Would it be horrible/illegal if I...

[Akane]

Quail have a lot of legal issues around them and it may not even be legal with license to release quail on land you own. Odds of them surviving on any land that you haven't developped for them and without raising them properly for release is less than that of guineas. I don't think any of these plans result in establishing a working population. One just involves your guineas wandering a bit off their property (they may still come home every night) until someone tells you to confine them which they may not even care and the other involves completely illegally raising gamebirds that will be wiped out within the year. Guineas will survive a bit better but they aren't good at raising their own offspring and losses are pretty heavy when they are first let out of a pen. In a few years if you don't add to the flock you'd probably have no guineas left or just a few experienced birds that weren't managing to reproduce.

 

[silkydragon]

lol i got some quail when i was a kid (6) and they where just barly old enough to fly they all escaped when i tried to take them out of the box and put them in the cage and as for surviving you cant walk around my field without a bobwhite jumping up every step and there are some types of quail you need a license for and some you dont i know in ohio you dont need a license for bobwhite(atleast not like 4yrs ago) becouse i tried to buy some other type of quail and he said he needed to see a license and we said dont have 1 so he wouldnt give us the 1s we wanted i think they were vally or gambel cuz i remember teardrop things so he saide bobwhites would be fine thus we got them they got loose and now we are over run but every1 loves it cuz we used to have tick problems too but i havent gotten a tick on me from our field in a few yrs



(and i just have to comment on the tickspaw thing: dangers= aids hiv and other diseases spread through blood unless you only let 1 person at a time go in a room then kill all the mosquitos/ticks and also malaria lime disease wez nile etc etc and rly you did not loose anyweight from a tick sucking youre blood unless it was some kinda monster mutant tick becouse if they took enough blood for you to loose weight you would get very sic cuz the body replenishes blood as fast as a tick can suck it
but go ahead see how manny advertisers you can get benifets include unnoticeable weight loss risk aids hiv lime disease malaria weznile etc etc bet you get alot of customers #1 rule of business dont kill youre buyers)
lol gotta say this is my longest post yet

 

[SarahFair]

I dont really mind if I have to add to them and they never really become an actual flock. Just SOMETHING to keep down the ticks!!
And whos to say I let them out there?

 

[gsim]

Guineas are supposed to be good for chigger control too, and those buggers are really hard to see.

 

[CoopCrazy]

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I would not recommend the quail.. I woujld still go with Guineas and I am sure if you are feeding them or they can get to feed at your property they wont try to become wild.. I vote Guineas.....

 

[Hillsvale]

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I think he was kidding...

 

[NYREDS]

Question for the Quail advocates: do Quail even eat ticks?
Guineas seek them out & will keep large areas free of ticks.

 

[SarahFair]

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I would not recommend the quail.. I woujld still go with Guineas and I am sure if you are feeding them or they can get to feed at your property they wont try to become wild.. I vote Guineas.....

Ya I think Im going with the Guineas.

 

[NGT ANGL]

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I would not recommend the quail.. I woujld still go with Guineas and I am sure if you are feeding them or they can get to feed at your property they wont try to become wild.. I vote Guineas.....

Ya I think Im going with the Guineas.

Guineas? What Guineas? I raise chickens, not Guineas.....(scratching head) I wonder where in the world they came from............

 

[Nortonsmom]

We've had guineas in the past. Keep them confined for at least 6 weeks to where ever you want them to roost. Once they learn thats home they will come back at night. We would usually shoo them in at night for the 1-2 weeks after we cut them loose till they got the idea that they needed to sleep there. They are excellent for keeping the tick population down. And if you can get them to roost in a coop they wont roost in the trees and become owl bait!