Pros: Matures fast, great layers, excellent meat
Cons: None that I can think of!
Pros: Cute, Easy to Keep, Lovely calls, Clever.
Cons: Flighty, Tiny Chicks, Fast.
Pros: Are meat and egg mature at 6 weeks
“ These birds are lovely. If you train them up well, they'll be your friend for life, and if not, they will refuse to fly or even boink if you clip them. They need quite exact conditions to get them to lay, but put them in a quiet spot with plenty of cover, and you will be rewarded with plenty of eggs, or even chicks. No matter what anyone tells you, they will not die if not kept...” --TehLizardKing
“ I don't really see all this frailty everyone talks about. I hatched out 75 and at 3 weeks old I put them in a grow out pen. The temp is in the high 50's and 60's. I have a heat lamp on one end of the pen but they quit using it and just do what nature calls them to do, covey up. I lost 3 out of the hatch, from piling up on one another I suspect. This is the first time I have hatched ...” --Bobaroni
“ I have 2 males and am trying to find them some girls, really cute to watch, have to make sure they get a high protein food. ” --chickndoglover
“ Adorable little birds. I have a pair and plan to incubate the eggs this spring. They are very amusing and jump around but are quite quiet. They leap into the air when startled so make sure their cage is secure. They do not roost at night so once they are out of the cage they won't come back and are easy prey to predators. My male is not aggressive and are they quite...” --vancouver chicks
“ Coturnix quail are part of the "Old World Quail," a term used to describe quail in the phasianidae family of birds. Coturnix Quail, the Chinese Blue Breasted "Button" Quail, and the African Harlequin Quail are classified in the "Old World Quail" grouping. The Wild European coturnix, also classified as Coturnix coturnix (common quail), have been widely distributed throughout Asia, Africa,...” --Stellar
“ The jumbo Brown Couturnix are my favorite bird breed by far. At 6 weeks old they start laying eggs and boy do they ever lay well. You can also butcher them at 6 weeks old and get about a half pound of meat which is alot for quail. Their mating calls sound neat and they are very calm compared to alot of quail breeds. ” --quadchick77
“ i want it i go hunting for them every summer the taste good i want five so i can just shoot them with my bow in my back yard ” --cooguy1234567
Scaled Quail have been kept in captivity for several decades. These small galliformes natural range include Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and western and central Texas into Mexico to Jalisco, Guanajuato, Queretaru, Hidalgo, and Tamaulipas. It has been introduced to Hawaii, Washington, Nevada, and Nebraska, but is only considered established in central Washington and eastern...
