Reviews by PoultryAddict 1

I only have one aracana so this review isnt about the entire breed, but my Star is a awesome hen.

She is a 3 year old black muff-less aracana, that lays green eggs every day and is both heat and cold hardy, that has a beautiful beetle green shine to her feathers. The only problems I've encountered are that she is a bully, even though she is only kept with one other chicken when introduced to other birds, she is excessivly mean and has a rather sharp beak. So just be careful about introduction, and they can be awesome friendly birds~!

Let me say that first off, if you don't have these quail or have ugly japanese quail,
GET SOME!

Bob's are sooo much hardier than japanese and similar breeds, much prettier, and make for better meat birds as well. So here's my story with bobwhite quail!

One day I decided I wanted meat quail, so I did the usual and went out and got some nice wire that they could'nt break their necks on, and some baling wire as well to tie it all toghter. So I made a circular run about 4 feet wide and 3 feet long, with a hole cut out in the top to access feed/water, and bricks all around the inside and outside to make it both escape proof and predator proof. (wish I had a pic) In the inside the back had a small dog house, which I filled with hay for them to go into when it snowed. Outside of their "quail coop" was some natural brush, and logs and their feeder and waterer.

The next week I went out to a game farm in western PA and bought 6 mature flight birds and 4 ring neck phesants, (to release and then hunt with my bird dog) They peeped the whole way home, while the dumb phesants threw themselves about the cardboard box and they arrived bloody and battered but alive. First I released my pheasants, which took off flying across the corn field and made me smile. Then I got the quail and put them in a old dog crate, as it was raining out and did'nt want them soaked and cold on their first night. Then the struggle began.

I looked out through the light rain and noticed 6 little quail, (2 males 4 females) casually strolling about the yard eating grass and peeping nonstop. I stared in absolute HORROR as I see my lose quail run about.
You see, if a quail is lose their is close to no chance of re-capture, they are not like chickens or even pheasants, in fact hunters have a hard time hunting them with GUNS because of their agility. So naturally, I assumed all was lost but figured, hey why not give it a try?
a struggle insued.

I go out in the rain determained, with a butterfly net in hand. I rush them from behind, swinging my weapon wildy and see immidentially this is not the way to go. So they flush to all sides of the house and for the next half hour in almost dark conditions I try to corner them against trees and brushpiles, and long story short and after some wild escaped, I end up with two females and one male secured.

I am a agile person, and a hunter, which is the ONLY reason I was able to catch the buggers. I put them inside to prevent anymore escaped.

I had these darling animals for 5 months, in which time they layed no eggs and no, I did'nt eat them. They are truly awesome creatures which require close to no care, and sadly I have not been able to find any near me in florida sense moving. My little quail were killed by a weasel that found a weak spot and dug through it, it was truly a sad day.

That was my experience, I currently have dumb japanese quail now, It's just not the same.