Thanks for your quail question! To avoid any enmity in your cage (boys attack boys because of jealousy and girls attack boys too, the ones they did not like) you must keep track of your ratio of boys to girls. I recommend having one male to every four or five females (in one cage). When you have too many male birds (too many males and not enough females) I recommend either putting each lonesome male in a separate cage or either selling them. For more info on quail breeding please visit: http://www.squidoo.com/grow-quails-for-hobby-and-eat-quail-eggs-for-health
I just found your blog and I love it! I have 2 questions for you:
1) Basically, my husband and I live in Texas and we're trying to figure out if we have the space and time to raise quail. We have 2 dogs, but no bird experience. Any advice for us?
2) Have you read the book "That Quail, Robert"? It's about a bobwhite quail that lived with a family in the 1960s. It's super cute and a very sweet story.
Glad to here your interested in becoming a quail owner! Honestly, only a minimal amount of time and effort (and money) is involved in owning and caring for quail as long as you are well prepared and have all the supplies needed. Their supplies is very basic and can be found at your local feed store,pet store or can be homemade . Proper supplies includes some sort of cage (1 square foot per bird min.), water dish, feed tray (and quail feed). You also need a cleaning system to collect all of the quail waste to reduce smell and attraction of unwanted pests. We have a removable tray that collects all of the quail waste under our cage that that we empty into our compost once every one or two weeks. Our quail are/were are fist and only pets, the reason being that all you need to do to keep them happy and healthy is to change their water once a day, fill their food when needed and clean their cage occasionally. Another thing that crucial to becoming a quail owner is having the right number of birds (one male to five/four females: no more no less!). I can't emphasis that enough becomes when the ratio is off quails male quails can become competitive.
Strangely enough we do in fact own the book "That Quail, Robert" however it has been sitting on my bookshelf for the longest time and I have never actually opened it. You make it sound worthwhile so I'm totally set now on reading it...who knows maybe there will even be a future post about it?!?!
Thanks for your quail question,
Hannah
P.S.- A quail's favorite place to be is in it's sandbox so if you do end up becoming a quail owner be sure get one of those :)
I also have a question I have two quails one gent and other lady and I buy them in march and now its June they haven't lay one egg in which month will they lay egg?
Good question! The lady will most probably be the only one laying an egg, if you know what I mean ;) As for when, quails typically start laying when they are at least 10 weeks old.
Love your posts! My question is what does a quail breeder do when there are too many male birds?
ReplyDeleteHi Tiara!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your quail question! To avoid any enmity in your cage (boys attack boys because of jealousy and girls attack boys too, the ones they did not like) you must keep track of your ratio of boys to girls. I recommend having one male to every four or five females (in one cage). When you have too many male birds (too many males and not enough females) I recommend either putting each lonesome male in a separate cage or either selling them. For more info on quail breeding please visit: http://www.squidoo.com/grow-quails-for-hobby-and-eat-quail-eggs-for-health
Have fun with your quail!
I just found your blog and I love it! I have 2 questions for you:
ReplyDelete1) Basically, my husband and I live in Texas and we're trying to figure out if we have the space and time to raise quail. We have 2 dogs, but no bird experience. Any advice for us?
2) Have you read the book "That Quail, Robert"? It's about a bobwhite quail that lived with a family in the 1960s. It's super cute and a very sweet story.
Thanks, and keep up the awesome quail blogging!
Hi there!
DeleteGlad to here your interested in becoming a quail owner! Honestly, only a minimal amount of time and effort (and money) is involved in owning and caring for quail as long as you are well prepared and have all the supplies needed. Their supplies is very basic and can be found at your local feed store,pet store or can be homemade . Proper supplies includes some sort of cage (1 square foot per bird min.), water dish, feed tray (and quail feed). You also need a cleaning system to collect all of the quail waste to reduce smell and attraction of unwanted pests. We have a removable tray that collects all of the quail waste under our cage that that we empty into our compost once every one or two weeks. Our quail are/were are fist and only pets, the reason being that all you need to do to keep them happy and healthy is to change their water once a day, fill their food when needed and clean their cage occasionally. Another thing that crucial to becoming a quail owner is having the right number of birds (one male to five/four females: no more no less!). I can't emphasis that enough becomes when the ratio is off quails male quails can become competitive.
Strangely enough we do in fact own the book "That Quail, Robert" however it has been sitting on my bookshelf for the longest time and I have never actually opened it. You make it sound worthwhile so I'm totally set now on reading it...who knows maybe there will even be a future post about it?!?!
Thanks for your quail question,
Hannah
P.S.- A quail's favorite place to be is in it's sandbox so if you do end up becoming a quail owner be sure get one of those :)
I also have a question I have two quails one gent and other lady and I buy them in march and now its June they haven't lay one egg in which month will they lay egg?
ReplyDeleteGood question! The lady will most probably be the only one laying an egg, if you know what I mean ;) As for when, quails typically start laying when they are at least 10 weeks old.
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