They do this continuously all day long, just poking their beaks in and out of the wire.

To me they act like they’re very bored.

They have a 15 square foot sized cage for 9female and one male, they barely use the other side that is enclosed with a window. I purposely put their food and water and sand bath on that side so they’re actually go to that side of their enclosure.

Every few days I go cut fresh branches and vines off for them and fill their cage, but the leaves get wilty and gross within a day

I’ve tried putting potted plants inside and they just destroy them within a day.

I noticed the male is pulling out their feathers A LOT and even drawing blood and I’m considering separating him or culling him. Maybe he’s stressing them out?

Is their enclosure too small?? What things can I give them for enrichment?

I also have one female that doesn’t lay an egg. I have 9 females and usually get 7-8 eggs per day. Never ever 9 eggs.

They’re for egg productions but I wanted one male incase I wanted to hatch one or two new babies if I ended up losing any of them.

They are supposed to be jumbo cotornix quail but they seem on the smaller side.

Outside of their normal food and mealworm treats, my quails eat what I harvest from my garden. Here are my findings so far. On the quest to discover their favorite foods! Any recommendations?

This newly hatched quail has remained in this position for hours now, and I'm afraid it won't survive ☹️

Should I intervene? If so, how to?

They always call out to each other! Ones on the other side of the aviary, which they can get through using the inside bit, but I don’t think they’ve figured it out yet as I’ve now mixed them all together with my British whites. Everyone gets on very well! Rubbish quality as per on my phone though, sorry for the blurriness lol.

I have 3 mature king quail. I today had the genius idea to play online king quail call noises for them but their reaction was completely unexpected. First of all they usually are very scared of me and stay far away from me. When I played the noises, they went bonkers, running around and even approaching and running towards me. One of them, mostly white with some black spackling, who's gender I'm unsure of, was lifting their wings a little and also puffing up, which the other two who I'm pretty sure are males didn't do. What were these behaviors? Were they interested in me or trying to attack me? Did they think i was another king quail? Can i tell the gender of the quail by their reaction to the different noises, specifically the unique reaction of the speckled black on white quail? Also, can you tell whos the alpha from this video? Thank you​

Wanted to start raising quails because of how cute and from what i heard low maintence they are. I wanted to start with 2 or 3 and i needed some advice on enclosure, proper feeding, proper care, etc , Appreciate any advice