Hi,
I was away on holiday for a week and did not tell the people looking after my birds to check if the quail had laid eggs as it has never been a problem - however, I now have a cpq on a nest with about 10 eggs!
What do I do - should I move her and put her in a separate cage/ cardboard box with soft mesh at the top? Or leave her and trust she will sort out the others if they try to hurt her babies?
She is in an aviary with 6 other quail and 7 canaries and is in the aviary bit, not the flight bit. She was okay when I have moved them twice to clean - she just gets back on them once I have done.....
thank you in advance for any help!
Fran
PS: I tried candling them and cannot see anything at all- I think this means that they are fertile as I cannot see through them?? If they are fertile she may have been on them for up to 14 days - she has been on them the week I have been back, I didn't ask for help before as they have sometimes sat on them for a few days, but never this long!!!
I was away on holiday for a week and did not tell the people looking after my birds to check if the quail had laid eggs as it has never been a problem - however, I now have a cpq on a nest with about 10 eggs!
What do I do - should I move her and put her in a separate cage/ cardboard box with soft mesh at the top? Or leave her and trust she will sort out the others if they try to hurt her babies?
She is in an aviary with 6 other quail and 7 canaries and is in the aviary bit, not the flight bit. She was okay when I have moved them twice to clean - she just gets back on them once I have done.....
thank you in advance for any help!
Fran
PS: I tried candling them and cannot see anything at all- I think this means that they are fertile as I cannot see through them?? If they are fertile she may have been on them for up to 14 days - she has been on them the week I have been back, I didn't ask for help before as they have sometimes sat on them for a few days, but never this long!!!