help quails had chicks without incubator

[lisajmuir]

Yes Corturnix quails. since seperating there is less fighting ...... but the black n white male is brutal with the females when he wants "some"

 

[kingmt]

If you release him you killing him anyways. Besides it is probably against the law.

 

[lisajmuir]

for now hes happy with his one female in another space in the avairy. my 9 year old daughter would never let me release him anyways. hes friendly..... but so is the other male. so for now they both are happy.

 

[kingmt]

Have you read enough of this forum to realize the one male is almost certain to kill one female? & even one make will most likely kill only two female?

 

[7L Farm]

I let bob whites out of their flight pen to run around my shack. They have hatched their own eggs & I've seen them bring their clutch up to the house, Not sure if they made it but yes they can hatch their own eggs. I guess if you let your coturnix out at an early age they would do the same. Never had them hatch in the pen though & I've tried before.

 

[dc3085]

Coturnix are migratory, if you leave them out they will migrate. They also have thousands of years of domestication that has removed most of their instincts to flee predators.

 

[7L Farm]

The op above this post is probably right. I have coturnix but never have let them out because they live in such a small pen they can't fly very good. My bob whites live in a giant flight pen & are conditioned for flight.

 

[dc3085]

You'll find the migratory nature and patterns of coturnix discussed in all of these articles.

http://www.raco.cat/index.php/ABC/article/viewFile/259219/346481
https://zooparis.wikispaces.com/Japanese+Quail
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/wildbirds/hunting/docs/Quail EU_ MP.pdf