Baby Scaled Quail

Males or cocks have cream colored throats while females or hens have a brownish colored throat.

Baby scaled quail. Mcmurray hatchery hatches the highest quality day old baby chicks ducks geese turkeys and other fowl. Bobwhite and other quail are used to train hunting dogs and are hunted themselves. Quail mature in just 16 weeks when raised for meat will begin laying eggs at 24 weeks and are prolific layers. Scaled quail usually stay in coveys of 17 to 23 until march or april during which time males initiate fighting and pairs begin to form separately to repeat the reproductive process.

Meat eggs and pleasure. Quail are not difficult to raise in captivity and adapt well. Gambels quail are gregarious birds of the desert southwest where coveys gather along brushy washes and cactus studded arroyos to feed. Males and females both sport a bobbing black topknot of feathers.

Scaled quail are bluish gray in color with a scaled feather pattern on a patch of their breast. People raise quail chicks for the same reasons they raise other kinds of poultry. Northern bobwhite quail are great flyers excellent for training hunting dogs and a delight to raise. California valley quail chicks california valley quail chicks 315 california valley quail chicks california valley quail chicks 000 california valley quail chicks 315.

The number of quail is crucial when roosting. Callipepla squamata pallida brewster 1881 northern scaled quail. These elegant brownish gray birds have an understated crest with a buffy top and a marvelous pattern of dark brown and gray buff on the breast and belly. Bobwhites can be put with other types of quail after arrival.

We carry the widest selection of rare and exotic breeds and poutry supplies to assist homesteaders small farmers hobbyists and backyard flocks. Callipepla squamata squamata vigors 1830 altiplano scaled quail. Usually quail will roost in groups. This provides optimal protection from approaching predators.

Quail roost in a circle allowing the group to have a 360 degree view of its surroundings. The most common subspecies it occurs. The males prominent black belly patch distinguishes it from the similar california quail. Large fluctuations in population size are common from year to year and typically follow several years of drought.

Groups of scaled quail scurry through the desert grasslands of the southwestern united states calling softly to each other to stay in contact. Scaled quail has formed several subspecies 3 of which range into the usa.