New to quail

[AnotherKim]

Hi! So I ordered my quail eggs, Falb-Fee Coturnix. I'm so excited! So my question for the day... how do you raise your quail? In quail cages, or in an aviary on the ground? I'm thinking of doing an aviary.

 

[FarmInProgress]

Hello! I have some quail and we have them in a coop and all the walls are chicken wire. But It really depends on what u want. The only thing you’d probably should have sum sort of chicken wire on the ground if u don’t use a coop so no predators can dig and sneak under. Raising quail is pretty simple, if you are using them for meat u can butcher them at 5 weeks. Quail start lay eggs at 6 weeks old. And if u are going to incubate them it take 18 days.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Do you mean where to raise the chicks or where keeping the adult quails?

 

[AnotherKim]

The adults. I have a brooder for the chicks.

 

[Nabiki]

I keep mine on the ground. They live on the ground naturally, so they seem to be happier that way.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

For adult quails, the keeping in an aviary is without doubt the best way for quails.
Is always a matter of space.

Edit: best with a hight of 2m plus, so they can fly up without injuries. Here we say, in a 50cm hight or 2m+. Within 50cm mostly they are not fast enough for bad injuries, from 2m+ they have enough space.

 

[Quailobsessed]

I prefer keeping mine on the ground in aviaries. As @Nabiki said, they naturally live on the ground. However, different people have different circumstances and preferences.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Yes ... absolutly.
Here in Germany is keeping poultry on grattings forbidden.

I have them in a kinda little coop with a mix of wood scraps, pine bark and hemp litter on the bottom, to imitate natural ground as good as possible.

As you said, best as possibe.