How likely will Coturnix become extinct?

[QuailMan6666]

Do you think there is any likelihood that Coturnix quails will become extinct in the next decade?

 

[le_bwah]

Do they raise the chicks?

So far, yes. Mama makes noises I never hear any other time of the year, can call her chicks to her, and tidbits for them. At over a week old, they're still snuggling under her at night. This is the way it was for the last hatch, too. Hoping it goes this way for the next one!

 

[le_bwah]

Do you think there is any likelihood that Coturnix quails will become extinct in the next decade?

What thought/experience made you wonder?

 

[007Sean]

Not possible!!!!! They are the "cock roaches" of the quail world!

 

[eddie_van_quailen]

Do you think there is any likelihood that Coturnix quails will become extinct in the next decade?

Considering how popular they are as pets/homesteader livestock, I'd say it's about as likely as chickens going extinct.

 

[The Birb King]

I've had at least two hens go broody in every hatch I've ever had (I don't always let them try and have to break them out of it). This will be my third natural hatch coming up in a couple weeks. So I don't get why people say they don't go broody.

Probably because most people cram their quail in wire bottom cages where they physically can't go broody then they say " WhY aRe ThEy NoT gOiNg BrOodY?"

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

I’m guessing the concern comes from the fact that in their domesticated form they generally cannot go broody or otherwise take care of themselves in the wild?

Supposing a calamity dries up the worldwide supply of affordable, mass produced, feed, there are still wild Corturnix that will likely live on even if all the domestic ones were to hypothetically die off.

 

[le_bwah]

I’m guessing the concern comes from the fact that in their domesticated form they generally cannot go broody or otherwise take care of themselves in the wild?

I've had at least two hens go broody in every hatch I've ever had (I don't always let them try and have to break them out of it). This will be my third natural hatch coming up in a couple weeks. So I don't get why people say they don't go broody.

 

[le_bwah]

Your the exception!....like with any animal, there are always exceptions. The fact that your's are consistently broody, is probably due to genetics....I mean, if you keep hens from the broody's year after year, their instincts to be broody will be greater than those that haven't or those that may never go broody.

None of my hens are related—I keep no males, so each hatch starts when I swap a clutch of empties for fertile eggs I buy online. I would bet it's environmental—big space, lots of cover, no males, and I basically leave them be except to clean up and sneak a camera in there once in a while.

 

[le_bwah]

Why don't you keep any males it would be easier than buying new eggs every time

Because I like to restock with color morphs I don't have. I think it's more fun that way. Also, I never have to worry about a clutch developing when I don't intend it to, and I avoid the drama of picking a good roo for the flock—all males are insta-cull for me.