Quail ❤️

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Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow

Quail are so much fun to keep. What Breed are you considering? I will suggest Coturnix if you've never kept them before. Smart, curious, and even affectionate. Coturnix mature up fast too and will start laying around 8 weeks of age.

Make yourself at home here and if you have any questions about anything along the way, be sure to ask. Welcome to our community!
 
Welcome to BYC @8hams

Glad you could join us all here! As @TwoCrows said quail are lovely little birds to raise. I thoroughly enjoyed keeping them!
There are some fab articles here in the quail section of the learning Center ~ QUAIL ARTICLES

Enjoy your time here on BYC :frow
 
Glad to meet you, and welcome to BYC.

I have coturnix quail, and think they are charming little birds. They are small, and even the roosters' crowing is not loud enough to seem more than songbirds' song. They have dusty feathers, and really need to have a dust bath, so for 2 reasons, they are quite dusty birds.

But their little eggs are charming, and delicious. They are good if you boil them for just 3 - 3 and 1/2 minutes (because they are so little, this will provide a hard boiled egg that can be eaten peeled or peeled and deviled. I even just tear these in half to give a treat to my dogs or my chickens. If you want to add them to a recipe or cook them other than boiling, you will want to get some quail egg scissors. The eggs are small enough, and have tough shell membranes, so it's very messy to crack one open without the scissors.

Here is an article by one of our members about caring for coturnix. Nabiki has written more articles, including one on slaughtering and preparing quail for eating, and another on using every part of your quail, from eggs to feathers. Let us know if you get quail, and tell us all about it!
 

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