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I don't have any yet, but my plan is to have 8 breeder females and 2 roos in 2 cages, then have 8-10 cages with egg layer females, 10 per cage. The males will be chosen from the breeder cage with the better egg laying hens and the individual males will be chosen by size and ease of gender...

I don't know specifically with birds, but for horses, if you are adding light to prevent a winter coat or start them shedding out early, they say a rule of thumb to be sure it is bright enough is to sit in the darkest corner of the stall and if you can comfortably read a newspaper then it's...

I don't have quail yet, but I've been looking into them and read this whole thread. I think yours are too young to tell still, from what I've seen you can start being able to tell on the brown ones when they are around 4 weeks old. The white ones, you have to wait until they are breeding age...

I wouldn't free range them, one, these birds have been in captivity (as a species) for so long that their most basic instincts are disappearing such as laying eggs in a nest and hatching young, I would imagine that their other instincts are also pretty much gone at this point so chances that...