Can I raise quail with my chickens?

[User 1234567]

I'm wanting to see if I can raise quail with my chickens, I plan on putting them in the same coop/run. The end games is collecting and pickling their eggs and selling mature ones to fancy restaurants or just eating them. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Chick Charm]

NO!

 

[Chick Charm]

Type in quail with chickens in the search box and see for yourself what happens. More commonly known is are the affects on the quail from the respiratory illnesses. Sometimes it can take a full year to take hold on the flock but it usually does happen.

Chickens can also get disease from quail that can kill them. A whole chicken flock of had to be put down after a farmer introduced quail in his AZ farm. Something to give consideration to.

 

[User 1234567]

what about putting pheasants with them?

 

[Chick Charm]

Game birds together are much more similar. Though I do not have experience with pheasants, I would think they would be to big to be with Coturnix.

I have seen many aviaries with multiple kinds of birds with Coturnix on the floors cleaning up.

 

[Chick Charm]

There are different types of quail that shouldn't be raised together either. If you put bob's with cots you will get dead cots.

 

[fowlsessed]

X2 CC's posts.

 

[Sycamore27]

Above all you are likely to end up with no living quail, it may happen in a rapid die off or slowly over time but chickens are carriers for a lot of things to which quail don't have the same resistance.

Just curious why you want to combine species of birds in one pen? Are you keeping the birds for pleasure, meat, or eggs?

If you build a large enough aviary you may be able to pick specific game birds that can co-habitate if you make sure you have extra space, lots of hiding places, and the right gender ratios. I would not however combine more than one pair of each type of bird and thoroughly research if your pairings will work. For example I would not put two kinds of quail, two kinds of pheasant, etc. together, but you may be able to house one pair of the right kind of quail with one pair of the right kind of pheasant if everyone has adequate personal space.

If you simply want to house them together to save space this is kind of counter intuitive, the space needed for the birds to be okay together would probably mean double to quadruple the space per bird to keep things peaceful and you would be better off just housing them separately.

Cheers,
Jessie

 

[User 1234567]

I am raising chickens for eggs, I was looking at quail for eggs to pickle and harvest them when mature.

I will just stick to hunting quail and pheasant from the advice I've received

 

[James the Bald]

$1.52

My Dry Spell has ended.

Here is a link that pretty much spells out why you shouldn't raise quail and chickens together. From reading the 1st page of the thread, his chickens weren't co-located... he just handled a chicken with gloves on, then handled a quail with the same gloves.

Edited to add: So imagine if he was able to pass the sickness through his gloves, think of what would happen if the chickens & birds were close enough to transmit this through the air? AND, he caught it quick enough. Imagine if he didn't recognize the signs right away? He could have lost his whole covey.