Arizona Chickens

[parentwarrior]

Grrr...Just wrote a huge post then click backspace twice and removed it all...

Quail: I have seen many posts here about quail but way before I became interested. I am now in the planning phase and am getting serious before winter comes.

What kind have you had? What was the purpose (pet/eggs/meat)? What kind of housing did you have for them?

What is the purpose of button quail? They are really cute?

Can you house multiple quail species together? Will they cross breed?

Have thought about gamblers quail but can't find the permit information on the fish and wildlife site.

Any info would be helpf

My female quail was a rescue from a wildlife rescue place. I cannot remember her breed but it is not one locally found and is not one that needs a permit. She lays eggs but I don't eat them. I have an outside steel cage about 6' by 18' with a dirt floor so I was asked to keep her. She was together with a very cute tiny white button quail that had a deformed leg (stuck out sideways) but the button quail disappeared as strange as that sounds. She was just gone from the cage one day. I could never find her. I have mine in an enclosed outside cage with my chickens at the moment. I kept them together since they were chicks, a few days old. At first I had the new chicks in a plastic tub with a heat lamp on only at night. It was warm during the day. This was April/May. When the chicks got big enough to jump out, I turned the tub on the side so they could still sleep in it at night and gave them free run of the cage. She took to the chicks and they all slept together on a log after a while. They do not sleep together anymore but they all do well together. I built a new cage and coop and all are in there now. I only have a special needs sparrow in my old cage. She falls over when she looks up...LOL I rescued her as a baby and syringed fed her.
Kris

 

[itsredcandy]

My female quail was a rescue from a wildlife rescue place. I cannot remember her breed but it is not one locally found and is not one that needs a permit. She lays eggs but I don't eat them. I have an outside steel cage about 6' by 18' with a dirt floor so I was asked to keep her. She was together with a very cute tiny white button quail that had a deformed leg (stuck out sideways) but the button quail disappeared as strange as that sounds. She was just gone from the cage one day. I could never find her. I have mine in an enclosed outside cage with my chickens at the moment. I kept them together since they were chicks, a few days old. At first I had the new chicks in a plastic tub with a heat lamp on only at night. It was warm during the day. This was April/May. When the chicks got big enough to jump out, I turned the tub on the side so they could still sleep in it at night and gave them free run of the cage. She took to the chicks and they all slept together on a log after a while. They do not sleep together anymore but they all do well together. I built a new cage and coop and all are in there now. I only have a special needs sparrow in my old cage. She falls over when she looks up...LOL I rescued her as a baby and syringed fed her.
Kris

That's cool. You're screen name should be the Bird Rescuer )

 

[parentwarrior]

That's cool. You're screen name should be the Bird Rescuer )

Good idea! My husband is not too happy about my rescuing hobby. Hence the outside cages to get them out of my house. LOL Saw this on Face book at http://www.facebook.com/ChickenJunkie...too funny!
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[pupeluv]

Just got my first egg from my dutch bantams! I'm ridiculously excited. Only 9 more & I can make an omelette.

 

[parentwarrior]

Just got my first egg from my dutch bantams! I'm ridiculously excited. Only 9 more & I can make an omelette.

That is so cool! I am waiting for mine still. Did they lay it in the nest box?
Kris

 

[Drjennidvm]

FINALLY, 3 eggs from the 3 - 24 wk old pullets, 2 Barred Rocks and a Blue Andalusian my girls are so grown up! Now just waiting on the 2 -16 wk old Gold Sexlinks.

 

[Drjennidvm]

 

[Mikey D]

Well Hoppy is back. She was AWOL for 2 days & I found her by her solitary confinement cage this morning when I came back from an emergency chicken feed run.

Tonight she was sleeping in the coop (all beat up again!) when I went to shut them in.

I put her in the sink and was going to let her sleep there tonight but the Control Tower disallowed that flight path.

She is in a small tote on the floor with a mug of water an an oatmeal muffin.

Poor Hoppy.

 

[fmk602]

First week back from vacation. Didn't lose a single girl! A couple garden tragedies, but that is to be expected with the garden! Last couple days have been 6/6. Six hens 6 eggs! I am surprised because my blue egg layer previously laid about 2 a week. Guess she is feeling left out!

My condolences to those who have had losses and congrats to those who have new members to their flocks!

BTW Rocky has just a tiny limp to this day I have no idea what happened!

 

[fmk602]

FINALLY, 3 eggs from the 3 - 24 wk old pullets, 2 Barred Rocks and a Blue Andalusian my girls are so grown up! Now just waiting on the 2 -16 wk old Gold Sexlinks.

Goldie, my gold sex, link was the first to lay at about 16 wks old. So yours may be laying soon too.

Goldie is a PRODUCER! Actually 5 of them have been almost dailies with the occasional rest day. But Goldie will lay any where under any condition! When I separated her out for bad behavior, she continued to lay in the cage with only one rest day. When I separated poor Rocky, she did not lay a single egg that week until she went back in the coop.