Can you keep chickens/quail/ducks together?

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Domesticated chickens, and ducks were not living for past centuries in the wild, they,ve been domesticated for a while and by natural selection they are immune to many fowls deceases.

Wild birds like quail are not.

You are showing total ignorance and personal irresponsibility bragging about keeping domestic fowl with wild birds, cause

"YOU DON'T GIVE A DAM"

One infected quail released intentionally or not into a wild can spread deadly decease among thousands of other wild bird species, and wipe out local wild birds populaton.


Just cause someone : "Does not give a dam"
 
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First of all I didnt even cuss,I said Im not going to change a darn thing.

Second I said these animals have been living in the wild for centuries.you never seen a wild duck?a wild chicken or turkey?wild quail?

Did I even say I have wild birds at all? much less living with my birds?

get a grip, I breed quail from a domestic seller of domestic birds.

So in your eyes I am the cause or future cause of mass bird devastaion?

Grab a clue.
 
Will Coturnix quail give geese and ducks diseases? I have a few Coturnix and I'd like to keep them in the barn with my ducks and geese during the winter. The quail are in rabbit type cages off the ground...the geese and ducks would be beside them, but not directly under them.
 
Fortunately I have a large enough coop/aviary to keep both snowflakes and mallards together. I just provide what's needed for both. Water for ducks and lots of tall grasses and dry area for quail. They do beautifully together. No aggressive behavior at all. But I tend to their daily needs and make for a happy home! I do clean coop daily! Ducks are messy lil darlins!! Ps... I'm in the SALEM OREGON area. Anyone have an incubator for sale? (Sm) Happy day!!
 
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Hi
I have all three in question and they live very happily together but at first when i started breeding for meet the mums and dads wouldn't get on but from chicks they where together at hatching and seem they dont mind so yes they can depends on they're age
 
This is all very interesting. And funny because I had just posted in the quail area because I'm thinking of putting quail in my duck house but OFF the ground. My ducks sleep in a building at night that's about 120 square feet and 6 feet tall and I thought about building the quail a cage about 3-4 feet off the ground. It may be a terrible idea, that's why I asked their advice. I WISH I had a huge aviary- I LOVE those. I scour Craigslist but the ones I come across are usually several thousand dollars. I wish I could keep ornamental pheasants in one.
 

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