My hubby's aunt sent us some quail eggs. Yay!!! We had some extra room in the incubator so
-->> thankfully a local(ish) farm had some more. Incubator full now.
And of course... I can't be trusted, so we got quail chicks too!! Lol
Hey folks!
So I got my first egg yesterday (hooray!!) after 3 weeks in their new home. Very exciting.
And then today I got a second egg (double hooray!!).
My question is, are they from the same hen? I know that hens are supposed to lay almost identical eggs (right?) so I'm confused because I...
Hey everyone!
So I have 2 male quails and 7 females in my aviary - lots of space and hidey holes provided.
I recently swapped 3 males for 3 females, although one new gal has turned out to be a guy. I was originally aiming for only 1 male, but here we are.
One of the new females came to me...
Hi everyone,
I have recently moved to the mid north coast of NSW, Australia and am looking to start a small 12-15 bird aviary for eggs and meat (if I can muster the courage for the latter!). This will be my first time owning quail.
I have done all of my research, looked into what they need and...
Hi, a few years ago me and my wife decided to get quail as we have an avid interest in quails and all animals really.
They made amazing companions, so sweet, harmless and therapeutic to be around, they cost barely any money to feed etc, so are perfect all round. Me and my wife built a fantastic...
Since I had to sadly giveaway my pet quail pepper because he could’ve killed My female Oak twice my two females feel stressed and aren’t the same so am thinking of getting a new quail chick and I plan on putting that quail in the same pen The second quail (Lilith) is also female sooo is it okay...
Sooo how old do quails have to be give them a bath, like with water, also! if am correct you will usually give them a dust bath first soo how old for both of these Thanks if you respond and give your input means a bunch!:D
Am currently about to get a Cortunix Jumbo Texas Quail about a week old I was wondering how long they can last am getting two females as pets and if they lay eggs every once and a while great but I don’t want to stress them soo.. I won’t be stressing out my quail I just want some as pets:thumbsup
So my father an I plan on getting a new pet quail in a week or so we don’t plan on hatching it we only plan on buying a few how many Cortunix quail should we get? I am aware old world quail are very social but am not sure on how many maybe two? Am not really sure also do anyone of you have any...
I am learning about raising quail for eggs, meat and fun. I have a small home in NE PA, with 2 dogs and a bunch of Holland Lop rabbits. I look forward to learning more about cortunix quail. I am no stranger to raising birds as house pets so raising quail will be a new adventure!
I have a clutch of 9 cortunix quail, and 2 button quail that are about 5 days old. I was getting my second brooder ready to separate the button quail and cortunix quail but I am wondering what temp do they need to be at 1week 2 week and so on.
Hi Guys! I have chickens outside and now I want to have some Japanese quail in the house. The purpose would be for enjoyment and eggs! After much googling and consideration, I plan to get a large enclosure similar to a guinea pig or chinchilla cage for them, about 2'Hx2W'x7'L. It will have a...
I have four quails in one of my pens. One is clearly male, brown chest and one is female laying egg.
These other two im not sure of. Would like to get some help identifying genders from photos.
Bird 1
Bird 2