Quail toys?

[Roomi the quail]

My quail lives in an apartment as a pet. She is much loved, cared, and pampered with my family's undivided attention on her welfare. Still she lacks nature in general and a jostling society with her fellow quails that she would have had if she had been caged outside in a country barn with her friends.

So, just to ease my guilt of dragging her along with lonely, boring, confined city life, I decided to give her some toys.

Her current entertainment is: a sandbox to bath in, another box full of hays to mess with, little round mirror to stare at, small fluffy ball to keep her company, and roaming in my room for 3-4 hours a day(I tried to give her a small perch but she won't use it as chicks would)

Is there anything to add to her small household?

 

[Acre4Me]

Another quail for company.

 

[Nuchi]

Stuff to stimulate natural urges like picking through edible Weeds, herbs, live insects I know of some people who add some feeder fish to a trough some times. Some birds will chase laser pointers as well others are afraid.

This stuff is kinda generalized and I would do your own research as I am just getting into this myself.

 

[TheYLWFlock]

Grow a mini garden for her in a small container. Things like lettuce, sprouts, etc. then give it to her!

 

[Fishkeeper]

What kind of quail?
She absolutely needs at least one companion. If she's a coturnix, she needs several. Quail are social, they cannot be kept alone long-term and be healthy.
Plants are a good idea, as are laser pointers. Live insects (mealworms, etc, pet stores and bait stores sell them) would be great. New foods are always a good plan.
Really, though, sounds like you're doing a good job on the enrichment front. Just get her some companions! Button and coturnix quail (I'm guessing she's one or the other) are domesticated, they don't know what "nature" looks like. Besides that, you don't need things to be natural for them to be good enrichment. As long as she has things to scratch in, interesting food to peck, a sandbox, space to move, and other quail to fill her social needs, she'll be fine. You could theoretically set up a giant dollhouse that provided all those things in the least natural-looking way possible and it'd work just as well as the most natural-looking habitat.

 

[Roomi the quail]

Another quail for company.

Sadly, my parents wouldn't allow that... One of my friend incubated 3 quails about the same time I did mine though, so I try to get them to know each other sometimes.

 

[Roomi the quail]

Stuff to stimulate natural urges like picking through edible Weeds, herbs, live insects I know of some people who add some feeder fish to a trough some times. Some birds will chase laser pointers as well others are afraid.

This stuff is kinda generalized and I would do your own research as I am just getting into this myself.

Plants are an absolutely great idea! My quail doesn't want to eat greens that much but she would mess with them for a long time. Fish and laser pointers are rather a surprise. I never knew quails hunt fish and laser pointers...thought only kittens would do that!

 

[Roomi the quail]

Grow a mini garden for her in a small container. Things like lettuce, sprouts, etc. then give it to her!

Once again, that's a great idea and I'm beginning to think that it would be good for my mental health if I grew a mini garden. If only I could keep the plants alive for more than weeks

 

[Roomi the quail]

What kind of quail?
She absolutely needs at least one companion. If she's a coturnix, she needs several. Quail are social, they cannot be kept alone long-term and be healthy.
Plants are a good idea, as are laser pointers. Live insects (mealworms, etc, pet stores and bait stores sell them) would be great. New foods are always a good plan.
Really, though, sounds like you're doing a good job on the enrichment front. Just get her some companions! Button and coturnix quail (I'm guessing she's one or the other) are domesticated, they don't know what "nature" looks like. Besides that, you don't need things to be natural for them to be good enrichment. As long as she has things to scratch in, interesting food to peck, a sandbox, space to move, and other quail to fill her social needs, she'll be fine. You could theoretically set up a giant dollhouse that provided all those things in the least natural-looking way possible and it'd work just as well as the most natural-looking habitat.

My friend has some quails(coturnix, same as mine) and I tried to introduce mine to them, unfortunately without proper intro procedures it seems. The result kinda made her not want to be near to her own kind and I deeply regret that. I'm trying to make two sides known to each other, though. Hopefully I will be able to keep a flock of them when I get away from my parents' house in the future. Getting the quails to be best buddies looks more difficult now that I actually am starting to know basics of it!

p.s. Thanks for your advice, to all of you guys above! Sorry it took me some time to reply. It's because I had a test yesterday.

 

[K85trb]

There are “foot” toys for birds.
Things like little balls, foraging toys, etc.

http://www.healthybird.net/catalog/...dex&cPath=18&zenid=qc22uco2vkh1r9irt16f6424j2