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Jap quail
Posted: 13 Dec 2012, 21:22
by mattymeischke
I got some Japs recently; I've not had them before.
I had understood that they don't incubate their own eggs anymore, and that they must be artificially incubated.
I had been collecting eggs for my mate with an incubator, but a few weeks ago there started to be less eggs, then I found a hen sitting on 8 eggs.
Yesterday I checked her nest:
JQ nest.jpg
...then found a baby...
JQ chick.jpg
...then Mum.
JQ mama.jpg
She hatched 7 of 8.
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 13 Dec 2012, 22:11
by finches247
Nice Work Matty
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 13 Dec 2012, 22:20
by elferoz777
Thats pretty damn lucky mate,
Good stuff
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 14 Dec 2012, 06:40
by Danny
Well done. I hatch 150 a week but if they think they are getting a bale of straw so they can do it themself they are sadly mistaken.
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 14 Dec 2012, 08:13
by jusdeb
Wow ..mine arent laying enough to feed the parrots at the mo so might leave them in the cage and see if they sit .....very exciting and beautiful bubs .
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 14 Dec 2012, 08:59
by SamDavis
Danny wrote:Well done. I hatch 150 a week but if they think they are getting a bale of straw so they can do it themself they are sadly mistaken.
Let me get this straight - your quail have internet access (since they're reading this thread) but you wont give them a bale of straw?
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 14 Dec 2012, 09:06
by Craig52
Danny wrote:Well done. I hatch 150 a week but if they think they are getting a bale of straw so they can do it themself they are sadly mistaken.
Well Sam it only takes one comment to take the gloss off your out standing achievement,well done. Craig
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 14 Dec 2012, 11:37
by finchbreeder
Congatulations. You obviously have one of the few hens who has not been taught by having her eggs taken away, that it is not her job to raise them.
LML
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 14 Dec 2012, 13:17
by TomDeGraaff
I'm very pleased to hear of your success. Keep the young, especially the hens and hope they have learnt the fine art of incubation. The ONE thing that puts me off keeping Japanese (European?) quail is them not incubating.
Very very well done (to the hen)
Re: Jap quail
Posted: 14 Dec 2012, 16:37
by Myzomela
Well done Matty.
I agree - keep her hens!
Would you believe that I was belittled on a game bird forum for even suggesting that hen gamefowl be allowed to incubate their own eggs? It's not like these birds were worth a lot of money or that they were commercially breeding them.
If you have them for a hobby then why not give them the chance to do what should happen naturally, and enjoy the experience.
Again, well done!