When will they start crowing and what does it sound like?

[ThaJuicyJuice]

I hatched A&M quail 5 weeks ago, and they have grown by leaps and bounds. I was wondering when should I be able to tell the males and females apart? I am particularly interested in what the crow sounds like. There doesn't seem to be many videos of it on youtube.

Some of them have had the feathers pulled from the top of their heads, is this a sign of aggression or perhaps the males pushing around the quail hens?

 

[Robo]

Raah rah rahh, oh and what da dat!

 

[ThaJuicyJuice]

I just heard the sound on youtube. Not too loud. I don't think I've heard that yet, though.

 

[joe125]

Coturnix roos generally start crowing at around 4 weeks of age. If they are LOUD or not depends on the person hearing it. I can hear my birds crowing from about a 1/4 mile away, but I know the sound. To everyone else in the neighborhood, they are just wild birds.

 

[ChickenChaps]

I describe the crowing sound of the corturnix as squeezing the end of a ketchup bottle.

Sounds like a juicy wet fart.

 

[Robo]

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The poor guy who walks his dog over to see my rabbits thinks their mockingbirds!

 

[Whiskey Bay]

I actually love to here that screwed up whistle of theirs.Wish my chickens could do it..lol.. Everybody always trips out on the noise.The cracked out neighbors down the road thought something was 'in the woods'...lol... But I guess with probly a hundred roos,it can sound pretty wicked.Add the peacock next door screaming for a woman,and the turkey gobblin..and you get a regular crackheads nightmare...lol..... Chupacabra and cheedans..!!!!..lol.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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They are very loud if you're close...my first ever coturnix hatch resulted in 2 male A&Ms...it was November. Needless to say, they were inside for quite a while and they'd let me know they were there every time I went to feed them. I'm surprised they didn't learn how to talk..their first words would have been "shut up stupid birds!"

 

[MobyQuail]

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when I chose my first "A&Ms" from the local breeder here, she advised me to look for the feather-scalped heads as a sign of females that were being mounted/mated.

I chose 4 such birds and she was right or I was lucky- they are all females.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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when I chose my first "A&Ms" from the local breeder here, she advised me to look for the feather-scalped heads as a sign of females that were being mounted/mated.

I chose 4 such birds and she was right or I was lucky- they are all females.

You got lucky