FEEDING QUAIL

[The Phantom]

I don't know the breed name, but my friend has some that I was thinking about buying, the aren't button quail, and they're not exotic, and they look a lot like this
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some lay blue eggs because the lady she got them from selectively bred them to get the blue color

I have never raised coturnix before but I have heard they are super nice.

 

[007Sean]

I was talking to Virgil and he said they were like quail. He keeps them on sand and said they fairly easy. They just can’t handle the cold well. I was looking into getting some this spring.

Well, as with any birds we raise, some people have no problems others not so much.

 

[The Phantom]

Well, as with any birds we raise, some people have no problems others not so much.

So true. I’ll let you know if I get any this spring.

 

[007Sean]

Well, as with any birds we raise, some people have no problems others not so much.

They are another one that's fairly expensive.

 

[007Sean]

So true. I’ll let you know if I get any this spring.

Please do!

 

[Elana DeBolt]

Does this seem accurate?

 

[007Sean]

Does this seem accurate?
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Yep, but I'd just stay with 24% protein throughout their life time.

 

[Fishkeeper]

Coturnix are probably the most domesticated breed of quail, i.e. the one that's furthest from its wild ancestors, and are easy to keep.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I have never raised coturnix before but I have heard they are super nice.

I mean, "nice" is kind of relative. They are indifferent to humans with socialization and affectionate to extremely aggressive with each other depending on space and mix of genders. I generally have some injuries when I'm getting more than one new breeding group integrated at a time, and it's hard/impossible to house any males together past 5 weeks, but other than that they're pretty laid back.

Coturnix are probably the most domesticated breed of quail, i.e. the one that's furthest from its wild ancestors, and are easy to keep.

This is most accurate. They're adapted to a wide range of temperatures, they lay the most and largest eggs for their body size, they're least stressed by high density housing and they come in the most colors/patterns/sizes of all breeds of quail available domestically. You also (mostly invariably?) don't have to have a permit to keep them (like button quail; unlike most native species - mearns, gamble, valley, blue scale, bobwhite, etc - in some/most U.S. states at least). I think the permits are generally like $10-30 but it's still something to consider.

 

[BReeder!]

This is an article I just recently wrote on fermenting chicken feed. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/fermented-feed-how-we-do-it-the-4-container-method.74687/
I'm going to be fermenting quail feed as well. Not so sure about adding a scratch mix to quail feed though like I do to my chicken feed... I would like to add grain/seeds that my quail will be able to eat, but not sure what they'll eat. Any ideas?