Taming Chicks

[Robo]

I had one tame button. It was almost pecked to death when it was little. Now I keep it in a cage with my alarm clock (My pet Sun Conure).

 

[Stellar]

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Awww cute! I also have a Sun Conure. SHe is 13 years old and such a big baby but knows when someone is at the door

 

[JJMR794]

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WELL NOW THAT EXPLAINS ALOT---- THEY DONT TAME IN 99.9999999998% OF CASES. MORE OFTENLY THEY DONT EVEN SETTLE DOWN AND ALLOW YOU TO FEED THEM QUIETLY. I HAVE BREEDERS AS OLD AS 3 YRS AND THEY STILL THRASH LIKE MAD WHEN I PUT FEED IN THEIR PENS--- AS A GENERAL RULE COTURNIX ARE ABOUT THE ONLY QUAIL THAT TAME OR CALM DOWN AND THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH THAT WAY BY NATURE. IF YOU PINION THEM THEY WILL SETTLE A BIT, BUT THEY ARE NEVER GONNA BE YOUR BUDDY

 

[Robo]

Mine is a boy. I named him Taffy. He sleeps laying on his back. Does yours do that?

 

[Stellar]

She sleeps on her back, but also has a nest box

She lays eggs and thinks she will hatch them..I stuck quail eggs in there once and Lord and behold she hatched them

 

[Robo]

I need to put quail eggs under my friend's parrot. He says it will brood rocks if you want it to.

 

[Stellar]

I have one that sits on nuts in her seed dish. SHe is an Alexandrine Parakeet but we named her Oskar (was told it was a boy lol). Parrots make great broodys at times but you have to take the babies away when they hatch because the parrot tries to force feed the chick like they would their young and the big beak can hurt the chick and possibly kill them (it happened to one chick). We all learn

 

[Robo]

My parakeets won't mate, and the hen won't lay.

 

[Denninmi]

I had a really, really tame and friendly bobwhite once. Found it where I used to work, and after it hung around for 2-3 days, I literally picked it up and put it in a box and took it home, because I figured it was going to be something's dinner. I had it almost 3 years. It would come out of its cage and sit on my shoulder, and would also do the bobwhite whistle for me. I kind of think it saw me as a potential mate. It had to have been hand-reared by someone.

I suspect, although others on here said no when I mentioned this on a previous post, that if you raise a hatchling in total isolation from all other quail from the moment of hatching, and pay a lot of attention to it and handle it a lot, it will probably tame down. BUT, you are probably working against the genetics in bobwhites, which no doubt tell them to be wild.

Personally, I would just not fight it, and get a coturnix. Mine are really tame and friendly, like chickens or even more docile, and I did absolutely nothing to make them this way. Some of them even let me pour dust over them in their sandbox while they roll around and fluff their feathers.

 

[Robo]

I love my coturnix named legs. He sits on my shoulder and crows.