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Pretty normal. We hatched one chick last year, a Valley quail, and so far your adventures are going along the same lines. I had put fuzzy material in a dixie cup where he snuggled in at night. We kept upgrading until it was a large cottage cheese container. All had the bottoms cut out so they were like a tunnel. We finally put Kevin in a pen outside, separate from the others, as the pair would beat him up. He would follow us around the yard, bathe in the strawberry bed and try to beat up the chickens.
He now lives in a large coop with another bachelor. I am desperately trying to get two more hens. He is a little wilder and we needed to trim his wings as he would fly into the tree and not come down.
Much fun to have a pet like this.
 
Oh, fun! Love your picture :)

Just got back from picking up a bag of sand -- Coco tried yesterday to take a bath in the little bit of sand still left in the dish ... about a tablespoon's worth, not enough! It was funny watching the attempts to fling what was not there ....
 
I'm curious about the calls that Gambel's Quail make. Am familiar with the calls of males, as we hear that a lot. What I don't know is whether the female calls are like the male's -- with respect to females, I think I've only heard them twittering to their young and to the male, so I don't know if both sexes sound alike.

Can anyone clue?
 

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