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The jumbo browns would be your best bet for large quail. We offer these in our line. Nice big dual purpose birds for eggs and meat.

Coturnix do not fly. They do not perch. They are ground dwellers. It is not recommended to house them with chicken due to disease transference. ETA: they fly but it's more to run away like fly, they cannot sustain it.

It's good stuff for sure I just don't agree with some genetics and coloring. But everyone can disagree once in awhile Good stuff

I am thinking of the Italian males with their red to beige head so my appologies. As we don't have standards and people calling the birds incorrectly it's hard to help. I have most of the basic info on my website with photos. There is about 20+ varieties within the Coturnix in terms of color...

Quote: Red head is the same as Italian

This is good novice info, lots of corrections needed since its outdated some.

Chickens can carry diseases that quail can catch which can be detrimental, such as mycoplasmas (coryza). If you want to raise quail, hatch them in an incubator (ok with chicken eggs), raise them in their own cages and hutches (no sharing with chicken).

Quote: I agree....some of the historical stuff is lagging a bit.

Hoping the sticky gets corrected some I put the corrections in but why bother if no one is interested in what I say.

OK, well here is the beginning. I will correct more as I have time Wild European Coturnix "common quail" were widely distributed in Europe, Africa, and Asia. They were classified as Coturnix coturnix including several subspecies. The Japanese Quail Coturnix japonica are IDENTICAL to the...

Some information is incorrect on this, so look at a couple of sources not just this one