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HI, I'm new here and to chicken/quail keeping in general! Here's my question...
We live in a rented house and we're not sure whether to opt for pekin bantam chickens or Quail.
We want something very tame to ease us into keeping poultry and have heard pekin bantams are ideal, however we live in a city so our garden is small, concreted and our neighbours are very close and get annoyed by noise easily (though they make enough themselves!) so we're thinking chickens might be a little noisy/big.
A few friends have had quail previously, a friend currently keeps chinese painted quail inside but has advised against those as they're quite flighty.
What's the best breed to go for if we want something tame that'll produce a few eggs a week each and take up little space? I've seen Coturnix are tame but that they get to the size of pigeons(?) which sounds a bit big for us, how much space do they need and what type of enclosure? (does anyone have any photos?)
Is there a smaller breed that's similar? What sort of space do they need?
We'd have to buy hatching eggs so what can be done with excess males? As we'd only want to keep females.
Is it possible to keep pekin bantams in the house and let them outside during the day? How much space would they need at night and then how big a space for a run during the day? Is there a better breed for keeping indoors that's as tame as pekin bantams? I imagine keeping chickens indoors is smelly and probably not the best for them?
Please excuse my ignorance, we're completely new to this, any help/advice is very much appreciated!
We live in a rented house and we're not sure whether to opt for pekin bantam chickens or Quail.
We want something very tame to ease us into keeping poultry and have heard pekin bantams are ideal, however we live in a city so our garden is small, concreted and our neighbours are very close and get annoyed by noise easily (though they make enough themselves!) so we're thinking chickens might be a little noisy/big.
A few friends have had quail previously, a friend currently keeps chinese painted quail inside but has advised against those as they're quite flighty.
What's the best breed to go for if we want something tame that'll produce a few eggs a week each and take up little space? I've seen Coturnix are tame but that they get to the size of pigeons(?) which sounds a bit big for us, how much space do they need and what type of enclosure? (does anyone have any photos?)
Is there a smaller breed that's similar? What sort of space do they need?
We'd have to buy hatching eggs so what can be done with excess males? As we'd only want to keep females.
Is it possible to keep pekin bantams in the house and let them outside during the day? How much space would they need at night and then how big a space for a run during the day? Is there a better breed for keeping indoors that's as tame as pekin bantams? I imagine keeping chickens indoors is smelly and probably not the best for them?
Please excuse my ignorance, we're completely new to this, any help/advice is very much appreciated!
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