Can I keep some breeder jumbos in the hutch with my 2 silkie hens?

[danischi24]

Disease doesn't worry me as much as how they would interact. Either the silkies will be on the top story & the quail on the bottom or they will all have access to both. My silkie hens are proper bantams at less than 2lbs. The quail will be 4 females & a male & at the high end of jumbo weights. It would just be nice to give them all more space. Here is the hutch:

 

[onthespot]

I don't think they would hurt each other once they were accustomed to sharing. I imagine there would be a bit of pecking at first, both ways. Maybe they can get used to being around each other in neutral territory.

 

[JJMR794]

You do realize the disease will be lethal for your quail?

 

[danischi24]

My chickens are cleared of everything as they live in a bio zone. They do not touch the ground or have contact with any other birds so the chance of picking something up is slim. The quail will have to live under them if they don't live with them so "if" there were any diseases, they would catch them anyway. There is a much stronger chance of them getting Avian Flu or Pneumonia (which are both airborne here) from the meat chicken houses in the area but those are risks I can't avoid. These quail are for meat & edible eggs.
I'm wondering what the interaction will be like between the silkies & the quail though. Will they flock or just keep to their own species?

 

[ultasol]

Sigh. The best advice is the advice that is used.

 

[danischi24]

This is true. However, please note that I do not live in the US & we have different diseases here-for instance, no blackhead. I know that any disease getting to the quail would be coming from the outside & so it would get to them whether they were housed with my chickens or not. The hutch is in a barn that I raise calves in & decontaminate very regularly.
Also, as I stated in my first post, I am looking for advice about interaction & not disease. I have spoken to our local poultry vet & he is not concerned about diseases spreading between the two species because of the environment I keep them in & their current health status.

 

[aprophet]

Quote:
http://www.poultrymed.com/Poultry/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=10000&FID=473

I don't look for info over your way much I was kina wondering how Y'all did livestock and poultry and all I found was a resource had a bunch of good info here is something else from over your way I knew one man who had game fowl and quail as long as they could see each other they would fight the wire constantly spaz and crow/vocalize at each other after he got them to where they could not see each other they pretty much calmed down you may have different "luck" with the type chickens you have

http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/veterinary/issues/vet-02-26-2/vet-26-2-37-0109-14.pdf

HTH good luck with your project