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Didn't know you could keep them together in a pen. Is that a chicken to the left?
To the very left is an SSC coturnix quail, then the middle is my one melanistic pheasant, and on the right is a (I think) a Scarlet coturnix. Game birds aren't 'supposed' to be kept with chickens because the chooks have diseases they can 't handle, but people do. That's why we have pheasant chicken hybrids.
 

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To the very left is an SSC coturnix quail, then the middle is my one melanistic pheasant, and on the right is a (I think) a Scarlet coturnix. Game birds aren't 'supposed' to be kept with chickens because the chooks have diseases they can 't handle, but people do. That's why we have pheasant chicken hybrids.
Would love to see pics of your pheasant-chickens!
 

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Would love to see pics of your pheasant-chickens!
Sadly I don't have any. When I said "we" I meant people. Sorry, I'm always so confusing. But here are some screenshots of hybrids online!
Pheasant chicken
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Peacock chicken
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Guinea Fowl chicken
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Had two eggs for breakfast. Different to "crack" than a chicken or duck egg. I found a quail egg cutter on-line to purchase, but don't like to purchase kitchen gadgets if I don't need to. I will work on streamlining opening quail eggs for now.
I found a quick saw with a serrated steak knife worked great.
 

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I kept quail in a chicken tractor in the summer, and a smaller pen in the chicken coop in winter.

They did great in both, but the tractor was tricky since accidental escapes (when feeding etc.) Were way harder to recapture than with chickens.

Quail shoot straight up maybe 2 feet, then zoom/fly off horizontally pretty far. Again... just much harder to recapture than chickens.
 

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The chicks are totally better now. One chick in group #2 started having the same symptoms! I removed the eggs and the chick got better. Maybe the ones who were affected ate too much of the eggs and no grain. Decided to limit the eggs to maybe every other, or every three days. But no eggs for now.

Added millet to their feed.
Need to correct this post. The eggs were not the problem, but they were ill. They had labored breathing, and problems walking. That's why they were hiding. Some died, and the others fully recovered. Some didn't get ill at all.
 
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