Help Needed with Identifying Quail's Species and Sex

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone,

I recently bought three Japanese Quails: English white (Male), Bob-bird (Female), and a third one which I am not sure of what species and sex it is. (Images of the quail are here http://s778.photobucket.com/albums/yy66/Quail4Ever/ ). It does not crow and does not produce any white, foamy substance, and it does not lay eggs.

In case this is a male, I was wondering if two males and one female can be housed together? if not, can the male in question be housed alone in a separate cage of does it need a companion?

I will highly appreciate your help in the matter at hand!

 

[Tim]

Hello Caille (like the username )

I'm afraid I'm not so familiar with Quail - I used too keep Chinese Painted Quail as a youngster in an aviary but don't know a great deal about types of Japanese.

As I remember, my quail were incredibly hard to sex but the males would call out when mature so if you could catch them doing it, you could ring them with a plastic leg ring to ID them later.

Sorry I can't be much more help.

Tim

 

[Blue]

if you mean the bird at the end of your photos... its a Japanese quail, looks female,
the male will have a reddish/chestnut tinge to their chest

how old are they?

and as for keeping them together... we started with three - turned out to be 2 males with one female!
they were fine for the 4 months til we got new birds.

hope that helps

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Tim and Blue,

Thanks for replying to my post, and sorry for the lack of response on my side; my quail in question passed away about a month ago due to respiratory disease, after which I didn't check to see if I got a response to my question. Please accept my graditutde and apologies,

Caille

 

[Tim]

I'm sorry to hear you lost your quail.

Please don't worry about not coming back - the forum is transitory and people drop in and out at all sorts of times.

Tim