I happened upon an instagram page featuring a friendly tame house quail. (@fathetfarms)
Looking at types of quail online, I figured out that it is a Mearns / Montezuma quail.
I've become fascinated with the idea of a tame pet quail, but I'm wondering if this is actually something that is doable...
Hello people of Backyard Chickens. I have one elderly (>3 y.o.) quail hen, Tsapa, who is left after her flock-mates passed away. I can't continue the cycle of getting new quails, so Ill take care of Tsapa and that'll be that. My concern is that she seems lonely: isn't active, doesn't eat salad...
The other Quail is a tame female coturnix quail named Oak, last year her only friend another female quail died, we planned on getting her another quail but decided not to, recently I haven't been able to give her all of my attention and I know Oak gets lonely and she is a social bird, so we plan...
I keep quails as pets, I've only had 2 birds so far and they were 2 years old. One passed away this August, leaving the other one lonely. I tried to get an old friend for her, but I couldn't find anyone who sells their older birds so I got one that's about 2 months old. I'm afraid they won't get...
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Long story short, I managed to come upon a lone Quail chick in my back yard. I have no clue how he got there and it's been nearly a week and no sign of anyone/parent coming back for him. He seemed to like me pretty well. From what I can tell it is a male California Valley Quail. This is...
I have had chickens (4 silkie hens) for a while now and decided I wanted more chicks but when I thought about it I thought, why get more chickens what about another type of bird... Then I read about quail and decided I wanted some but I have no idea what breeds to get!!! I kind of want button...
Hello everyone!
I have successfully raised a couple very tame quail for pets over the past 7 months and would like to share my methods.
Step 1: Buy eggs or use eggs from your current quail
- if you use eggs from your own quail use the eggs from your friendliest quail (or the one that's most...