breeding quail

Hey friends. Hope everyone is enjoying their Monday! Happy 311 to those who like the band :) Anyways so I breed Coturnix Quail for therapy, fun and sharing with friends. 43 year old mid life crisis. Well anyways I started this journey December 2022 of incubation and actually started with...

I've been looking into raising/breeding quail myself for agessss and me and my mom have 100% decided it'd be really fun and possibly even useful to do. We were thinking about having an outdoor aviary for Japanese quail for months now, but my mom is gonna have heart surgery soon and will be in...

I have 6 female Coturnix quail which I love and have raised since hatch. They are now about a year old and I was hoping to breed them with a young non related male quail I have. They have never been under artificial light for egg laying. Is it too late for me to start incubating eggs now so I...

I'm looking for genetic wisdoms because despite many attempts I still don't feel confident with the quail calculator and I'm planning to start a new flock with a few birds that have shown awesome personalities. I have tentatively set aside: 1 Silver male 1 Italian/pharaoh male 2 Pharaoh females...

I got my start with quail last spring. Ordered 12 hatching eggs, toddler broke 1, 6 hatched, 4 lived. A lot of tragic beginner mistakes. However the eggs I ordered had some blue eggs mixed in and I had one celadon hen. That hen wedged herself behind something, got stuck, and died. Another hard...