I could watch this all day long.

@Pavlovafowl

6 жыл бұрын

That is such a lovely comment! I so appreciate your feedback, I make these films and just hope they are enjoyed. All the very best from sunny Normandie and Thanks for making my day! Sue

You got some happy birds there :D I love the way you do it. Happy and peaceful place :)

@Pavlovafowl

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your great comments, they are very much appreciated! Good to hear from you and all the very best from Normandie, Sue

another great video.

I have always enjoyed watching your quail videos.

@Pavlovafowl

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much Rustic - your comments are always appreciated! Hope you are getting some sunshine and Summer weather out and about this time of year! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

this is wonderful, farmers around the world have to do this

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

I wish they would, I can't bear to see all those quail in small cages - it breaks my heart to think that this is thought to be acceptable. Thank you for your caring comment and all the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

I love it thank you for sharing

these are the best quail videos on youtube! soo much information soo many happy quail. colour me inspired! keep up the amazing work.

@Pavlovafowl

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Yohseph and thank you for such a wonderful comment, I truly appreciate it. You made my day yesterday with your comment! If you are interested I also have a site with written articles on quail, some of them are a detailed version of the quail films on here and others are stand alone articles, such as on the history of quail keeping and the nutrition and medical usage of their eggs: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_27.html#.XEEQvq9G2kA Wishing you all the very best from Normandie, Sue

I love the video, i love the quail... AND i love you!! You aré amazing!

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Aaww, those are such lovely comments - you made my day! All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

Yes! Another video!

What adorable little quails 💖

@Pavlovafowl

5 жыл бұрын

Aaww thanks again I really appreciate your comments. All the very best, Sue

I love quell !!!

So sweet!

@Pavlovafowl

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Scott, your comment is appreciated! All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue

Beautifulllll! :*

Sooo cute. Very tame…

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, Thank you! I put it down to their food and environment. If my birds don't get enough invertebrate protein they actually get grouchy and start yammering at me or they get nervous and I couldn't let them free-range. It is amazing the power the correct diet has on the nervous system as well as the physical one. Also they are naturally friendly birds, in my experience. All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

Thank you

I've watched your videos and I must say that you are a gem! You are full of wisdom and knowledge about raising birds. You have a gift to enlighten us all.

@Pavlovafowl

6 жыл бұрын

Anna that is such a lovely and kind comment - you made my day! Thank you so much, your words are appreciated. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

@likingraccoons

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, thank you for your kind words :) But truly, don't be too modest. I must say I truly can FEEL your knowledge in these videos even if you said nothing. J'adore...

Mind blown!!!!!

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your comments - I will answer them all separately but the main thing is to get the diet right and then make sure your quail are bonded to their mother hen or mother quail or to yourself. If you train them to a fork or trowel, they will help you no end in the garden as they are great at pest control! All the very best from Normandie, Sue

Those are some cute birds! :D

@Pavlovafowl

6 жыл бұрын

I love these two and the care they show for each other is a joy to see. All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue

Thank you for posting your videos. I wanted backyard chickens for a while but they may not be an option in the area I'm in. I have recently been looking into quail and don't like the conditions they seem to be primarily kept in. It's good to know that you can give your pet quail a natural life and still have all the benefits of raising backyard fowl.

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome. I totally agree, there is absolutely no reason not to raise quail naturally. You can train them to garden with you, that way you get rid of pests and feed your quail at the same time. The more they find their own food the healthier and happier they will be. They won't lay an egg every day but then their eggs will be of a far superior quality than those on a human-enforced grain diet. No one knows better than the quail what it should be eating. Giving them freedom to roam when you are present, to avoid predator problems, is also very important. I love to see how happy it makes them to be able to 'stretch their wings'. All the very best and good luck with your great quail adventure, Sue xx

What a great life your quail have! I wish I could free range our quail, but there are just too many predators around us. We are, however, in the process of building a tractor for them, so they may be a bit happier with a regular change of scenery. How did you go about taming your quail and getting them to trust you? Ours definitely come running to the door when they see me coming with the treat containers, but I'm not at all confident that they trust me enough to hang about if I were to let them out in the yard.

@Pavlovafowl

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your lovely comments, they are appreciated! Running towards you is a very good sign, did you see this video I made about a silly game I used to bond with one of my quail: kzread.info/dash/bejne/kXagmdykaLWZkbA.html it really helped in free-ranging him afterwards. e have predators too and in fact the friend whose garden we were working on was really afraid the quail would get spooked by the goat/birds of prey/Corvids etc.,. I really had confidence in these two but I know exactly what you mean. I tried them out first in our garden arbour where we eat and they love that but it has trellis and rose bushes and they feel really safe, so maybe if you tried free ranging in a similar space first particularly one you could put a net over if you were worried. Also the white and golden quail were raised here with a mother quail and a hen so they have a good sense of bonding which then transferred on to me. Hope this helps and good luck - it's great to get your slugs removed and they do a wonderful job with aphids and ants!! All the very best, Sue

I love your videos 💙☺️ also can you post a video or having chickens and quail together ?

Thank you for this insight. I myself wanted to try to have free range quails but I am still scared because my quails when they fly away NEVER come back. Unlike my chickens

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there and sorry I only just found your comment. You would need to establish a bond with your quail. I spent a lot of time in the greenhouse with these quail and with others I have had them from chicks and they have free-ranged with their mother hen, so they have the idea of staying with her, which then is passed on to staying with me. You can train them to stay but it does very much depend on the individual bird. One thing you might think about is food too, quail need invertebrate protein both for amino acid content and the B vitamins, without it, I find they exhibit nervous behaviour and if they are outside can be easily spooked and fly up and thus leave the garden. Just a couple of ideas which I hope will be of use. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

if you are going to raise animals this must be the way not in tiny cages. with codornix its a little hard but i'm trying with a mother chicken to see if they follow her. amazing video

@Pavlovafowl

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your comments and I do appreciate them and I also very much agree that it is hard to free-range quail but so worth it! Please do let me know how you get on with trying to bond your quail chicks to a mother hen and I hope you too will film or write about the experience as it is so important to let others know how quail should be kept! All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

Nice video. I love how relaxed she is. Can you get bobwhites to act like that?

@Pavlovafowl

3 жыл бұрын

Hi there and thank you! I don't see why not. The key thing with quail, in my experience, is to get them on the correct diet - so as near as possible to what they would eat in the wild. Then you would need to have a strong bond with one of them if you took out a pair. In my experience food effects behaviour deeply and there are particular nutrients such as the B complex vitamins, selenium and amino acids such as L-methionine, which quail need to prevent that sort of flighty nervousness that would make them impossible to free-range. I raise my quail on a high level of invertebrates and leafy green veg to provide these foods and the chicks are hatched and raised with a mother hen or of late with their own quail mother, so they learn how to 'hunt' and forage for their own diet. I have articles on my site about this if you are interested: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_27.html#.X4HQ83cv6V4 All the very best and good luck, Sue

Just became interested and purchased quail myself 10 min ago then I started wondering if this was possible. I've had this experience with all my species of fowl as well and thought it was possibly probably possible:> I was starting to think I was Doctor Hootlittle or something it just seems all of my livestock oriented birds have become super attached or bonded with me and multiple other species. and then at some point I just started to be able to read them all really well and understand the intricacies of cross species communication... always amazed at bird intelligence... lol I had no idea, I thought it was just parrots and crows I guess until I started living the "Micro Aviary Aquascape Permaponic Lifestyle" lol and now there are geese living under my house and ill just leave it that Lmao. People say so many wholeheartedly negative opinions in the agriculture world, but you should always go with your gut and try things and always be looking for things to try is what I've found, when you observe certain patterns or like here when you have a sense about a particular animal or trait. lol simply put: no two environments are the same and people are far too quick to try and learn everything there is to know about things and simultaneously underestimate what all organisms will and can do to adapt. you don't even have to be half as good of an observer as a quail is to notice the relationships all creatures have with each other... lol ok there I go again drinking one too many glasses and gettin too excited. did a Subscribe when I saw your channel name very cool. Thanks for the great info! Keep Educating! you are really good whether that is your intent or not:) Wishing you and your awesome birds the best.

@tylerlaird91

3 жыл бұрын

Update: This is my new Favorite channel. very refreshing to see these same ideas i've had for a while now and our similarities are crazy! Honestly I never comment if you can believe that after all this lol but will definitely be a channel lurking from now on. More After cut flower seasons over:) REally cool videos! That is all ok bye now

do they come to sleep in the barn? like chickens always do

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, No you really have to guide them in because my quail have the normal wild instincts, so when they feel sleepy, they will just dig a little depression in the soil and go to sleep in it. This is why I created the quail safe greenhouse area - so they could sleep naturally with the illusion of being outdoors. However, in the Winter they will naturally congregate together and they will often go into their little house on their own but again that is within the safe area. I also always supervise my quail when they are free-ranging because you never know if there is a stray dog or cat about and we do have birds of prey a-plenty too. However, I am not always right by them and they do wander off but they tend to know that I am there and will protect them. All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue xx

Hi, I am going to start incubating some quail eggs shorty and I will be keeping them in large pen outside. I was wondering what you do with your male quails. I'm hoping to sell most of the eggs to pay for the cost of their food but if I keep the mails this wont be possible. I don't want to kill them but this seems to be the only option. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

@Pavlovafowl

5 жыл бұрын

Hi there Patrick, firstly I would look at you food costs because mine are very low and my birds eat 100% organic food. My advice would be to grow/raise most of the food yourself and I would get that going now by starting a meal worm 'farm' and by getting a composting system going in your garden, if you haven't already. I actually have a great dept of leaf mould on the floor and a compost bin inside my quail greenhouse so my quail have a permanent source of quality invertebrates such as sow bugs, earwigs, beetles.... I transfer amounts from my main compost bins when it is well broken down but still retains enough food to keep the invertebrates happy. I also find in the Summer that the compost bin attracts ant colonies as well which are my birds' favourite food. Quail, like most poultry aren't really grain eaters - they have just become so because it is convenient both to buy and sell this sort of food but in reality I find they do much better on an omnivorous diet with a bias toward invertebrate protein - particularly when they are growing. I also believe that this quail 'paleo' diet is what made the eggs we have so good for allergy (the reason why I began to raise quail in the first place). I think also when you buy grain, then it would be better to buy organically certified and buy it directly from the farm - it is much cheaper. Also I sprout mine and I buy triticale an old variety wheat/rye cross which is much higher in protein. Sprouted and/or fermented grain is more easily assimilated by the quail digestion and is much more nutritious as it is a live 'plant' rather than a dormant seed. I believe also if you are going to sell eggs people would be more interested to know that your eggs will be free of pesticide residues and should be prepared to pay more accordingly for them. By providing home-raised/grown food, I keep all my quail male and female and people are also interested in buying quail from me, male and female because they know they are healthy and will live for more than the usual 6 months average for caged quail here in France! If you read through my blog and look at some more of my quail videos, you will find that I now have quail that pair off in the breeding season and go broody and sit eggs, they need space and a choice of partner to do this, so for me keeping one male with a few females is not a natural state in my greenhouse set -up. Anyway hope this has given you some usable ideas and please do get back and let me know how you are getting on. Here is my site link: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/ and wishing you all the very best from Normandie, Sue

@patrickmorgan6543

5 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlovafowl thanks so much for the advice! I was planning on documenting the whole process of building a pen to incubating the quail to eventually eating their first eggs. Thanks again, I will definitely try to keep as much as their food organic as possible which shouldn't be too hard as I am surround by many friendly farmers.

Do the coturix quil fly ????

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, Yes they do but in my experience this is just short flights but technically they should be able to fly quite well. My bantam hens can fly even further than my quail, so I don't think it is a proportional wing size to weight problem, I believe as with a lot of coturnix natural behaviours, they are just out of practice! As mine are in a large greenhouse they do fly about in there but I'd like at some point to get them into a game netting set-up where they can fly further but be safe. When I take them free-ranging they don't seem to bother about flying but then we are either gardening and/or they are looking for food - so very preoccupied with that! Hope this helps and all the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

How many different varieties and names of quail do you have? They are so pretty and handsome.

@billchu4925

4 жыл бұрын

And where do you get them?

@Pavlovafowl

4 жыл бұрын

Hi there Bill, they are all one breed 'Japanese' aka coturnix japonica but I have 10 different colours and variations on colour. I have written a series of articles on these and often on their different personalities - it's on my site - here is the first in the series if you are interested: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2018/01/colours-of-coturnix-quail-celebration.html#.XzfVpncv6V5 I got them from the local organic dairy farm, where I buy milk and the son is a big quail enthusiast. He found the original hatching eggs through a quail club on the German border - these different varieties of colour being exceedingly rare here in France. So wherever you are I would advise getting in contact with the clubs because they seem to be the people with the contacts. At the farm they had some other even rarer colours too but he didn't want to sell those! There is also a beautiful white and silver colour - I think it is called 'snowflake' and I did get some hatching eggs for those but I was warned they probably wouldn't hatch and they didn't. If you are in the USA there are some amazing different varieties of quail and hatching eggs you can get. If you are on Instagram - Check out quailenthusiast he (Matt) has some extraordinary quail including the beautiful Mearns/Montezuma and Benson. All the very best from Normandie, Sue

What breed it the white one with brown spots

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Kyle, she's a variation of the English White Coturnix aka the 'Panda', I recently made a film about them and there is a written article too here is the link to the film and the written article is linked in the film details: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fIarsc-ukdXJdtY.html All the very best from Normandie, Sue xx

@kylehomewood3169

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for getting back! I hatched 3 hens of those out back in September and the person I got the eggs from only had pharo catronix quail.. I have been breeding them with a Pharo and was told I could get a tuxedo... Any truth to that? Btw I have 20 eggs I'm hatching right now from the 3 hens

@Pavlovafowl

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylehomewood3169 Hi there Kyle! Genetics make my head swim, it is such a huge subject and there are always caveats - so I'll have to dive into my trusty F.B. Hutt book to get a comprehensive answer. However, I have read (sort of from the other way round) that when you breed White to Tuxedo you can get a Panda but with the Pharaoh spot just on the head - see what I mean? Basically you can create a Tuxedo from all types of colours with the English White but usually with a Tuxedo already in the mix. However Tuxedos begin from 'scratch' with a White and something else such as a Pharaoh but I will check. I think it will be a matter of ratios i.e. you may get one among many others - to me that's part of the fun! All the very best and I will get back again, Sue xx

@kylehomewood3169

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlovafowl once again thank you so much for ur time and help👍 such an amazing and sweet person you really are🙏

Sue, thanks so much for your information! We are in eastern Washington State USA and just put out 7 quail in a "Quail Hut" on pasture: kzread.info/dash/bejne/i3eHtKadhpfWk8Y.html. You were a major inspiration for starting quail on our farm and we even got them certified Organic for eggs! So...I hope we get eggs soon! Thanks again and best wishes for your quail!

I've seen some of your videos and I thought you eat their eggs. How do you harvest them? If I ever keep quail, I'd have to harvest their eggs, and sadly slaughter some of them to feed my dogs whenever game isn't available. I'm very concerned about their welfare and quality of life, I've read that quail rarely get past 3 but I've seen your videos about the 5 year old quail, and I don't know if on free-range or on a tractor (female) productivity keeps the same and they keep laying until their final days, which is some of the reasons I thought those little birds were perfect for having such a long productive "life", or if it's just that the awful conditions people use to keep them, that make their lives end in the middle of their production. I was also wondering if quail are capable of being herd like ducks, so with help of a herding dog and maybe some geese to deter aerial predators they could spend the day out and return to Coop/tractor at night, so I could harvest their eggs, keep tracking and thus successfully start a breeding program. Although I think here in Spain it's illegal not to "avoid" quail from "hybridizing with wild local ones" so I think they must be kept in a closed space.

@Pavlovafowl

6 жыл бұрын

Hi there and thanks for your interesting comments and the points you make which are all very relevant to how we keep quail. Two of the most important features I have noticed in keeping quail in captivity is that they need a wild diet (invertebrates) and a secure but natural environment (planted space). This way, they are to stay calm and healthy and thus to live to any age longer than the 6 months, which is the average for caged quail here in France. It is, I am convinced, poor diet and stress which shortens their life. You can actually plant up a greenhouse (glass by preference because it is safer with a partly 'open' but wired roof), in such a way as to make the quail feel they are out in the open countryside. I also build up the floor of the greenhouse with leaves and grass clippings and compost, to give an environment to encourage invertebrates, so the quail 'hunt' for their own food as well as anything I bring in from the compost heaps. This way you will get good quality eggs and long-lived quail. My quail have reverted to their natural behaviours, they make nests to lay their eggs so I can easily find them and they lay in the evening so I can take them out free-ranging with me in the day and they will lay when they get back. I have taught quail to respond to a torch light and they would follow that to go into their house at night but that is the nearest I have got to 'herding' them. Interestingly I had 2 quail wander off some years ago and they lived up in the meadow where I had free-ranged them for at least a year afterwards - my neighbour saw them, so they do remain in one territory. However, with a large enough greenhouse space (we make ours from old glass windows, so the costs are minimal). With the planting of various mixtures of seeds or the bringing in large flowering plants, such as lavenders and rosemary, which they won't eat but love to nest in, you can create a wonderful environment and raise long-lived quail and collect their eggs easily. They will also be more inclined to bond and raise chicks. I've more tips and strategies here if you would like to read my written articles: holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2017/05/ideas-for-encouraging-pair-bonding.html#.WxkOBxqYOkB All the very best and thanks again for your comments and questions, much appreciated! All the very best from sunny Normandie, Sue

@HelenEk7

5 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlovafowl I would love to do a natural diet. I live a bit further north (Norway) so winter is a bit colder compared to France. Any advice as to what to feed them in winter when there are no insects around? We usually have snow from december to february...

@daphner7045

4 жыл бұрын

@@Pavlovafowl what greenhouse space would you recommend for each quail? Would 6m2 be enough for four quails and a small hen, with some freeranging on the side?

Bonker? Lol

the things people tell you.. is all lies because I have raised coturnix quail for 2 years! and I know every thing there is to know about them.

Beautifullll!! :*

@Pavlovafowl

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you - appreciated! All the very best from Normandie, Sue