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[Sam]

Hello, I've been thinking about getting some quail and I have a few questions, does anyone know if theres kind of like a guide online for complete beginners?

 

1. how much room do they need per bird? do they live on the grass?

2. do they lay many eggs?

3. do they eat layers pellets? (stuff I feel the chickens)

4. Are they noisy at all? Like do they have an alert call like chickens, or an early morning song?

 

Thank you Nothing is definite yet, i'm just trying to find out some information on them

[Sam]

Oh, and does anyone have a photos of their set ups?

i've seen plums & beach chicks (i think) so would just like to see what others have theirs living in

[beach chick]

Hello, I've been thinking about getting some quail and I have a few questions, does anyone know if theres kind of like a guide online for complete beginners?

 

1. how much room do they need per bird? do they live on the grass?

I have kept up to 4 in just over 1sm m runs on grass. they love grass, especially if its long, but you need to be able to move the pens about for cleanliness.

 

2. do they lay many eggs?

 

erm, mine have been rubbish to be honest! but I know some are excellent layers.

 

3. do they eat layers pellets? (stuff I feel the chickens)

mine do, they seem to like it. others recommend a specialist quail food like garvo.

 

4. Are they noisy at all? Like do they have an alert call like chickens, or an early morning song?

really pretty quiet, although the males have a lovely chirruping call which I doubt could offend anyone...

 

Thank you Nothing is definite yet, i'm just trying to find out some information on them

[Sam]

Brilliant thank you

I think it was your post that made me think they laid little or no eggs at all

Are there certain breeds that lay a lot and some that don't lay many at all? Or were you just unfortunate?

[Chook n Boo Mum]

I have the standard little brown quails (coturnix coturnix?).......2 are about 6-7 weeks old & outside and 9 are 2 weeks old, still indoors with an electric hen which they sit on rather than snuggle under

 

Boris, one of the older 2 is a little man who sounds like he's gargling......Doug (who should be Doris as she's a girl ) chatters quietly to herself.....we are awaiting her first egg with bated breath

 

They are all from stock which have proven to be prolific layers for their own mum, I can't wait for mine to start laying

 

The babies only smell as they are in a cage which they insist on trashing within nanseconds of clean bedding going in & are in a "landlocked" room with no through draught when my son hermetically seals himself in for the night ( he has to walk through their room to get to his, he doesn't share with them ), he's usually only home at weekends so not generally a problem...........I also think once the leccy hen comes out things will improve

 

The babies are fed on chick crumb & the big uns have Garvo quail mix, though they will all be going on to the Garvo Fancy Poultry Pride which can be fed from hatch to dispatch apparently, when I pick it up at the weekend.

 

These are my first quails & it's all a bit learn as I go along with them.........first thing I learned was they move soooooooo fast (hence their nickname of Tasmanian Devil Bumblebees) and at about 10 days they go up very quickly too, mini Harrier jumpjets

 

Eventually they will all go in a mezzanine section of my WIR.....I am awaiting it's construction & have been for several weeks

 

Good luck Sam, "just think little chickens" I was told when I got my eggs to hatch

 

Sha x

[Sam]

Poor ol' Doug, I bet she loves that name

 

Thank you for that, really appreciated. The world of quail does sound exciting but I've put it to the back of my mind (for a while ) because I am saving up for a cube... which means more chickens :D

 

Good luck with your adventure too, and hopefully you'll get eggs soon

[scarlettohara]

I've got some in the incubator so this has been very useful - thanks Sha Mine are going into a 2 tier rabbit hutch then eventually .

[surfer_chicken]

Sam, I see you're in Northampton. I don't know anything about quails really, but you can see/buy them at Wilton Locks Garden Centre if you want a peek I saw a lovely little male quail there last time who was running up and down and making the chirrup-y noise

[Chook n Boo Mum]

There's a sale at Brackley tomorrow, I'm sure there'll be quail there too if you want a looksee .......don't know timings though

 

A single boy at that garden centre..poor little chap

[surfer_chicken]

Oh no, he had loads of ladies with him But he was still making a racket

[beach chick]

I love that chirrup the boys do... although I did hear it at 4.45 this morning!!

luckily the neighbours dont know its a quail...

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Update on my earlier wafflings

 

I have now got 6 girlie quails and Boris all living in their rather posh mezzanine des res in the WIR ...........3 of the girls are home reared & 3 I bought from Cotswold Chicken a couple of weeks ago.....they were all put in together this evening, and to say Boris was pleased to have so many new wives presented at one time is a slight understatement

 

The 7 boys which hatched in my 2nd hatching were all dispatched this morning & are awaiting attention in the fridge

 

My neighbour had decided to get antsy at the weekend & although I knew the boys were noisy (all night they would warble ), I wasn't aware they were noisy enough to disturb them....I was very put out with the manner he announced his displeasure, but in reality I should have expected nothing less...........he's also kicked off about Baby, my handreared Pekin cockerel.......tough, he's now shut into the cube at night, with however many of his harem decide to go indoors and the quail boys are forever silent ....I told him last year that Baby was staying & so he shall

 

And adult quails are indeed little stinkers, as mentioned further up this thread , keeping them in your back porch is probably not the best idea in the world............hence the new abode

 

They are little sweeties & once the new CC girls had settled in, none of mine appear to have the "suicidal tendencies" which I had feared.......and (sorry Beach Chick ) I am getting up to 6 eggs a day from the girls, one day I even had 7

 

Good luck to anyone else who chooses to get quail, I am totally smitten with mine

 

Sha x

[quailtastic]

great news.

We are new to this but we are really pleased with our quail too. Our 8 gave us 4 eggs today and hoping we will get more than that tomorrow!!!

[scarlettohara]

Out of my 7 I'm sure 2 are def girls and 2 boys, they are 3 weeks old now still in the kitchen and stinky. They will be going to the end of the garden next week - will the warbling be heard there ? I can't hear them in the house at night

[Chook n Boo Mum]

They're not very noisy at 3 weeks Sara...I heard Boris at 4.50 this morning, but the pheasant in the field was making more noise than him so I'm not bothered