Handsome male quail

To keep or “re-home”?

  • Keep

    Votes: 1 50.0%
  • Re-home

    Votes: 1 50.0%

  • Total voters
    2

ChickChick14

In the Brooder
Jul 13, 2020
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I have a unique looking male quail that I probably need to get rid of because he’s an aggressive breeder and is chasing all the hens. However, I feel like his color is unique, and I’m wondering if I should find a way to keep to keep him. Has anyone seen roosters like this before? He’s actually a little lighter than the photo suggests—I took it late in the evening.
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I have a unique looking male quail that I probably need to get rid of because he’s an aggressive breeder and is chasing all the hens. However, I feel like his color is unique, and I’m wondering if I should find a way to keep to keep him. Has anyone seen roosters like this before? He’s actually a little lighter than the photo suggests—I took it late in the evening.View attachment 2281242
Very! Why do you raise the Quail? I’m just curious. For the sale of eggs to restaurants? I am just interested. The population of wild quail is so depleted due to fire ants and predators in the South where I live I wondered if people were raising them due to that sometimes. We have a few that nest in our Tulip tree that is several decades old. They have done so for the last four years. They have had at least three to four I know one year that lived. We have hawks that will come it to our yard and prey upon other song birds and their nestlings as well. We try to keep them out as much as we can so that the cardinals and Quail have a chance.
 
Very! Why do you raise the Quail? I’m just curious. For the sale of eggs to restaurants? I am just interested. The population of wild quail is so depleted due to fire ants and predators in the South where I live I wondered if people were raising them due to that sometimes. We have a few that nest in our Tulip tree that is several decades old. They have done so for the last four years. They have had at least three to four I know one year that lived. We have hawks that will come it to our yard and prey upon other song birds and their nestlings as well. We try to keep them out as much as we can so that the cardinals and Quail have a chance.
Hi. I live in the South too. We raise them for eggs. I’m pretty new to this, but at some point we may want to incubate eggs, so I’m okay with keeping a few males...as long as they behave!
 
Thank you all! We just added 5 new hens last night, and it seems everyone may be settling dow. But, maybe they’re just waking up??
Glad to hear he’s not super rare. If anyone lives near Charlotte, NC and would like to have him for breeding (please don’t eat him!!) if he’s not miraculously calmer today, he’s yours. (As mentioned, he’s got a real passion for fertilizing those eggs! 🤣)
 

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