![]() ![]() ![]() These Quail are becoming very popular and are a great addsion to your stock and also a fantactic bird to get you started in keeping livestock. They will usually arrive on Thursday or Friday. Please open and inspect your shipment on arrival. Quail are either shipped by our couriers or you are welcome to pick them up from the farm. Bobwhites can be put with other types of quail after arrival. They will have started laying eggs by 24 weeks and are prolific layers. They mature in 16 weeks and dress between 7-9 oz. These wonderful little birds are great flyers, excellent game birds in an aviary to clean up spilt seeds from feeders above, or for training your gun dogs, and just fun to raise and not so much these days but they are a delicious eating bird. So we know they are will suited to handling the British weather all year round if they are given shelter to get out of the cold winds and driving rain. We have had birds escape from the pens in past years and they have stayed around the farm all winter and gone on to rear young the following spring and summer. They’ll eat seeds that get dropped on the ground (but will need good quality game pellets to keep them in good condition) They have a great call and I really don’t know anyone that does not like the sound they make.īobwhite quail are not native to the UK so should not be released into the wild. These birds are great to have running around in the bottom of your flight or aviary. Their name derives from their distinctive whistle (“bobwhite”). The bobwhites will live in coveys (flocks of two or more families) but a trio of birds is best suited for an aviary if sharing with other birds. These patches are caramel-coloured on the females.
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