Aussie Finch Forum

We just finished making the housing in the avairy for the quail i think it looks good and will make a nice house for the Quail.
Please let me know if i have done something wrong,in the pics i have not put the seed tray in as yet.
Quails are hiding in there house i will get some pics of them later.
Thanks to iaos from lending me a book on Quails.
Pic below

Harv

Looks great Harvey. At least they are using the house you spent time making for them.

Looking good.

No worries Harvey. Did you end up getting normal coloured quails?

Just make sure there isn't too much water in that dish when the chicks come along.

Yes ian i think there normals, the male has a nice red colour in his feathers.
I will try to get pics,they are still a bit shy and go back to the house when i go near the avairy.They just need time to settle in.
I got them from Johns and i got the water dish from him


Harv

You should have no problem breeding them...In one aviary I run 5 hens with 1 cockbird. Last nest that hatched was all the 17 eggs the hen was sitting on, before that was another nest of 17 =7 hatched. Another 2 hens are on eggs atm, one is on 7, not sure about the other one.

I just got another 11 from the girl that raised 11 of the 13 from the last clutch . When they breed they certainly breed . Have fun with them Harv . I love fuzzy quail cuddles when they are little .

At work we just hatched fourteen bobwhites from one nest, a king quail on seven eggs another bobwhite on eight eggs and a californian on seventeen. Quite the year for quails!!

Not having much luck with them breeding just yet..
Any tips ??????

Brett

Greens and mealworms, they usually do the rest.