The big issue for your neighbors is going to be flies. I am dealing with this right now and I live in the suburbs. It has been very labor intensive to keep the flies down in the warmer weather, even with frequent cleaning and poop removal and other things that were suggested as natural bug...
Hmm I will have to keep and eye out and see if any more show up. The next door neighbors know I have quail and they thought it was one of mine. I was like, no, mine are not that pretty and they are all shut up in the coop.
I'm in AZ and they are illegal to own here. You are right it's a Gambels quail. It had the distinctive chest markings. I have seen them in the desert but never this deep in the city and suburbs.
I finally captured a picture of him. I have all female Conturnix quails, and I live in the suburbs. In 15 years of living here, I have never seen a wild quail. And now I have seen this guy twice. I wonder where he lives and how he got so far into the surburbs?
Dark purple means lack of circulation, which means that tissue is dying and will soon rot and it will be an awful end. Please either put it down or take it to a vet.
My quail only get a water change once a day and it stays clean. I use a standard chicken waterer and put it on bricks. It stays above their rear ends so poop never gets in the water.
I tried nipples and they loved it so much they were emptying those things out in like 15 minutes, just for the...
I have seen my quail try to catch flies, but the flies are faster. :-) They did enjoy the ants from the ant-infested dog dish that I put in the coop for them to clean off.
I used this at first because it was all I could find at the time. It was extremely expensive. When I resold some of my unwanted male chicks to a breeder I saw that my chicks were a lot smaller than his chicks of the same age. He then pointed me to the Purina game bird feed that was 30% protein...
I just had a thread about this a couple weeks ago. Quail stink!!
My biggest success has been to clean up all traces of poo daily and dispose of it in a covered trash can. I also pour some cleaner under their coop because I have it on a concrete slab. I have heard that having some boards under...
The guy I bought mine from I think charged $2 for the tiny chicks and $3 for the ones that were old enough to be sexed. Those were for the regular brown coturnix. He charged a bit more for the white ones. I am not sure how much he charged for the ones that were ready to be eaten.
I finally got a handle on this fly problem. :-) The coop smells better than ever and it only takes about 10 minutes of my time.
So I got rid of the deep litter for the summer (too darned hot right now). I have newspapers on the bottom of the cage. I have three nest boxes with sawdust that they...