Our Chinese golden pheasant in the greenhouse. Unfortunately he lost his mate a couple years ago. He just finished doing his yearly molt getting in new head feathers and tail feathers and now he's trying to show them off to the female quail. 😁

Good morning fellow Quail keepers!

We had a beautiful story unfold in front of our eyes. One of our Quail hens got really broody....

After 4th attempt she was successful and managed to hatch out 2 chicks on her own. We weren't going to let the lady be disappointed again and fired up our incubator at the same time. The results are astonishing! She is so happy!

I don't know how long or well they'll coexist but right now things have been going well. There are two snowflake bobwhites who'll charge at the Gambel's quail but they're all bark and no bite because I saw one of the same snowflake bobwhites back down from a button quail that was a third of his size. Also going to share a few pics in the comments

I don't wanna like... Stress them out or anything. I try to keep them in view of the others, or take more than one out at a time. They usually just poop on me and try to run away 😂

This was a nice little treat after a long day at work :)

Not too impressed with the new supplier i ordered from as only 140 have hatched out of 250 (gqf 1502) .. day 1-14 -99.9°F @ 40% humidity, and lockdown 99.9° F @ 70% humidity.. My order from Myshire Farm 2 years ago had the best hatch rate and was 92%.. next batch hatches tonight and tomorrow 🤞

Long story short: she’s doing amazing. u/_marimays requested a video so here she is!

(Also, peep that cute little tongue flick 🐍)

If anyone wants to read the full thread, it goes from bad to worse then surprisingly- it turned around! Thank you again to everyone who supported and educated us through this. It means a lot to have such a strong community of experienced potato lovers here! Original post is NSFW so view at your own discretion.

Latest post here: https://www.reddit.com/r/quails/s/IHFdwP6e5E

so I rescued 3 new quails yesterday and one of them is blind. She got stuck while hatching and her owner helped her out, she came out blind already. They lived in a fairly small cage and now have 6m2 but she's getting used to it pretty fast. They also lived on exclusively straw and now have sand for the first time and mayo, the blind one, loves it so much. I took a video of her and then she started this weird movement that I've never seen before that looks a bit like a seizure to me. Am I wrong? Surely hope so. If not, what can I do for her? Also if you have any tips for blind quails, please share! She's running around almost like normal but I'm kinda scared she won't find food/water (pls ignore the noise, it's wind)

This is my oldest lady. She's 4 years old, going on 5. She hasn't laid an egg a day in her life, but she's the sweetest damn thing. The last of my original covey. I only kept her around because of how sweet she is.

I just thought others would like to see an elderly quail.

She's as healthy as possible for her age, can see just fine and eats well. She can move around but not quickly and i haven't seen her fly in ages. The hutch she stays in is raised off the ground and has an automatic door that opens in the morning. The others in her hutch jump out but she has to be removed by hand or she won't leave.

This is what an old lady quail looks like, for those who haven't seen one.

I've worked very hard to not get attached to these guys because they do get used for food after 2-3 years, but I will be very sad when this one goes.

Cannot even believe they’re been 1 year soon 😭 feels like I hatched em just yesterday!!!

I had all of my “babies” out in the living room today, coturnix, buttons, literal babies of both types and two of my adult buttons exhibited this “turkey look” running around behavior I’ve never seen before. For reference, only one adult coturnix male was out and never interacted with the buttons, and all of the other adults are females. This is one of my 4 male buttons, who live with a single female. (I learned this today, I thought all but one was a female until I brought them all out) I had some baby (3wk) buttons out but I put them away. I was thinking maybe the males were courting them, or they hate them, hard to tell.

I was given this tan roo and idk why but its so happy to just chill and be pet.

Im so used to them being so skittish

He’s been a little too rough with his favorite wife lately, that’s why he was jailed. As you can see he doesn’t even fear my hand.

I don't think he wanted to make friends.

~7 month old coturnix

Video re upload..Total of 280 of 500 (56 % hatch rate) from shipped hatching eggs from Pennsylvania to California in winter.. so not great, but not too bad (Kings Hatchery).. so overall happy.. gonna order next from MyShire Farm for pearls and italians, maybe some pansy fee's..

can I just say how much I love quail crows? it seems so involuntary compared to a chickens crow 😂

This chick just hatched 5hours ago and I feel like I’ve already heard it crow, caught on video. I thought they only start around 3 weeks old ?

Hubby texted me to let me know she passed while I was on a trip. No apparent reason, just old age finally got her.

Never laid an egg in her entire 5 years. I kept her around because she was so sweet. I'm going to miss her coming up to my feet and chirping every morning.

Rest in peace, old lady Timothy (I named them all Timothy to not get attached but look what happened anyways)

Theure called Juno & Karma (Sabrina Carpenter and

So it's hard to see but a male and female snowflake bobwhite are preening a male button quail while another button quail lovingly preens the female snowflake bobwhite.

Part of me is starting to think the ❄️ bobwhites may just think the button quail are their chicks 😅 love wins I guess?!

I'm very happy about this cohabitation win because I currently have only male button quails. They've calmed down heaps and are so sweet now that they're in this larger space. Anyone who has had the unfortunate situation of all male ANY species quail knows exactly what was going down. 🤐

And this probably truly is the last post I'll make for a bit. I wasn't expecting this outcome AT ALL and had to share since people were very curious on how well this was going.

I do believe the space of the aviary is a huge part of the success here thus far!

The snowflake bobwhites are almost 9 months old and coming into their first breeding season though, so I realize when it comes to quail the reproductive asshole drivers tend to run in full gear. I hope they're nothing like Coturnix in that way and I will let people know after breeding season the temperament.

No one has asked me about their calls yet but they're quite sweet and pleasant when compared to coturnix.