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Amazing, that you've learned to train your quail:-) We keep ours penned,and I don't have any problems with behavioral issues with me, except an occasional male who likes to give me a peck when I open the pen door. They are so tiny, that doesn't phase me. I just pick up the little culprit and...

same here. And mine get only gam burd feed from TSC & occasionally oyster shell, although ng with theur daily water, of course, and dust baths, which I swear makes them lay better bc that's where they prefer to lay the eggs. Their dust baths consist of peat moss, play sand (from Lowe's) and a...

It's hard not to fall in love with them. I just set my mind to the fact that they are here to give us eggs and feed us. But I do have a few favorite bunnies and we don't process the chickens or ducks. I fear my mean gander is working his way closer to the freezer daily though. Good luck with...

Cortinix quail are extremely easy to process. I would suggest if hubby feels he can't process them, not to try a larger bird or animal for meat. Perhaps you could do the quail yourself. I am just learning this processing thing myself. What I did is to see if I had the stomach for it, was to...

We do. Coutinix quail. We have 3 pens we call the senior,junior & whites. Named so bc our original male and hens comprised our oldest group,but they all are deceased now. Their first offspring comprised the junior group. Then I purchased a white roo and 2 white hens comprising the 3rd group. Now...

Here's the pic of our white quail. Guess only one pic per post will load:)

yes, she is very wrong. Beaks in eggs-no way. Relax and enjoy your quail and their eggs. I love, love, love my little quail. I keep 1 male to about 6 females, but my white quail are mixed gender as I have not separated them at all.W[/IMG]When we want more, we incubate the eggs.Here's pix of my...

Same here. We keep our males with our females too. And we love the taste of fresh quail eggs. They make the best egg salad ever, and deviled eggs... oh my yes!!

I raise both the white and regular Cortinix quail. I don't rely on looking at the feather patterns on the brown ones, and, of course, we can't do that with the whites. I vent sex all my quail. It's super easy. Males have a large, bulbous vent. Females do not, and they have an obvious female slit...

Nice job done on the quail pen:)

The second picture in this post is of my boyfriends female bobwhite Quail Mrs.white...she lost her boyfriend a few months ago and she got depressed so she's been with the coturnix since then and has especially bonded with one of my older girls. They sleep snuggled up together and share dust...

Caeti21, hi. It sounds like your set up is similar to mine. We also have raised pens. Easier on my old back:)

I put dust baths in my pens. They go crazy for it. I change it out every day. It's so fun to watch them rolling around in it. And my girls like to lay their eggs in the soft dirt mixture. I use a black, heavy duty plastic oil change pan. I was lucky to find them at The Dollar Store, but you can...

That's great:) Congratulations!

I certainly am no expert, but I can tell you from experience that Cortinix quail can fly pretty high as we've lost a couple of them that fell out of the pen when the door was open and flew over a 6 foot fence into a neighbor's yard. And the little cuties are fast and hard to catch at times...

I keep my boys separated from my girls except for my senior quail which are 4 girls to 1 male. But we are going to soon incubate more eggs for the BYC Halloween countdown, so the males will be processed leaving us with the seniors and my white quail 3-1;then my junior girls with 1 male. I may...

Aww how cute:)

Aww, that is so sweet:)

I totally agree with this. My birds are all so tame, bc I pet them every day,and talk to them. If one occasionally falls out of the pen when I have the door open, it will stand still for me to pick it up. I do have 1 white male, my senior male, who likes to peck me, but I play a little game with...