Pros and Cons of quail?

[Silkie Princess]

Group pics of some Italian (fawn) variations:
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I’ll post some closeups, the lighting isn’t great, but it’s raining on top of old snow outside, so natural light isn’t an option.

Left bottom is Italian with one copy of fee, she survived the rat attack and it seems she has scar tissue on her back that prevents the feathers from coming back in areas, so she has been inside due to low temps outdoors.

Above her is a young hen that is probably the brown color gene, I have that brown in my lines, but I didn’t know originally, I had actually made a thread or maybe put it in the hatch a long thread, about my odd cocoa brown range chick a while ago. In a group of sex links I had some scarlets and one who was noticeably more brown, I called it cocoa. This hen is darker brown pearl than the autumn amber, it also has silver (SSC). It’s interesting because the fee removed all the yellow undertones and a lot of the brown, but the remaining brown spots are fairly dark still. She has an overall cheetah kind of pattern.

To the right, in the center is the pearl male, he’s a nice dark, clean pearl imo.

The far right, I’ll have some individuals pics of further down, is an autumn amber fee panda.


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Here’s that weird brown/silver hen, top left in first group pic:
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Here’s the pearl male:
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This hen is autumn amber fee, because she’s panda pattern, there’s not much to see she hatched as a faker, and developed the pattern at a few weeks:
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Here’s Italian with one copy of fee, you can see the pale undertones instead of the bright yellow and orange, but still the black spots. She has a lot of color, her brother is very yellow and orange, but he’s outside and I’m not interested in going out in this weather lol. I find fee washes out yellow much less compared to browns and reds, but most Italians with one copy of fee will be more brightly orangy on the back of the neck, and over all more white underneath in all other areas:
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Here’s another girl not from the group pic, she is roux, silver, double fee, and Italian:
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Stunning!

 

[FloorCandy]

I took a pic of the male when I was feeding them yesterday, I think he’s so bright red because he carries 1 copy of roux, I will be doing some test breeding with him to see, but he’s very bright red/orange on the back compared to others I’ve had.

 

[yakitori]

I took a pic of the male when I was feeding them yesterday, I think he’s so bright red because he carries 1 copy of roux, I will be doing some test breeding with him to see, but he’s very bright red/orange on the back compared to others I’ve had.

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you have such gorgeously colored birds <3

 

[FloorCandy]

you have such gorgeously colored birds <3

Aww, thank you

 

[Kaileb]

that's an Italian right???

 

[FloorCandy]

that's an Italian right???

He’s manchurian, which is 2 copies of Italian. He’s very young, as he ages his head will turn all brown/black, and most of his spots will fade, leaving him mostly shades of orange and yellow.

 

[Phaedra Geiermann]

Pros:
Quiet unless you have unhappy boys
Will lay almost daily as long as they have at least 14-16 hours of light
Only need about 1 square foot per bird
Great if you live in a place that doesn't allow chickens
Poop is great for compost
Tasty
Quick to butcher/clean
Perfect single serving size

Cons:
Small eggs compared to chicken
Not a huge amount of meat
Poop machines
Will destroy any plants in their enclosure

You can find a lot of good information here, and if you have more questions, feel free to ask!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/categories/quail.32/

After having chickens for two years, now we have quails, too. Are quails more powerful poop machines than chickens? Our chickens poop so much so I guess our compost will be very very rich for the plants in our garden.

 

[Nabiki]

After having chickens for two years, now we have quails, too. Are quails more powerful poop machines than chickens? Our chickens poop so much so I guess our compost will be very very rich for the plants in our garden.

They are probably equivalent.