Yeah, they do ... another 5 weeks, and they are adults 😭
Both moms still are tag-teaming, adoreable !
Mom is more the cautious and calling for hiding, when I open the hutch. Auntie is more bolt and is calling the littles outside for fresh food and water ... when my interpretations are...
Super cute 😍
I see some Tibetan/Rosetta (the dark ones) and some Silver/Blue (not 100% sure). Many of them pied/tuxed.
The one in your hand will become a beautyful back-pied, adoreable ... possible Tibetan in the pie, but also not sure.
Quite early to tell in many cases.
Congratz 😃👍
It happens quite often, this sudden turning.
It can be to much heat, to much light, another bird died and the order is re-organizing.
Also I just relized (first nature breed), that when a hen gets broody, she attacks the roo.
I reconstructed some of my incidents and propably some of my...
I removed the eggs now and I was surprised, that only 3 hatched. I saw so many feet 🤔
A fourth one cracked the shell nearly open, but gave up then.
With the one, which didn't survived the first night, that leaves 2 chicks.
I candled the remaining eggs and 5 more were fertile and developed, but...
Bad news, ... one of the little ones didn’t make it.
Mom still tried to warm the dead body 😞 ... and mocked at me, while I was removing it, in the morning.
Nature-Breed is survival of the fittest. I need to keep that in mind.
My guess is about 4-5 chicks hatched, but impossible to tell how...
Just this morning ... and it seems, that she is taking good care. But it has to be constant. I need to watch it.
Funny... the one, which was sitting with her for three days, is sitting again with her 🙈
I was about to take her away, but a friend of mine told me then, that she had tree broody...
Next Update.... as curiostity is killing me, I took the chance just a few moments ago, when she was doing her daily roam, and just grabbed and candled one egg as a sample: it is fertilized and developed 😃
I would say just before hatch, from the point of developement, roughly 14th to 16th day...
No ... still stting, with her daily walk around.
I keep listening at the outside of corner of the hutch, where the nest is, but no sounds.
But as I wrote, the exact point of starting is not exactly to define. Still fingers crossed
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I can only aggree, a real beautyful bird.
I got not experience with buttons, just Coturnix, but as my daughter wants so hard some buttons, I was just starting to take a look at the colors.
According to the following color sheet, my best guess would be a Golden Pearl female. But I really don't...
She is still a brave expecting mother 🥰
Meanwhile an other hen got broody and started sitting with her (including laying her own egg additional into the nest, which I removed). But she just kept up for about 3 days.
... ok, this as update.
As far as my estimated guess is valid of her...
I was able to get a better pic, while changing water and filling feed.
Brave little one 😍
She is still doing fine 👍
I guess she's sitting about 10 days now, so 7 to 10 days to go ... maybe another 5 days tolerance for not knowing since when she is sitting constantly and also I read, that...
Hi folks, ... long time no see.
Got some bussy real life recently.
But I have something, I need to share. Of course as the title suggests, I got a broody Coturnix quail 😍 ... First time in 3.5 years.
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Here she sits, ... sorry for the pic quality, but I didn't wanna bother her with...
Just because you haven't experienced different, does not mean, it doesn't exist otherwise ... .
Italian males with no red mask are uncommon, but they are existing.