My quail made a nest
Hello! Amateur quail owner here. I have 6 coturnix quail that I obtained about 5 months ago. My neighbor got tired of feeding them and released them. I caught them in live traps when they came around my chicken coop looking for food. For this reason I don’t know how old they are, and I’m not really even sure how many hens/roosters I have. They all get along in a big outdoor coop and since they have a big feeder and a big waterer, they often go several days without me bothering them (they hate me.)
Anyways, my question is, should I have taken these eggs? I was so surprised when I found 2 eggs in there a few weeks ago on the ground, and now I come out today and they seem to have literally built a nest and gone to town. There was no hen with the eggs but like I said, they hate me, so they fled when I entered the coop. It seems like too many for them to be brooding on but I have no idea what I’m doing, so I thought I’d ask. They went so long without laying eggs that I thought they must be too old, but I guess not!