where to buy Japanese Quail (Coturnix) and hot to keep them happy?

[rigelc]

cool!

Thanks for all the feedback.It looks like I will hacth them, I just need to find the incubator.

 

[Quailbuddy]

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there is a Place in Santa Rosa CA about 35min from you and its called Western Farm Center and they have quail

thats were im getting my girls

 

[rigelc]

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there is a Place in Santa Rosa CA about 35min from you and its called Western Farm Center and they have quail

thats were im getting my girls

hey quailbuddy,

I went to the place.Ittook me an hour but it was nice I got the things I needed and 4 quails. The problem is that they were not sure about the sex and as they could see the difference in the breast,they were not sure if its was male or female. So I have two dark feather and two light ones. I know the ideal would have been one mail and three females,but after driving for an hour I did not wanted to risk to have 3 males and a female. I will upload pics of all of them and maybe you quail experts can give me a hand.

 

[purelypoultry]

Off topic post removed.

 

[rigelc]

Hi,

I got the Quails...they were not sure which was male and female and I decided to get 2 and 2. They were fighting and a raccon killed them all after a month. I am going again to get my Quails and I hope to be more carefull this time/

 

[rigelc]

by the way....woul be enough 1 male and 3 females for my onw little egg production?

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

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Perfect ratio!
May I suggest Jumbo brown Coturnix, they ars so mellow. My buttons & Bob-whites would panic & fly if I was 15 feet away. The JBC's I can walk into the pen & scoop them up. As far as care, I'd give them pine shavings. They love to wallow a hole & just lay around.

 

[Stellar]

All the varieties of the coturnix are nice and tame. Although the wild and Jumbos are really cool. Coturnix are like tiny chickens

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Yes, TOO CUTE!!

 

[rigelc]

I had my 4 first Quail in a wooden box but I moved them veryday to a wire one...I did not want to disturb them so now and them I let them spend the night there...but the raccon manage to open the stupid rabbit cage I used and killed them all and took one...I think he attacked throug the holes first and then saw he coukd go in....bad...bad...bad experience and I feel terrible...any raccon proof tips? I want to buy in amazon a nice cage no wire on the floor but I am scare of the raccon digging to get them :S