Looking for help with owning Quails

[Morgan561]

Hello

I am looking into getting Quails. Im not sure which to get and if I can just have females. I would like to have males but I really don't want babies. I don't want to get over run with quails. Im not sure on the market for quails either...as so far as selling the extra babies. I would like egg laying ones. I really like the Asian blue quails. Maybe I could get pair or two of them. Do they breed often? Then maybe I could get a few separate females for egg laying? If I can do that, which breeds are good for egg laying?

Sorry this is so all over the place. Im not sure what to do with this LOL. Please any help, info, or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

 

[rock101fan]

I agree with weirdness555 some website seem stupid for info, I read a lot about coturnix not being worth raising. They are beautiful, give eggs, eat way less than my chickens. What's not to like !

 

[James the Bald]

Ahh and there is James the bald. So far he has helped me with my questions, if you have any that's your guy. But I hear he charges 2 cents .

Ahhhh, Rock fan... you just made my day. I don't charge anything. I actually put money in a jar when new members ask a "certain question"... the 2 cents came into play because I "fished" for the question from a certain new member and gave the new member my "2 cent" opinion... I'm not good with math and adding nickels was so much easier before I stuck my foot out.

Anyway, I just believe that people should put more time and effort learning about something that is "alive" than they do for a cell phone they're thinking about buying. One day, the power grid will fall, and cell phones will be obsolete, and no, I'm not a prepper. I just think that 90% of the food we eat has been so "genetically altered" that we will kill ourselves with food (and don't get me started on the Colony Collapse Disorder with the honey bees or the species of vegetables that have been made extinct by big seed companies like Montsanto). When I was in high school, I don't remember girls being as "developed" as they are these days. And that's because the farmer has to feed his cows and chickens growth hormones to get them to the market to break even or make a profit. That growth hormone is then consumed by our kids in the form of chicken McNuggets combined with the fact that most kids physical activity involves the X-box or other gaming device. Have you noticed that nobody really wants to find the "cure" for obesity? The pharmeceutical (sp?) companies are making crazy money on pills for diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, so why find a cure that will put themselves out of business? My doctor at the VA "recommended" that I read a book by Dr. Dean Ornish due to my high cholesterol levels. Dean Ornish is a published Cardiologist who has found that a plant based diet can reverse cardiovascular disease and slow certain cancers. He worked for Prez & Mrs Clinton after Bill had his triple bypass surgery and totally reversed his heart disease. One of his books, the Spectrum, actually has scientific data to back up his claims. He doesn't state this in his book(s), but if quail eggs are packed with HDL, then I want to eat as many as I can.

OK, Now, I want to extend a sincere apology to all the people out there who have read my off topic rant, and wished they had those last 2 minutes of their lives back.
James

 

[lowbike1]

Ahhhh, Rock fan... you just made my day. I don't charge anything. I actually put money in a jar when new members ask a "certain question"... the 2 cents came into play because I "fished" for the question from a certain new member and gave the new member my "2 cent" opinion... I'm not good with math and adding nickels was so much easier before I stuck my foot out.

Anyway, I just believe that people should put more time and effort learning about something that is "alive" than they do for a cell phone they're thinking about buying. One day, the power grid will fall, and cell phones will be obsolete, and no, I'm not a prepper. I just think that 90% of the food we eat has been so "genetically altered" that we will kill ourselves with food (and don't get me started on the Colony Collapse Disorder with the honey bees or the species of vegetables that have been made extinct by big seed companies like Montsanto). When I was in high school, I don't remember girls being as "developed" as they are these days. And that's because the farmer has to feed his cows and chickens growth hormones to get them to the market to break even or make a profit. That growth hormone is then consumed by our kids in the form of chicken McNuggets combined with the fact that most kids physical activity involves the X-box or other gaming device. Have you noticed that nobody really wants to find the "cure" for obesity? The pharmeceutical (sp?) companies are making crazy money on pills for diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, so why find a cure that will put themselves out of business? My doctor at the VA "recommended" that I read a book by Dr. Dean Ornish due to my high cholesterol levels. Dean Ornish is a published Cardiologist who has found that a plant based diet can reverse cardiovascular disease and slow certain cancers. He worked for Prez & Mrs Clinton after Bill had his triple bypass surgery and totally reversed his heart disease. One of his books, the Spectrum, actually has scientific data to back up his claims. He doesn't state this in his book(s), but if quail eggs are packed with HDL, then I want to eat as many as I can.

OK, Now, I want to extend a sincere apology to all the people out there who have read my off topic rant, and wished they had those last 2 minutes of their lives back.
James

amen!

 

[VickieB57]

My adventure with Quail started when I mentioned to a friend how I love fresh eggs, and would love to have chickens, but I live in town and they don't allow chickens. She asked me if I had ever tried Quail egg, and sent me home with a jar of them. I found that I loved them. When I did some research on them I found there was good reason for me to love them. So I determined to get some quail. My first batch hatched earlier this week! I have 35 little babies and I'm ecstatic.

In between the time of my conversation with my friend and me finally getting my quail, I happened to find myself in a meeting with the Mayor. I mentioned to her that I felt it was wrong that the citizens couldn't have their own chickens for egg laying. She encouraged me to get some, and said the city wouldn't do anything as long as no one complained about them. After deep thought about it, I decided they could keep their chickens. I've got my quail!

 

[rock101fan]

I would get coturnix, if you have enough luck to get them to lay , incubate and raise the babies to the point you have so many you can't deal with them, then you are the luckiest person in the world owning quail. If you want to raise eggs up you will need to incubate them anyway, the majority of everything I have read and dealt with myself is that they do not go broody and incubate their own eggs. If you like the males breeding call as I do , and find it relaxing but I am weird because I love the rooster crowing in the early am, then get a male. If not then get just females. No need for a male and you still will get eggs. Plus coturnix lay the most eggs and at the earliest age. Some like the colors of the bobwhite or valleys but I can't get enough of the color mutations from the coturnix.

 

[Morgan561]

Ok. Thank you so much. I have chickens and parrots! I love birds lol. I just find it tough getting info on quails. Everything i found contradicts the last thing i read on them. So im really confused and unsure

 

[rock101fan]

Well this place is great, any questions I can try and answer. Just don't keep them with chickens I have read a ton of info and see pictures of a nasty uri they can get

 

[Weirdness555]

You might be reading info about different species and getting mixed up, as they all have loads of different names. For instance, chinese painted quail = button quail and japanese quail = italian quail = pharaoh quail = coturnix quail. Coturnix are better for eggs, are their eggs are a better size to eat. You could keep a male because, as said, they probably won't incubate their own eggs. If you want chinese painted quail (not sure if the same as asian blue quail?) then chances are that they won't hatch out loads of eggs either (though it is more common than coturnix) and the males are VERY pretty, but the eggs are also very small (we didn't bother to eat them when we had them).

The best species depends entirely on what you want to do with them. If you do research into the different species and ask on here for clarification, you can't go wrong.

 

[rock101fan]

Who might be getting confused?