Help! What is this?

[pooderpie77]

I got this bird from my dad who got it from someone who has chickens. He had several of these guys to but they got picked off by a hawk. All my dad knew was it is a quail of some sort. Does anyone know what type it may be and if it could be a female or male. It is all red. No white feathering at all. Thanks!

 

[Veer67]

It looks like a Japanese Quail. http://cdn.backyardchickens.com/8/83/838cb9d2_IMG_0417.jpeg

 

[Veer67]

Sorry but I don't know much about quails but this link might help you: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/552972/easiest-way-to-sex-japanese-quails

 

[Veer67]

It does look very similar! Thanks for the input. I thought it looked like the pictures I found of the Tennessee Red Quails.

He /she could be a Tennessee Red quail too.

 

[bingrancher]

Shape of the beak says coturnix quail. Cots have hook style beaks and bobwhites are more cone shaped

 

[lewee]

ok, i have 6 pens, each with 4 birds that have a feathered head, 1 wth a bald spot, im gettin 4 eggs a day from each of the pens, so your sayin my males are layin 4 eggs a day?! oookee dokee

 

[pooderpie77]

It does look very similar! Thanks for the input. I thought it looked like the pictures I found of the Tennessee Red Quails.

 

[flg8r]

It looks just like two I was given that were ID'ed on here as tibetan coturnix. The do look a bit similar to the Tennessee Red quail which was why I asked too. The beak definitely makes a difference.

 

[James the Bald]

A better photo that includes the front of the quail (face and breast) would help better identify which type of quail that you have in your hand.
James

 

[lewee]

thats a red quail, as far as visibly sexing them goes, the only way i know is to have them in a group, after a while the males will start gettin bald heads due to the females riding them, for "attention"