My quail now expect me each morning, they are both trying really hard each day to fly out of their "enclosure" an into my hands and getting closer to achieving it each day, thus their wings are getting stronger, their routine is,, I feed them breakfast then I take them out,, they follow me around because they want a cuddle, so I sit with my morning coffee whilst they spend an hour or so getting cuddles and then head back to their "enclosure" unadded without any need to train them to do so.. NO CONCEPT OF CAGE...Once their wings get strong enough and their feathers developed enough they will fly to me for cuddles and fly back to their "enclosure"... no training required just communication routine and mutual respect and love....Doing what I have is not easy the sacrifice has to come from me and my investment of effort, whilst being humble enough to not see them as an object I own but a friend I lucky to have... They are healthy happy and being who they wish to be rather than what I demand they become..

I keep European Quail which are VERY jumpy compared to domesticated Japanese Quail but by feeding some live mealworms regularly they have become very tame now and will take them from my hand. Lovely little birds.

Highly recommend the method of holding meal worms in your hand for them to eat. It helps them associate your hands and the opening of the enclosure with something more positive (getting treats) and I have actually seen mine stand and wait with anticipation because of all the meal worms they have been hand fed. Sometimes they will even approach my hands out of curiosity. I don't think it will necessarily help with physically handling them but it will make them less afraid of hands moving around inside their enclosure. It's very effective.

Your videos are very informative and we love our quail. They love us only when food and treats are involved.

Thanks for all your efforts in your videos, always enjoy watching and learning

I raise my quail to be vicious! I sell them as guard quail...

Good Vid man. To the point good examples and not a bunch of dumb music that is unrelated. Keel the videos coming bro

Thank you Chris. I talk to mine, they seem to do a happy dance when talked to. The roosters crow more when I talk to them too. Maybe my voice freaks them out but they always seem interested in what I have to say. lol

Thanks for the knowledge 😊

I have 70 quail, and not a one of them are afraid of me. They fight each other to get in my hand. I haven't had them very long, so the previous owner (my son and fam) spent a lot of time with them. They're really friendly!

My quail are quite tame. They pay no attention to me when I approach their cage. Some even come closer. My wife says that it’s because I brooded over them like a mother hen. It’s very cool to walk out in the morning and see nearly all my 26 four week old quail lounging around on the open side of the cage observing everything.

The short answer is: You bribe them with mealworms. They're quail kryptonite.

Great video and I can’t wait to get my own quails 🇦🇺🦘

When Amy comes to the flock area, the males start crowing at her while she collects eggs and gives them water & food. She has them trained that when she tabs the door, the quail back away and they don't fly out. It did take about a week to train them if you go out 2x a day.

Thank you I am currently hatching tuxedo, quails and you’re still in their baby form and take a wild. Hopefully this will help.

I recommend mealworms from babies. You do need to freeze then boil for a minute so you can cut them into bits - whole ones are too big for them. My quail jump at me when they see me now and some will fly to my hand. The ones who fly to me have all been Golden Giants and I find these have always been the easiest to tame.

I use small bird bird seeds to use as a treat and tame! I also tame from babies the realy cute ones like silver quails with white faces and a few others [ 4 pets ]. All my beginners breeders were trained to eat out of my hand. ( sometimes a couple quails stand by the cage door, I will put food in my hand and they will it the food in my hand then run to the food container to eat! ) Strainge but I like it and they want me to hand feed them every once in a while.

We are hatching quails, this is my new go to man. 9 quails!

We just got our first covey. At two weeks old, the standards are more athletic and always run from us; the Italian goldens are not quite as flighty but still panic; the English White (A&M) quail are very calm and will let us pet them while they feed and sleep. They’ll also sit in my palm for a moment where the other breeds immediately attempt escape.

Tamed quail are very sweet little birds. :0)

I keep mine only for eggs and spend a lot of time at home with them. Mine love meal worms and I try to keep enough food and water in so that if they don't see me until mid morning they have enough. I did let them out the other day at about 5 pm and by 6 pm the two sergeant major roosters were calling them back into the pen. They were doing this last night too but it's been too wet so I put them in the shed. Only the smallest seem to bolt, but we can get to the neighbours' gardens, with permission to get them back. Just got to watch out for the cats in the evening and rats in the night so I always get them back in.

Hi thanks for the tips my quails are getting use to me, new sub btw

THX...

I have had mine on the ground in a chicken coop the last 3 weeks and they are very content now.

Cheers!

I haven’t met an animal I couldn’t connect with and “tame” (#1 rule is that tame looks different for each species and individual). My hatching eggs will be here soon; I can’t hardly wait!

Great advice 👍 shaun London 👍

I have a old Guinea pig tray that hangs on side of coop, i keep oyster shell in it & I add mealworms every morning & they run to tray when i come up.

I have learned a lot from your videos.thanks for all the information.I'm very soon starting my own quail farming.one question though how do I calculate profitability in layers quail farming?it is easy to calculate if we are raising them for meat.we bring and raise them and then sell them and you substract the cost you got from cost you spend on them and you get your profit withim 45 days but it his hard to do with laying quails because they don't lay eggs daily and then they keep on laying eggs for so long that it is hard to keep all the tracks.

Thanks

this helps alot since my bird is super overprotective when I try to grab him

I honestly don't handle mine much but my kids do and our quail are very tame. I don't know if that helps or not. Also when they were babies they were held almost daily as I had to change the brooder a lot.

I'm going to do some experimenting.....I want some garden quail....I have seen this and it's awesome but you have to handle your quail while they are babies, so right now I'm hatching about 20 out and I will pick the best of best to do this. Then I will set up my garden appropriately, basically predator proof it sky and ground. See how it works they are really good bug control. And I have time to spare and as long as I already have quail eggs I'm no really losing anything. Just a challenge for my self.

I sit their cage next to my chair and I noticed after a few days they are more relaxed when I go in the cage.

Mine are too tame. I have several hundred. I keep most of them in a 12x20 flight pen. I have to watch where I step or I'll step on them. Come the 1st of October tho, I'll be thinning them out and keeping just the jumbo.

Chris! My question is when collecting eggs for incubation do you spray the 50/50 On right when you collect or wait till you have all the eggs ready to go in? We only have 12 Quail so it takes us for five days to collect as many as we need to incubate. I was unsure about the 50/50 solution but man it really does help your hatch rate! also could you add the link for Kickstarter I need to purchase one of your solar lights. thx!

how do you keep the bottom of the cage clean the wire its building up and I scrape it..? mine are so tame 17 they never have pecked me they dont move away when I go in the cage I can pet anytime and they have never once have any of them gotten out and I leave door open when feeding....I talk to them alot and thank the momas for the eggs every day..

What size is that food container I'd like to make one

Does anyone know what else (apart from the watermelons mentioned in the video) can be given as snacks/rewards for quails? I only gave mine cottage cheese with oatmeal and I would love to add something else to their diet

Hey Chris, question for you: have you had any issues with raccoons attaching your quail? I had 3 hens recently get killed by one and he was able to get them from outside the cage. Wondering how your setup protects against that.

Thank you for all of your great tips. I've been watching your videos as I've just gotten my quail June 30 2019. I have a female who's just started showing a behavior that caused me pause. I know that parrots will adjust their crop, so it's what I'm hoping she's doing. She's stretching her neck up and gaping her mouth. She did this a few times in short succession. I started researching this and only came up with "gapeworm". Do you have any thoughts on if it's a natural behavior or something more menacing?

Hi Chris my male quail star have red and double the size of the area he produces baby lol Did you know what couse that? Sorry about my English ;;;; I love all your videos 💕

I have five quail in a big area but whenever I go in they all run to the same corner and stay still. I mean, they don't run away, but they look up at me as if they are terrified. They are still really cute. What do you think I should feed them to accosiate me with treats?

Chris, did you use a hole saw on those containers? Did they give you much trouble?

As with all animals, time, patience and trust. 😀

What quail do you prefer to raise for meat.

Them girls are camera shy😂

Do you think you can do a video about keeping quail in a garage / inside? I know that you used to keep them in your garage from your videos posted around 3 years ago. I got my entire garage sealed so it doesn't get too hot and I won't be able to hear them outside or inside the house. Luckily, it was already insulated on the garage door / walls, so it didn't cost too much. I designed my cage like the stacking cage w/ roll out trays from the Ahola Quail video, except the back and sides are 4x2's, so the quails can't poop out the sides. All the poop has been falling to the dog crate trays below with no extra mess. I also added zeolite to the bottom, which reduces the smell greatly and I haven't had flies at all. The main issues I'm having now are the feathers going everywhere and them wasting food. I can't really put one of those no-waste feeders inside the cage, because it would take up too much room and would prevent the eggs from rolling. Do you have any ideas for a high capacity feeder that can be fastened to the outside of a cage? I'm using 1x2 hardware cloth, which allows them to stick their heads though. Also, what do you think is the highest they can stick their heads over to get food and water? And are you going to do the stream on the 3rd or 5th, because of the 4th?

How do you go about with deworming quails?

please tell me how i can interact with my 2 quails that live in a transparent storage box without them running and trying to fly

Hey! I never had any type of birds before. Right now i have 2 baby quails! They arent tamed at all. They are about 5 weeks right now. I was just wondering what kind of fruits, vegetibles can they aculy eat? I dont wanna poison them but i do wanna tame them. Can you recomend somthing they can eat? Thanks! Ok sorry if bother you. Bye!

Will quail stay in the yard if it’s not fenced in?

I only have one tree in my yard it's a cedar tree is it ok to put my cage under the tree

Meal worms is how I've gotten mine to calm down around me, thats the only thing they will eat out of my hand :)

When I bring them fruit or bread crumbs they just leave them on the floor, they don't eat them.

I'm planning on getting quails... What breed could you suggest? I want them for eggs and to be kept as companions. Any breed that's not aggressive would be nice.

Hi Chris.. I have two male and two female quails in same coop.. but my females are not laying eggs why?? I bought them last month only.. now only started to have quails in my garden... pl give me a suggestions...

what about the japanisse quail?

👏👏👏👍

Quail eat like cornish cross chickens. 😁

How can someone raise a quail so well that it sits on their shoulder? I have one that hatched in my hand and i've tried so hard to train it. It's slightly tamer than the others, but still scared. I'm getting some pearl quail soon and I would like to know how I could tame one from hatching to be a household pet.

so basically they need a snickers every here nd there.. getting Hangry all the time

Will you be doing a live event tonight? Wish you could send private messages on KZfaq!

can I teach them tricks

Can you eat quail when process them if sick?

Buwung apa tuh man

They seem skittish no matter what

they are not being good specim NAUGHTY SPESIMEN NAUGHTY!

Slightly my ass. Lol

Hey Chris ,can i use microwave as incubator ?

Be inspired to interact with nature in a far more nurturing manner...not because you should but because you can....make the choice...The magic of training animals is in not having to train animals lmfao......doesn't makes sense linearly but it does make total sense dynamically...My birds are only one month old🤣🤣🤣🤣😎😎👀👀 Soon I will be able to call them from anywhere in my flat and they will fly to me learning how to navigate with a high level of precision.....no longer clumsy or accident prone, A year later and I will be able to call them from anywhere in the area and they will fly home not for food but for my company... it's not just possible it's a reality we once experienced a very very long time ago,, the real reality behind the story of Avatar.....

Learn how to ask the correct questions rather than chasing answers...What shift in your pet quails mentality occurs when they do not have a concept of being CAGED, and how does it change their perspective of the environment you have built for them which includes you under your care and guidance? Come correct and you gain access to that which most cannot see or comprehend....