However, due to their different instinctual behaviors, they may not mesh well as they age. Still, quail require a different feed as a chick than a chicken chick, so ensuring each gets what they need can prove to be nearly impossible.
Bantams are small chickens , and quail can most likely hold their own against an aggressive banty chicken, especially if you keep the small bantam breeds. However, if you have a nasty bantam rooster, you will most likely lose quail to the aggressive roo. A free-range scenario might be one of the most plausible options for those who are confident they can pull off raising both quail and chickens in the same space, but only if there is ample room.
Feeding your birds separately will continue to be an issue, and the concern for diseases does not go away. You can, however, teach your quail to recall in the evenings—the process of releasing quail, and leaving a few hens behind in the cage to call the free-range birds back in the evening—until they know where home is.
Therefore, they are leaving droppings, and possible disease and bacteria , for the quail to contract when they return at the end of the day. Some people raise quail and chickens together, and most of them do so on a free-range basis; however, it is worth nothing that quail do not free-range as smoothly as chickens , and they have many more predators to be concerned about. In a nutshell, it may be easier, and safer, to raise these two species of birds separately; however, if you understand the problems can arise, you can come up with your own solutions to combat anything.
I had a couple broody bantams hatch some quail this year. They all free range together in the backyard. Sometimes the quail will roost with the hens and sometimes they roost outside on top of the coop.
Honestly minus one bully Easter egger who currently has a coop all to her sassy self and rotates range time everyone gets along great! I keep wild game food for the but they do have to share with the hens and other local yahoos squirrels. I love my backyard nature plot. I hope they decide to stay forever. Make no mistake — this is a rat, and he had been partying in my chicken feeder. How do I know? The shape of the ears, the length of the tail and its size overall. For more information about how to tell rats from mice, see this article.
On our homestead, we raise Coturnix quail as an accompaniment to our flock of chickens, and learning how to start quail farming was simple. Coturnix quail lay daily just like chickens, and their eggs are spotted and speckled.
In many parts of the world, quail eggs are considered a delicacy. Their eggs are smaller, tiny really, so you will have to use more of them, about 3 quail eggs per one chicken egg. But their quality is comparable to chicken eggs.
As the days get shorter, you will have to use a supplementary light to keep them laying. In my experience, keeping more than one species of poultry for eggs is necessary for a homestead; you never know when disease or a predator might devastate your chicken flock. Just like you would not put your entire retirement account into one stock, diversifying your egg sources is a good idea. If you live in an urban area, one of the main advantages to raising quail for their eggs is that cities and towns that do not permit chickens might have exceptions for quail, or might leave them out of legislation altogether.
They live entirely out of the sight of other people, in an attractive outbuilding, but the quail are still kept out of the elements. As a general rule of thumb, quail need one square foot of space per bird.
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