Use Chicken to hatch quails

[Soaker]

I've heard quails can get diseases very easily from chickens, and they shouldn't be kept together, but I've also heard a lot of people use chickens to hatch quails, since quails don't' get broody. How does that work? Won't the newly hatched quail chicks get sick?

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

I'm not sure about disease and sickness but quail eggs are VERY small and I'd be worried about them being crushed. Also I've had a friend say that since they're different species they "speak different languages" which sounds odd but also makes sense in a way? I'm not sure how a chicken would feel about it, although take that second part with a grain of salt ;D

Most people just use incubators for quail, especially with them growing so fast it's fairly easy ^^ unless you're really lucky and blessed with a coturnix who will brood :O

 

[JacinLarkwell]

People will use a small bantam (like a serama) and use them to brood, taking the quail away at lockdown and give the hen a regular chick. They finish hatching in a hatcher

 

[MGG]

@FortCluck did this!

 

[FortCluck]

I used a bantam chicken and she hatched all of them and raised them.

Here’s my thread on it:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hatching-coturnix-quail-with-broody-chicken.1399994/

 

[FortCluck]

And about disease I find that false... I have had quail with my chickens for about a year and I’ve never lost 1 of them to disease from my chickens. They’re hardier than chickens in my opinion and also better layers

 

[Soaker]

And about disease I find that false... I have had quail with my chickens for about a year and I’ve never lost 1 of them to disease from my chickens. They’re hardier than chickens in my opinion and also better layers

Well I dont have a chicken anyways, I was just wondering because I heard a lot of different things that don't make sense together.