Can I keep a few Bob White Quail with my chickens?

[tabitha.h]

 

[The Moonshiner]

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Is this your "quail/chicken hybrid"?

You mention dime sized at few days old.
Those look bigger then dime sized. Bigger then our old english bantams and modern game bantams at hatch.

 

[tabitha.h]

Is this your "quail/chicken hybrid"?

You mention dime sized at few days old.
Those look bigger then dime sized. Bigger then our old english bantams and modern game bantams at hatch.

No, ok so I got them from a local here she had hatched them. I went in to get older quails for laying eggs. I saw these and they were tiny. Like a quail baby. She said they were just hatched and taken out of the broader. I thought they were adorable so I took 4 out of 5 in. She said they were mixed Bob whites. I didn't realize she meant with chicken lol. So basically they came from green quail eggs. Now they are older. It's been a few weeks. They are half the size of my corturnix quails that are about 7 weeks I thought they were Bob whites since I've never had those types before...until I saw the red thing on thier head. If that makes sense. Basically born like a quail growing like a tiny chicken. So far anyways. Idk what the next step is. I'll have to play it by ear.

 

[The Moonshiner]

So the pic with chick in hand are not the quail/chickens?

 

[tabitha.h]

So the pic with chick in hand are not the quail/chickens?

Why would I post an irrelevant pic? Of course they are.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Why would I post an irrelevant pic? Of course they are.

In my first post I quoted the pics and asked if that was them.
You answered "no" so I was confused .

 

[tabitha.h]

Yes the pics are them. There's one of them as a baby..few days old and then a pic of several I took yesterday. The no was becouse you said that they were big for a quail. No they were not. They were tiny.

 

[paneubert]

The no was becouse you said that they were big for a quail. No they were not. They were tiny.

The confusion is probably because most people have never seen a dime sized bob or coturnix baby. Especially when you add the claim "at a few days". Button quail? Sure. Even my tiny runt of the coturnix litter was much bigger than a dime when born. And your "baby" photo looks a lot larger than both coturnix and bob babies (since it it still mostly fuzz and not feathers yet). At least to my eye. So I think that might have confused people. I think your eye might have been thinking more like silver dollar and not dime.

Let us know how these guys grow! They are almost certainly sterile, but that is ok. I like their colors.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Well imo that chick is way bigger then a Bobwhite quail chick. And in fact bigger then some bantam chicks I've raised.
Guess we just have a different opinion of tiny when it comes to chicks.

 

[tabitha.h]

Here's my corturnix. So maybe not dime sized..but to me they were pretty tiny. The point is they weren't a normal chicken chick size. I've had baby chicks to. I've raised all my birds except for a few from baby's. My point exactly was they were quail size. That's all. Idk how that's misinterpreted. Also I'm not sure how you would be sure the would be sterile. Insulting my bird's for god sakes! That's just low.