5 Easy Tips to Breed QUAILS Naturally 

As for tip number 6, house them as a pair! Too often you see people mention 1-2 or even 1-3 as 'best practice'. I've got a couple of pairs that if I wouldn't stop them they'd raise 5-6 clutches, which wouldn't be good for the hen's health. Also tip number 7 (but its for bird keeping in general) don't breed too many young, always keep in mind the space you'd need to foster them. If you start breeding something for the first time start with 1, maybe 2, pairs. This is part of the reason I'm preventing them from raising more clutches, I don't have the space to house another 20 adult quail. They'll get their next round next year if the space becomes available again ;)

You inspire me! I finally moved my caged quail into a very natural environment and was amazed at how much less cleaning was necessary. I put 7 quail in, and when I took them out for cleaning...I had 12!!!

Dear Mr. Aviary, I have said it before, and I will say it again, I very much enjoy following how the birds in your aviary are doing. This video was of great interest to me, because I like quail, these little ‘chickens’. You gave those interested very good advice. I was particularly interested that one should have naturally-raised quail in order to have them set. This doesn’t surprise me. Like many breeds of chickens, the setting instinct has been bred out of them. You have a lovely apiary, and, if I were a quail, I would be happy to have a home in it. It was very nice to see that the hen hatched five chicks this time. I hope they all thrive. Sincerely, Larry

I love the effort you've gone to in providing a great environment for your quail. They've very lucky compared to most!

Thank you for a very educational video :). I have a few pairs of kingquails that never wanted to brood or start nesting on their cages. As soon as i let them free in the greenhouse they made nests and are now caring for their second group of little baby quails. So, like you said, the environment is very important to get them broody. Even the fathers are great and are helping with taking care of the chicks.

My quails make their nests in plastic plant pots turned on their sides and half buried in the substrate. Also my males help brood the eggs with the females and are good fathers.

I love your mentality and attitude towards this cute little birds, the world would be a much better place, if everybody would provide natural environment for their animals. I have 6 quails in a 5 meter long run but I take them sometimes to a mobile cage and pull them around the garden to discover every corner and eat as much worms and bugs as they can find. They enjoy it so much, that they start to jump around if they see me coming :) They know, I'll take them for a "walk" :)

Sweet babies!! I love your button quails so much 💖💖💖💖💖

So cuuuute!!! Your button quails are adorable 💕💕💕💕💕

Thank You so much.

Thank you for this its simple and exactly what i was looking for this was awesome

Your intro is very catchy. I like it. Your very informative , thank you im learning alot by your videos.

My dream is to see my quail hatching thier own chicks naturally

Thankyou

Hello. Your quail babies are so cute. You have some great best practices to successful breeding of your quail. Take care and looking forward to your next video.

That was a cool Intro

I love your button quails so much!!❤❤❤ they’re so cute aahhh

Very nice

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Thank you for this wonderful information. I am planning to build a similar aviary for my quail. I would love to get them back to their natural state as much as possible.

Sir berry nice your quail

So cute

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When I used to have an aviary, I couldn't get the King Quail to breed no matter what until i planted it out. Almost as soon as they had some natural cover they started making and keeping nests. No special food was provided. I always made sure to have one female more than males. A word of warning that newly-hatched King Quail will escape through 'budgie wire' like it's not even there.

THANK YOU!! I really need to make a bigger enclosure! Can you do an enclosure tour please?!

Super intro. Thankyou for advice given in this Video. I am currently setting up a habitat for some button quails in my Avairy, purchasing some at the end of next week. Would you have any tips for a beginner?

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Yeah farmer jim

What genre of your quails

very informative video, what are the chances about farm breeds to hatch their eggs ?

Hey Mr. Aviary, I got four quail about 2 weeks ago and they have seemed fine. I keep them in a wabbitat cage with some hay and leaves at the bottom to rest their feet occasionally. I also have a box with holes for their food and a metal water dispenser for water. For their bath, I give them paper shreds which they LOVE!! and every wednesday I give them their sandbath, for a day to go crazy in their sand 😂 I am going to breed them and sell eggs to make some cash ( note i dont have a job, im a little young even though i keep my quails alive somehow 🙃) I am soon going to try and make a cage similar to yours soon, when i have some wood and wire to make it with. Any tips with quail? I am open to ANY suggestions.

How to we find the male and female quail or the. Where can i buya .

I have Japanese quails and I am really hoping I can give them a chance to sit on their own eggs. Bring the nature back in order. I am glad I found your video. But I still don’t know where to begin. I need a plan. 😅

Beautiful! I have a few Quail in a large hutch. Can I just use sand on the base?

Hi mr aviary I have 8 quails 2 male and 6 female is that good for breeding i set up my cage for a natural habitat is the combination good or not tell me what the best combination that works great for you there breed are Japanese quails. Love your videos from :(*): Australia

So do you keep breeding quails as pairs? Another channel mentioned seeing her quail form pairs in her natural environment pen - has that worked for you or do you have to keep separate breeding pens?

I have had 2 of my females before they always lay eggs in the corner of the cage and one of them started to sit on the eggs and I thought she was gonna hatch them but she abandoned them after like 2 days. And the same thing happened later with another female

Can you list some plants I can use in my quail enclosure

I had a question in regards to breeding and maintaining the health of the brids, especially hens. Is it a good idea to keep a pair together for life, or is it best to split the pair after a time so that the hens can recover for a time? When I kept coturnix, it was different. I had multiple birds together, but only because I had a large enough space for them, plus plenty of hiding spots as well as plenty of food and water. And yes, I always monitored the birds for signs of bullying, sickness, etc. But since these are buttons, I was curious and had to ask for anytime in the future, and everyone always had different opinions with different outcomes, some often very similar that it might as well be set as a gold standard. I want to make sure that I plan things accordingly, as I intend to put my future pets to work (and by 'work', I mean to use in an enclosed garden bed for pest control and fertilizing my garden, using it as recreational.activity for my birds before beinging them back indoors for the day). Ypur thoughts on the matter, as well as the question in the beginning. Any advice would surely help me out as an urban homesteader of sorts. Thanks!

How many can you house together and what ratio of males to females should you have,thanks for your help

How do u know quails gender

I didn't do ANYTHING special. On the contrary, we just moved here I switched up their habitats (got 3 coupled atm), they had just had a mix up (group fell apart into 3 couples). So, lots and lots of stress for a bird (they are tame, they handled it very well). I even decided to skip hatching eggs myself this season and focus on chicken chicks to add to my indoor aviary. To help with quail breeding. Specifically for that purpose.. I had the chicks ONE week And my hen started sitting on her eggs and even laid 2 eggs outside of the nest and chased away her man (I have to emergency buy extra hens for my poor man). She is trying to hatch her clutch! Amidst all ado! 😂 Quail are something special ❤❤

What kind of bedding do you use in your pens?

Came here because I found about 5 eggs in my garden box. The next day there were 7. Now there are 11. I had been growing zinnias in the box and first discovered the eggs while watering the flowers. The day I found the 7 eggs, I frightened a quail that had been sitting on them and she(?) ran away. I spilled some kettle popcorn in the box and then thought maybe I shouldn't interfere. After a couple days the quail came back and laid the remaining eggs. Now we are in this routine of the zinnias baking in the sun all day until the quail leaves so I can water them. She comes back some time before I get up in the morning because when I come out (even as early as 5am), she's already sitting on them. I don't know how to care for quails and I think she's probably got it all under control but I also don't want to do any harm. My flowers are shot to hell. Their watering schedule is so off and they look bad but I don't want to upset the Mom sitting on the eggs by attempting to water around her. It's over 100 degrees out. I'm afraid to offer food because: (a.) I don't want to upset the natural order she probably is used to and (b.) I don't want to attract predators or pests to disturb the environment. Any advice?

What high protein foods u use to feed them?

What if there were 30 or more same cage ? Will they still incubate them

hi i have a problem i have 4 king quail but when they lay there eggs they eat them what should i do

Could you keep normal size quail coturnix with button quail, I read button quail would hatch coturnix quail eggs. it’s that true ?

What kind of male quail do you have with all the colors?

Where do you get your king quail? I’ve been wanting to find some with a natural coloring

Hi I'm new to owning button quails, so here is my question. can you please ,tell me some ways to cover and protect the head of one of my females as she's nearly lost all here head feathers and is becoming seperated from the rest of my quails . They have been all living together in a super large indoor quail- bird- room. I bought them 5 months ago from someone who wanted to dispose of them as he had too many, (so it was more of a rescue) so I got his group of 3 males and 2 females which always was fine, until recently when one male was getting aggressive towards his partner quail when mating. ????? Seperating her from this group has not worked and only caused extreme depression in her. So I'm wondering if there is something I can put on her tiny head (that is now bald and bleeding a small bit. ) To at least let it heal without going through the stress of it constantly being picked open, or in having to separate her again.. and than at least she can stay in the group but her head can heal everytime he mates so aggressively with her.

Hi there.I have a very big aviary.Can i keep chinese quil all together?Will they still breed?

I’m new to quails. I have 2 pairs of king quails, they each have their own enclosure. Both female quails have a clutch of eggs. 10 eggs and 11 eggs, one hen is quite broody. But both have now stopped laying, is that normal? Thank you

Hi! I have 4 (3 hens and one rooster) and the local pet store has two roosters that have been there for forever and i feel bad for them. Since my rooster will only mate with one hen, would it be possible to get the two pet store males for the other hens, or will they fight? I do have three cages so I could separate them into pairs, but if I do that currently (leaving the mated pair in one cage and the other girls in another) they will call to each other and be sad all night until I move them back in with one another. Would getting the two roosters be a bad idea?

I have 2 wild roaming my garden, is it possible to befriend/tame them or just let them do their thing...

how about button quails? are they the same as normal quails?

How do you catch your birds in the outdoor aviary?

Hi i have Japanese quils and i wanted to hatch their eggs pls suggest me....

What type of quail are these? Are they button quail? I want to breed coturnix or bobwhite quail naturally but not button quail, is it possible to do that?

What species of quail is this?

My cortunix quails refuse to enter the shade or hiding spot I got them…

What is egg food? Store bought or home made?

What is "egg food"?

What eat tell me please

Hello I'm sorry to say I just lost a male button quail to a cat . And my female is alone should i get more females and males and try to get them to live together

One of my female button quail went broody for about 2 days and then she just abandoned the nest. It is currently winter and my quail are not laying eggs. I am pretty much doing everything mentioned in the video so how can I make my quail go broody?

You speak very well but please try to raise your volume at the end of each sentence as it is a bit difficult to understand.

Do we need to help with baby quail to feed them or how do they eat my quail have baby’s but this is the first time not sure what to do

Hello i have 2 female and 2 males, one female has laid an egg, but the other abandoned her nest after a few days, what do I do?

Hi, Mr. Aviary! What kinds of quail are easy to breed, apart from the button quail?

How long do they breed because my button quail has been breeding for 16 days but nothing has hatcht yet

Do you have Chicken

What qails do you have?

Is there an issue if siblings mate? Or should I be buying new quails so that I'm not inbreeding?

Can we feed Vegetables and Fruits How many do we feed him ?

Please keep quail bird reprodution

Can u make a video whe u haevest ur birds?

Quail is both singular and plural

My male is setting on eggs from two female.

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what breed is your quail?

They get more aggressive with too much protein? I know they can get too aggressive with too little protein...

Can male quails go broody?

You are right, my female was an incubated one it didn't go broody still after laying 27 eggs

My quails feather loss home made feed given aney medicine

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It’s very convenient keeping quail in cages but so sad.

Not true about the incubator unless you live in a cold climate ..

did i trick you? read more

I decided to move on all my Chinese painted quail about 3 years ago, and after seeing this I might try pick up a pair or two for the ground breeding aviaries this year😆 I bred hundreds of them at one point but rarely did they naturally raise chicks

What eat tell me please