Females of quails are bought later to provide themselves with quail eggs. But at the same time it is more difficult to support a female of a quail: she needs certain conditions, heat, constant change of a forage. Therefore for the decorative purposes it is better to buy a male. How to distinguish females and males?
It is required to you
- the quail a female, rehashed a male
Instruction
1. First of all be defined what quails of a look you wish to buy. Depending on a type of the rule of distinction of females and males will be different.
2. If you choose the Japanese quails of a wild color, then look narrowly at breasts of birds which age reached three-four weeks. If feathers on a breast of bright red color are also not present dark stains, then it is certain a male. If you see yellowish-gray feathers with darkish impregnations, then this is a female.
3. In case your choice – color quails, then wait until birds are two months old. Probe a skin on a stomach of a bird: during this period at a female through skin of a stomach it is possible to probe the ends of pubic bones which widely disperse in the field of a foul place. And here at a male such bones will be located a row. Keep in mind that at an unripe female these bones are located similar to bones of a male. Therefore it is very important that birds were not less than two-month age.
4. Observe quails and listen to the made sounds. The quail male periodically lets out very sharp cries. This sound is so sharp that you without effort distinguish a male from "silent" females.
5. If there is no time to watch birds, then pick up a quail and examine very attentively the place between his tail and a foul place. If it is a male, then you will find quite big "cone" there - it is gland which the male has only. If to press on this gland, then from a foul place of a bird the white foamy secret acts.
6. In case you choose birds who are not in a cage, and in the spacious territory, look narrowly at how quails copulate. The male tries to grasp a beak a female by a nape then delays the head of a female back or sideways. After that it nestles on a female for couple of seconds behind. However this way is suitable for people, more skilled in chicken farming, sometimes females likewise act in a fight.