Chicken raising quail?

[Three Little Bunnies]

Hi!

I am wondering if it is possible for a bantam Cochin to hatch and raise quail. I am assuming yes, but would the quail be able to stay with the chicken flock, or do they need their own place?

Thanks!

 

[nchls school]

To get the hen to accept the odd eggs put a couple small dummy white eggs with the quail eggs. This hen is a serama but I'd assume cochin would do as well. Chickens and quail do not mix well long-term.

 

[JaeG]

Cochins may be too fluffy. Quail chicks crawl right up under the hens wings and can easily get tangled in fluffy feathers. But you could try. A chicken with hard feathering would be better like that gorgeous Serama, or an OEGB.

I'd definitely keep them separated from other chickens in a small space.

 

[Quaicken108]

I knew of someone who didn’t have enough room in their incubator and was going to be like that for a bit so they put the quail eggs that they wanted to incubate in metal eggs and then they put those eggs under their broody hen and she helped incubated them until the incubator was ready. Don’t worry, she also hatched out some chicks (chicken) and wasn’t left sad with no eggs. Hopefully you can have success.

 

[FloorCandy]

I’ve heard that you can have a chicken hatch them, but should remove to a brooder after hatch. The chicken can pass illness to the quail that is asymptomatic for the chicken but serious for the quail. Also, male quail would help rear the young, the chicks don’t have the same natural grouping as chicken chicks and they will wander off from the hen, in quail society the male gathers the wayward chicks. This is what I’ve read online.

 

[nchls school]

My serama raised the chicks in a large plastic tub. The above post may well be right that in a larger area the chicks may have been lost.

 

[Quailobsessed]

It probably could be done, but it wouldn't be the same as a broody quail raising them.

 

[nchls school]

Interestingly, one of the chicks, raised by the serama, hatched and raised two batches of 10 chicks a few months later before she died in a storm; as did all my quail.

 

[Ravenlover]

Rip awesome chicken and quails

 

[nchls school]

I still have the awesome chicken. She's whiter now, but the same hen.