Can a chicken hatch quail?

[Annastin]

Can chicken hatch quail and raise them?

 

[nchls school]

Below is a serama bantam with her newly hatched chicks; Japanese quail.

I did put a couple white dummy eggs with the speckled quail eggs to help fool the hen.

 

[nchls school]

All the chicks were raised to maturity.

 

[MGG]

I've heard they can transmit diseases, but like @nchls school said it's possible. Having a hen incubate the eggs and then brooding them indoors or seperated from the hen is probably the safest.

 

[nchls school]

The serama hen and quail chicks were kept separate and indoors. Japanese quail grow fast; by the time they were two weeks old they were self-sufficient. I once had a Japanese quail hen (one the bantam raised) brood and raised her chicks twice. Both times she left the chicks at 10 days of age.

 

[VictoriaTemple]

Wow! This is great to know! I wonder how a Silkie would do, would she maybe keep the chicks too long?