is back to laying.
Overall very happy with this little ‘experiment’ just need to remove hen at right moment.

 

[Synkou1]

Some pictures to add. Does look a bit messy but having 17 quails they pop everywhere every minute

 

[Twizzler]

Thanks for letting us know! They look so warm and content with their mom lol

 

[sybonbon]

This is so cool to see. I have jumbo quails but no bantams.

I just hatched out some quail under my standard size Black Marans.

 

[Synkou1]

I just hatched out some quail under my standard size Black Marans.

How she managed? Given being larger? Is she staying with quail chicks? I am just curious of other people experience. My third hen is now sitting on quail eggs. They just want to be broody all year this year

 

[sybonbon]

How she managed? Given being larger? Is she staying with quail chicks? I am just curious of other people experience. My third hen is now sitting on quail eggs. They just want to be broody all year this year

I started with a clutch of 10 eggs under her. There was some broken or consumed eggs. She ended up with 2. As soon as I saw some cracks on day 16, I pulled the eggs out and put them in my heated brooder. I kept the light at 95 degrees F. One hatched in a 45 minute interval, the other was the next day.