I'm new to the forum and new to quails and I'm looking for any information you can give me about king quails...
I recently adopted a male king quail (who we have named Kingy) from the lovely lady at the pet shop after he had been given to her by an old man who was going into a nursing home n wanted him to go to a good home so my hubby and i were chosen for our strong love and care of all our different breeds of finches.
we put him in our big aviary with our flock of zebras,double barred and emblema finches. He seemed ok but a little lost on his own....
so....
we brought a pair of king quail from the pet shop. not knowing much or being able to find out much about quails we put them all together in the big aviary... within seconds the new smaller and younger male started bashing up Kingy. he was jumping on his back and pecking his head all while the female chased the two of them around. obviosly this was a territorial thing so we have put KIngy in our smaller aviary with our gouldians and he is so happy and calm. He calls all day starting first thing when my husband turns the outside light on to start getting ready for work all the way through till dusk. We LOVE him!
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but back to the other quails who we have named Micky & Mallory after the main charactors in Natural born killers as they are so aggressive.. these two are just weird as far as im concerned! we have put a box down for the to nest in and a few potted plants so they can choose where to nest but the wont use anything but the ground to lay on. they also spend most of their time laying on the ground sleeping and very little time being active like my other quail who just doesnt stop! lol
there has been no sign of them mating and its starting to worry me because the little i have found says they breed well...alsao the male hardly ever calls??
if anyone can tell me whats going on with them that would be great
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thank you