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I am a relatively new owner aswell. Looking at your pen I do think they will need the run covered to give them protection from wind and rain. Also I think you need mesh base to stop rats and fox digging in. Mine are indoors but I put them outside if the weather is nice. I think the trouble I...

UPDATE on my ' aggressive' male ( I call him Joe) . After having the female separated, I took the advice and put her back in and took Joe out, but I then saw the other two females giving her a hard time. I replaced her with joe and they were happy again. Next day weather was quite pleasant...

Thank you for your interesting reply. My quail are about 6 months old now. This morning I put male back in with females and observed he was picking on a particular female. I took her out and all was peaceful again. I then extended thier area and put more things in so they had more privacy. This...

My male and three coturnix hens have lived together happily for months, but tonight he has them all cowering in fear. He is crowing madly, he has always mated with them previously and they accepted this, but suddenly he is terrifying them and has them stressed. I have removed him until I can...

Just wondering if it's normal beh:/aviour for quail to lay eggs after dark? I have hens and they usually lay early morning , just wonded if it's only mine or if that is the nature of the bird.

Wow, you were lucky to catch your little bird again, I thought you were going to say it was lost. Iv never looked at my quail ( coturnix) private parts, but fortunately I know who the male is so I will save that delight for another day.

I didn't know they could eat or liked banana, I will try some. As you say if they were turkey size I would have no flesh left on my hand, they have very sharp beaks even though I have cuttlefish in for them to peck at.

Silly me, I started feeding my quail live meal worm from my hand to get them used to me, but now when I put my hand in their enclose to change water ect, the are like piranhas !! they dive into my palm and furiously peck and twist my skin in a feeding frenzy. I have a whole bunch of quail...

How interesting and fascinating. I'm am new to keeping quail and love my little birds, if they made more I would be pleased.