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    Lost Gambel quail . Frightened and flew away

    As what raingarden has suggested, it would be a lot easier if Joey had another companion Gambels quail - as the other one will call her back. When you say you are calling, what do you mean? Do you mean "Joey, here Joey" or were you referring to using an audio "chi-ca-ca-go"? Your best bet would...
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    How Many Eggs do California Quail Lay a Year

    Not big enough. Just roughly 3,100 sq. ft.
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    How Many Eggs do California Quail Lay a Year

    The key is the mother bird. I clip the primary feathers off of my breeder hens and they free roam in my yard. Once she is paired with a male, he (being completely free to leave and never return - i.e. his flight feathers are not clipped) will never leave her. When she hatches her chicks in my...
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    How Many Eggs do California Quail Lay a Year

    No, I do not call them back. After they live in my yard for some time (via clipping their primary feathers), they recognize my yard as their territory (plus, I put out food and water for them and so that is helpful). When they regrow their primary flight feathers, they sometimes do fly into my...
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    How Many Eggs do California Quail Lay a Year

    How many eggs they lay depends on whether you pull the eggs. If you pull eggs, they'll continue to lay (don't know how many but I will go with what others have said: 25-40 eggs per year). If you don't pull the eggs, they'll stop at around 15 eggs and start incubation (provided that they content...
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    California Quail Celling Height HELP!

    What ever height you prefer for the ceiling is up to you. I recommend soft padding on top so they don't break their necks going up.
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    California Quail Celling Height HELP!

    Unless you are specifically getting calm birds, your birds will likely be very skittish. If skittish, yes, they'll dart straight up and there will be lots of pacing back and forth.
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    Membrane covered chick pipped 14 hours ago with no progress

    The case is situational based on species. In your case, it looks like you have coturnix and so it should have hatched out along with the others; the chick is probably stuck inside. I say situational because if you were hatching mountain quail, I would say to leave it be since they are known to...
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    Gambels Quail Hatching Eggs

    How are you getting eggs right now in the winter? They are supposed to start laying in the spring.
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    Blue scale

    My understanding is that you do not need a domesticated game bird breeder license for blue scaled quail, because they do not live here in California; the license only covers native and naturalized gamebirds. You only need the license for your California quail.
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    Richardson strain Indian Red Jungle fowl

    Have you tried messaging some of the members in Jungle Fowl Breeders on Facebook? It's worth a try, but I think there's a better chance there than here.
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    Green Jungle Fowl feathers

    The term "scale" was likely used to describe the feathers. It does not mean that the scales are hard like on a reptile.
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    Jungle Fowl

    Due to the sensitive nature of those eggs, shipped eggs are no good and people who keep any of the junglefowl species usually will not sell eggs. You might get away with it only if there was someone living close to you, but then again, eggs are only laid in the spring. Your best bet would be to...
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    Integrating Gambel's Quail Juveniles

    Interesting to hear. I would think that it is 8 younger ones who will get bullied. Either way, Gambel's quail are social birds and so it'll work out eventually (until spring that is).
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    Start a sustained breeding population loose in neighborhood

    In addition to what others have said, I have 2 things for you to also consider: (1) In case you are not aware, the natural distribution of Mountain quail ranges from Washington south to Baja California, and scientists have divided up the Mountain quail populations into multiple subspecies based...
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