COTURNIX QUAIL
Join the folks who've found out that small but beautiful applies to poultry, too, including caging, feeding, breeding, hatching and chick care.
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For elegant dining, roast quail with vegetables and hard-boiled eggss ...A pyramid of pickled perfection!
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Issue # 71 - September/October 1981
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Join the folks who've found out that "small is beautiful" applies to poultry, too.
by Richard Buchholz
The Japanese call the birds uzura, and have raised them for centuries. Early American colonists called them "Bible quail" and found them to be economical providers of protein. Modern homesteaders, however, refer to them as Coturnix (from their generic name) and delight in the virtues of these astounding little fowl. Coturnix quail, you see, require no more care than do chickens ...but they mature faster, produce more eggs, need less food and space, and have more uses than virtually any other kind of domestic poultry!
I was first introduced to the small birds seven years ago, when I was looking for a type of fowl I could raise on my half-acre garden in New York City. To my delight, I discovered that quail can be propagated in sufficient numbers to make a profitable business ...right on the balcony of a high-rise urban apartment! Furthermore, even though they're classified as game birds-which makes them a gourmet delicacy-no license is required to raise them.
There are six varieties of Coturnix, which differ from one another primarily in size and color: British Range, Tuxedo, English White, Manchurian Golden, Pharoah Dl, and the comparatively new Australian Speckled Fawn. Of these, the Pharoah Dl is both the largest and the best egg producer.
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