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If I am not mistaken, reading on the history of these guys, silkies were exactly they used for hundreds of years. The domesticated quail kind of lost their taste for broodiness!
Yeppers same thing i read! First time i ever mentioned that on a post people acted like i was making it up. But yes the chinese or the japanese (i thnk the japanese) used none other than silkies for their coturnix hatching.
Some say silkies would break the eggs but an experienced hen would dowell with them esp since SOME coturnix eggs are as large as bantam eggs !LOL!
YAY! More in the coturnix dark sideeee
If I am not mistaken, reading on the history of these guys, silkies were exactly they used for hundreds of years. The domesticated quail kind of lost their taste for broodiness!
Yeppers same thing i read! First time i ever mentioned that on a post people acted like i was making it up. But yes the chinese or the japanese (i thnk the japanese) used none other than silkies for their coturnix hatching.
YAY! More in the coturnix dark sideeee