I prefer browns too, but am gonna do a set of A&Ms just for the heck of it. I have heard that whites have more problems as well. I have kept english and a&m, but in small quantities of both, so not enough to have any major opinion on them
With the A&Ms, they need about double the space browns do... like with most quail if they are in tight living quarters they will fight... but A&Ms are MUCH worse about it. They will just flip switch one day to the next and you gotta cull em because they wont stop fighting after that. I had to watch mine real close... Its usually the females that fight, not the roos. I got down to where I had to keep one roo with two females only and had to match up females that got along with each other... It was a big mess, Id come home to bloody birds, dead birds, feathers pulled out everywhere... I got sick of em. The browns on the other hand... never one fight... the A&Ms were a bit tamer with me than the browns were, but the A&MS didnt like each other...
Yeah I have heard lots of horror stories on them. My pen that they will be in is 20 foot by 20 foot so that should help haha. And if I get a mean one I have a particularly racist pheasant who can teach it a lesson real quick. He hates white/buff colored birds. But yeah, Beginners are best off with just having some italians or browns to start
Yeah, we were referring to just coturnix, the other species of quail are much more aggressive, especially bobwhites. Lots of people say that valley quail are vicious but Ive never had a problem with them
Awesome! Good luck with them! And yes, Robby is a great guy and fun to talk to!
