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Cheeta
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Well remember how I was saying in my other post about my quails being babies.. well they ain't babies... 
I was in the aviary earlier, and was fussing about when I noticed two little brown speckled eggs in the quail's box!!  I got really excited.. I am now hoping that Mama will sit on the eggies.. fingers cross everyone that I'll have little fluff ball running around soon. hehehe.. |
Wednesday January 4, 2006 6:38 am |
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Fluffy Sue
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Ohhh that is soooo cool! I am crossing my fingers for you here.. |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 1:26 pm |
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Cheeta
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Thanks Sue. I'm hopeful that Mama will sit on them. King quails are known to lay but not sit on their eggs, so I'll just have to wait and see what Mama does. I'm hoping for the best.. hehe. |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 3:08 pm |
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Cathy
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OMG  What a surprise! All you people with your eggs are soooo lucky! I hope all goes well with them! |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 3:50 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
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I'm surprised that they're known for not sitting on their eggs.. 
Hopefully your quail will! |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 4:04 pm |
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Cheeta
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quote:
Originally posted by Cathy
OMG What a surprise! All you people with your eggs are soooo lucky! I hope all goes well with them!
Thanks Cathy, and yes it was a real surprise.. I was so very excited when I saw them!! Especially the night before I was just saying they are not ready for egg yet, and all this while I've got eggs sitting in my aviary!! |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 4:06 pm |
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Cheeta
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quote:
Originally posted by Fluffy Sue
I'm surprised that they're known for not sitting on their eggs..
Hopefully your quail will!
Yeah, for some reason, some quails just doesn't know how to nest!! I don't know if she will or not, but apparently they sometimes lay a lot of eggs first then choose to only sit on some.. who knows. weird creatures... May be Greg can shed some light on this since he had those King quails before. |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 4:07 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
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That's strange!! I never heard of these things.. Why that much effort if you only want to sit on one? I mean, producing eggs is very very hard I think! |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 4:56 pm |
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Cheeta
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Not sure why, but I have noticed all the scattered eggs at bird shops and then there are little nests of eggs around as well.. I think the scattered eggs have been ignored... then again, I've also heard of someone's quail laying a whole nest of eggs to then cover it up with dirt to start over again before she sat down on those newly laid eggs. Who knows, just some strange birds... hehe. |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 5:08 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
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Definitely strange!  |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 5:26 pm |
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Cathy
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That is wierd! But I'm sure nature has it's own reasoning behind it! |
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Wednesday January 4, 2006 6:07 pm |
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Cheeta
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Strange very true, but they must have a reason behind it...
Just a quick update, there's now three eggs.. Except mama laid the third egg out of the box. hmmmm, I really don't understand these quails...... |
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Thursday January 5, 2006 3:42 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
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Third egg out of the box? That's sad.. Can't you lay it in there? Or doesn't that make sense? |
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Thursday January 19, 2006 1:53 pm |
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Cheeta
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Well I've now got six eggs, but she kinda stopped laying eggs about a week ago, so I don't think she'll be laying eggs again for alittle while. I have a feeling it's because of the budgies being so nosy, and is constantly scaring the quails which is why she isn't sitting. |
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Thursday January 19, 2006 2:04 pm |
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Fluffy Sue
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Ohhh so sorry to hear that it's probably because of the nosey budgies. Do they bother her a lot? |
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Thursday January 19, 2006 3:19 pm |
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