Do female quail sing?

[HobokenChickenEmergency]

One of my A&M's is 8 weeks old. He/she will occasionally sing. It's not crowing (I've watched all the crowing vids on here!). It's almost a cooing sound. No eggs yet, but no real crowing either, so I don't know what to make of it. It's kind of a pretty sound. So is this possibly a girl, or just a girly man?

 

[gabrielle1976]

Come on peopel inquireing minds want to know

 

[monarc23]

Singing.....

does it sound like this?:


If so, she's scared

OR

Does it sound like this??




If so, it's a roo and that's their crow

OR does it sound like this?

If so, that's what I call "the egg call" is a hen announcing she's ready to mate
ALSO at the begining of the film 12 seconds in you'll hear *lightly* another call they do it's a paranoid or *need something* call.
theres other sounds both hens and roos make but these are the only ones i have filmed so far

 

[HobokenChickenEmergency]

None of the above. He/she seems pretty relaxed when he/she does it, and it's almost always when he/she is looking through the wire. It almost sounds like a mourning dove's call.

Maybe it's longing for his/her old friends? I got him/her 4 weeks ago from a guy who had all browns. Somehow he ended up with a lone A&M mixed up in the eggs he bought, so he let me have him/her. He/she still looks at the other A&M's like "What ARE you?"

 

[monarc23]

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Haha i dunno what kinda coturnix you have then they dont have a call like a mourning dove

I wish they did though that'd be pretty. Im just joking i know you have a coturnix but maybe your mourning doves sound strange around your place

I always read people saying their coturnix coo... but they really don't. They chirp, chortle, and yelk but they don't coo sadly. <--- ETA the only reason im posting this is because i dont want newbies to coturnix thinking that they're getting a bird that sounds like a dove... doves sound pleasant, and even though I like the sound of coturnix quail, they don't sound anywhere like a dove if they did I bet more people would own them though!!!

You might be hearing their "i see something scary in the sky call" it's a very low almost growl.

 

[HobokenChickenEmergency]

Hmm. What does a yelk sound like?

This isn't EXACTLY like a mourning dove, but it's the closest to similar. And it's not frequently, just once maybe once or twice a week. It started at about 5 weeks, so I thought it was crowing at first. Then I heard what real crowing sounds like and that's not it.

The others don't make any sound at all yet, and they just turned 6 weeks old. Could it be that this one's a boy who doesn't have anything to crow about yet?

 

[b.hromada]

My coturnix quail hatched on April 23, and I've got a bunch of roos crowing. I was wondering how to tell their sex. Is this the only way to tell.

 

[gabrielle1976]

what monarch said / hide

 

[monarc23]

b.hromada :

My coturnix quail hatched on April 23, and I've got a bunch of roos crowing. I was wondering how to tell their sex. Is this the only way to tell.

Nope it's not the only way to tell check out my Coturnix Information Tutorial link below in my sig.​

 

[monarc23]

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The yelk is the first vid

They do it as adults too and it may sound deeper but it's the same thing "yelk yelk yelk" its a "im paranoid/scared" call