Can quail tolerate -40c?

[Rewskii]

I’ve had chickens for years, but we’re thinking about getting into quail. However my “barn” doesn’t have electricity. It’s well insulated and dry. My chickens are fine with the cold. I was thinking of setting up a quail enclosure inside another room of the barn. As long as they’re dry, have proper bedding and out of the wind and snow would they tolerate northern Ontario winters?

 

[flickerfarkle]

Dunno about quail but -40°C = -40°F.

It's the one and only temperature where the two scales match.

This guy (in Montréal) claims his survived at -31°C.

It got down to single digits °F here this past winter and my quail got along fine but my hatch rate plummeted.

 

[Nabiki]

If you chickens are okay, the quail should be. I'm assuming that it doesn't get down to -40 inside the barn.

Make sure they have small shelters and enough straw to bury themselves in.

 

[Finchbreeder]

Makes me grateful to live where I do.
Here 0C is Bloody cold.

 

[Nabiki]

Makes me grateful to live where I do.
Here 0C is Bloody cold.

It got down to -7F here at one point this last winter. I didn't lose any of my birds and they were in an unheated greenhouse.

 

[catesquire]

Make sure they're dry and out of the wind, as sheltered as possible, and then yep they can. Source: my area gets a handful of -40 days every winter, and the local I got my first eggs from reported no problems. I actually got a 50% hatch rate out of eggs collected during a -30 week