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| Author | Topic: do bobwhite mate coturnix quail? |
| marchie |
posted 2/20/08 4:44 PM
I have rescued a doomed quail in the middle of the covered with icy snow woods in the country and I tried to make him feel less stressed in captivity by buying a female quail. Unfortunately only after I bought the female (from a live poultry market in New York City), I realized that they belong to two different kinds of quail: while "my" boy was a bobwhite Dean Martin singer-whistler, she is a coturnix. Are they ever going to become a pair, due the different sexual and gestation maturity (the bobwhite having 23 days of egg hatching cycle and the coturnix 17 days)? She is adorable how she rolls in front of him, how she jumps across the cage after "hiding" behind a paper towel ball,how she amazes him with scraching the floor. But there is no two way love here: she IGNORES his wonderful singing, looking for food 100 percent of her time. I also learned that the bobwhite are monogamous and "my" boy might be a widow, while the boemic coturnix don't care who is the father of the babies. Well... please tell me if they will ever be something more than just cagemates. Thanks a lot. Marchie |
| mark |
posted 2/24/08 10:24 AM
as far as im aware they do not mate, and have know male bobs to attack jap quails, but if you keep them as a pair they should be ok, its when u add other quail the problems begin, bobs can cross with californian quail and gambels because they all originate from america the y are probably related in the past hope this helps |
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