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Recent content by bus2325
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Bobwhite Quail can make excellent house pets.
That is adorable. I only wished my Bobwhites were that tame. Hatched from the incubator, personally hand raised and fed but to this day, nearly 11 weeks on, they still crouch low - ready to spring away and are exceptionally wary whenever the lights are turned on or if I approached their box... -
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Which Coturnix to get?
I love Tibetans and Rosettas. Great colors and fantastic temperament. They seem to be more open to handling, more assertive and far less skittish when introduced to other quails or new people. -
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Coturnix Indoors(Caging/smell)
As someone who has coturnixes & bobwhite quails indoors, I can tell you that how badly they smell depends on: 1. floor space: the more floor space per bird the better; over-crowding is great for generating strong concentrations of ammonia gases and other unpleasant odors 2. ventilation quality... -
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Quail Bedding Issue
Ahh... bugger.. I was planning to change the floor of my quail pens to wire in order to save on bedding costs. Paper bedding isn't cheap & whilst hemp here is cheaper, the ones sold here look like sharp splinter hazards that are certainly small enough to be swallowed by even day old quail... -
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roo over-breeding its favorite hen
My roo seems to calm down when he is able to see his favorite hen. Yours might be similar especially if he thinks he's bonded with her. Where roo crowings are concerned, roos seem to react to other roos' crowings, even if they were audio recordings from Youtube clips! I once triggered a series... -
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My bobwhite covey & the coturnix quail with an identity crisis
Egg layers here have immunity from freezer camp or any sorts of premature Earth leaving procedures. Logistics is an issue but... I've got no choice. I am still surprised to see her taking on the alpha hen, which is about 50% larger & heavier than she is... but then, if that rogue pullet could... -
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roo over-breeding its favorite hen
Not being able to see each other - I think that's the problem. Merely letting your roo see his favorite hen may allow peace on earth to reign. He won't have physical access to overbreed her but visual access might be good enough. -
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roo over-breeding its favorite hen
Somewhat of a similar experience here. When his favorite hen was taken away, my male roo crowed incessantly, as he probably suffered separation anxiety. Eventually his favorite hen started chirping away (jip-jip...jip-jip..jip-jip). I then used a separator, which some here also recommend - that... -
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Male coturnix attacking all other females
Thanks for all your replies. As that's the only male I've got, culling is a no-go. I tried the separator idea once after he started crowing loudly & incessantly throughout the night when I removed his hen out of his box & out of his sight. I then had to put in a transparent box separator &... -
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Is this a quail in distress noise? What is this??
Do you have a recording of the noise? That would be helpful. -
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Male coturnix attacking all other females
Hi all, I have a male Rosetta quail who appears to have a "monogamous" relationship with a female pharaoh coturnix - they hatched together. He seems to be obsessed with her & is always very close by. The female is clearly over-bred based on the amount of head feathers she has lost. I tried to... -
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My bobwhite covey & the coturnix quail with an identity crisis
Just an update - unsuccessful "re-introduction" of my pullet coturnix to her kind. Within 10 minutes, she "played" really rough & attacked several coturnix quail hens, including what I thought was the alpha female. Since they were eggs layers & I didn't want to stress them out, I had to return... -
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My bobwhite covey & the coturnix quail with an identity crisis
I am actually thinking of the sole coturnix chick mimicking its bobwhite nest mates in its behavior. It would be interesting to see if it can actually start behaving more like a coturnix when/if it ever gets re-introduced to the adult coturnixes. Really hedging on this gamble. -
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My bobwhite covey & the coturnix quail with an identity crisis
Thanks for your insight. I am still surprised to see the coturnix chick actually behaving like its bobwhite nest mates, whereas most of my other adult coturnixes will tolerate petting and fairly lengthy handling. Seems to be a learned behavior. -
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My bobwhite covey & the coturnix quail with an identity crisis
Hi all, having been inspired by the wonderful posters here at BYC, I recently started rearing coturnix quails. I know this is going to sound silly but I have been rearing my 7 bobwhite chicks alongside a coturnix quail chick in the same brooder box. That coturnix chick came from the only viable...
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