Anybody quail break their neck

[410farmer]

I’ve heard this years ago and I’ve this as recently as last year. Anybody ever take their quail to a vet and it was determined they broke their neck from flying into the ceiling?
And here’s some of my eggs and processed meat from my new babies now that I’m back into the quail game

 

[cavemanrich]

Broken necks is a shortcut to have them reach stage like your second pix.
Quail cages need to be short in height, and you can have them stacked. A short cage,,,,,, and quail does not attempt to fly. A moderate height cage, and quail decides to try flying without realizing the limited height. If you want to fly your quail, I think the suggested height is like 7 or 8 feet. I can be off on those specs, but do know that a perch needs to be well before the ceiling maximum.
WISHING YOU BEST,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[TheSunflowerButterfly]

They look like they’re going dancing!

 

[410farmer]

Broken necks is a shortcut to have them reach stage like your second pix.
Quail cages need to be short in height, and you can have them stacked. A short cage,,,,,, and quail does not attempt to fly. A moderate height cage, and quail decides to try flying without realizing the limited height. If you want to fly your quail, I think the suggested height is like 7 or 8 feet. I can be off on those specs, but do know that a perch needs to be well before the ceiling maximum.
WISHING YOU BEST,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Have you had any personal experience where that actually happened. I’ve never heard of this with any other bird. My outdoor enclosure is going to be 5feet y’all for my back lol

 

[cavemanrich]

I have considered getting quail for a long time. What kept me from getting any, are a few reasons.
I only keep chickens as pets. I don't eat them. Do eat the eggs. I free-range them in my backyard when I'm outside. Other times, they are in secured run area. I would like to have the quail free range as well. The peeps that I spoke to advised me from trying that. They would fly away first chance they would get.
I would keep hens for eggs, and possibly donate those eggs to certain individuals that could only eat such eggs, and not chicken eggs.
I would not process and eat my pet quail.
So My knowledge about quail comes from much reading, and talking with individuals that do keep/raise them.
Your 5 foot enclosure may be sufficiently tall enough to keep your quail from breaking necks

 

[Quailobsessed]

I have considered getting quail for a long time. What kept me from getting any, are a few reasons.
I only keep chickens as pets. I don't eat them. Do eat the eggs. I free-range them in my backyard when I'm outside. Other times, they are in secured run area. I would like to have the quail free range as well. The peeps that I spoke to advised me from trying that. They would fly away first chance they would get.
I would keep hens for eggs, and possibly donate those eggs to certain individuals that could only eat such eggs, and not chicken eggs.
I would not process and eat my pet quail.
So My knowledge about quail comes from much reading, and talking with individuals that do keep/raise them.
Your 5 foot enclosure may be sufficiently tall enough to keep your quail from breaking necks

I free range some of my japanese quails. Mine don't really fly.

 

[Quailobsessed]

Have you had any personal experience where that actually happened. I’ve never heard of this with any other bird. My outdoor enclosure is going to be 5feet y’all for my back lol

I haven't had it happen to any japanese quails, but some of my king quails I suspect died from boinking. I've fixed that problem and it hasn't happened since though.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

I never had a broken neck till now. But ...

... I have a hutch and some Guinea pig cages as quaratine, hospital and single prison which are 50 cm in height... and I had some head injuries by bouncing birds into the ceiling.
So I put 2cm foam on the ceiling in the hutch. Never had any injury there since.

Unfortunately inpractical for the Guinea pig cages ... .

 

[SteveUK]

I free range some of my japanese quails. Mine don't really fly.

Please elaborate on the free ranging bit.

 

[mdees88]

I built one of my pens with the intention of putting a few bobwhites in there and I wanted to give them enough room to stretch their wings a bit. it is 6ft x 10ft x 3.5ft high. I added dividers in it to break it into 4 smaller 5ft x 3ft compartments because I'm keeping coturnix in it right now.

My coturnix will hop/fly in these smaller compartments right now. Mainly they run around pumping their wings just fast enough to get there feet of the ground but they usually don't fly up to the top. Occasionally they will fly a foot or two off the floor and land at the end of the cage.

One night I went out there at dark to get some feed for the chicks I had inside the house and accidently startled them. A bunch of them flushed and flew straight up into the metal roof. I was very loud and I was sure I was going to have some dead ones but I went back out in the morning and luckily they were all fine. I've only had 1 random death in this pen and I assumed it may have boinked it's head but can't be certain.

4ft is the shortest I would make the ceiling if you intend to give them room to fly and if I built this one again I might even make it 5ft. The rest of my cages are 16-18" tall and I've never had any head boinking issues. A 12" ceiling is all they really need though...

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