How likely will Coturnix become extinct?

[The Birb King]

Ehh........no. Especially with them being mass produced for food like chickens. If your strictly talking about wild ones then I'm not sure

 

[taterandflock]

What a terrible thought! With how popular chickens/quail keep getting as times get more and more bleak, I really don't think it's possible. Unless something like what someone mentioned above happens, like some variety of avian flu that targets game birds or something.

 

[fluffycrow]

Pretty much impossible

 

[007Sean]

Switch them out? Since I'm in it for "looking pets" and eating eggs, I just let them go as long as they can. They nest anywhere they want and I just screen them off with garden netting so they don't go chasing the other girls once they get to the territorial phase. My oldest hen is over 5 years, but she's my oldest by a year—last of my first hatch. My oldest broody is over 3 (my dear Wilma).

Well, that's what I wanted to know! So, they are 'old hat' at setting. I was originally thinking it might be genetically passed down by the hens that do set, thereby, it would be their daughters that are setting, too! but your not doing it that way!

It would be interesting to see if you got 'new' birds, if they would set...thus, it would eliminate one or the other...genetics versus environment.

 

[romea]

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.

You also spare the hens from being chased all day.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

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.

Do they raise the chicks?

 

[The Birb King]

Do they raise the chicks?

They can. Apparently with quail they are more likely to go broody and raise chicks if they were raised by a mother themselves. Of course it also has to do with their diet and habitat as well

 

[The Birb King]

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.

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