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King quail (Synoicus chinensis), 12 - 14 cm in length, weight approximately 0.23 - 0.36 lb.
Male king quails come in a variety of colors, including blue, brown, silver, dark brown, dark brown, and almost black.
They have hard orange feet and can withstand a life on the ground like many other game birds.
Females are similar to males, but are not blue.
In the wild, the king quail's diet consists of small bugs, grass seeds, rapeseed, and plants that are available at the time.
In breeding, all birds should be fed a variety of seeds and a variety of healthy fruits and vegetables.
Newly hatched chicks should be fed protein-rich chick crumbs mixed with a little water. Other sources of protein include mealworms, termites, and various insects.
King quails have been popular for keeping and breeding for many years, and many mutations have been developed.
They are quite hardy once they have adapted to their environment and keep the bottom of the coop clean. A big advantage of King quails is that they are ground-dwelling and do not affect other birds.
They are very cheap to buy and raise. They are known to be hand-tameable.
They can be kept in pairs or groups of four in a raised aviary, individually in aviaries, or in large flocks.
Hens lay one egg per day if fed the right diet.
Nesting sites can be as simple as a quiet corner or a depression in the ground against a wall.
It is best to provide a patch of long grass, tea tree branches, or a pile of loose hay. Usually, hens lay their eggs on the floor of the coop without using a nest.
This is a sign that the bird is unhappy with the existing facilities and providing a sheltered nesting site may result in nest building. The male usually chooses the nesting site.
The king quail (Synoicus chinensis), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi, is a species of Old World quail in the family Phasianidae. This species is the smallest "true quail", ranging in the wild from southern China, South and Southeast Asia to Oceania, south to southeastern Australia,

Six subspecies are recognized:
S. c. chinensis (Linnaeus, 1766): Found from India and Sri Lanka to Malaya, Indochina, southeastern China, and Taiwan
S. c. trinkutensis Richmond, 1902: Nicobar blue-breasted quail, found on the Nicobar Islands

S. c. lineatus (Scopoli, 1786): Found in the Philippines, Borneo, Lesser Sundas, Sulawesi and Sula Islands
S. c. lepidus (Hartlaub, 1879): Found in New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago

S. c. victoriae (Mathews, 1912): Found in eastern Australia
S. c. colletti (Mathews, 1912): Found in northern Australia
The species has had a complex taxonomic history, being classified into the genus Coturnix, then Synoicus, then Excalfactoria. Phylogenetic evidence supports it belonging in an expanded Synoicus that, alongside the blue quail (S. adansonii) also includes the Snow Mountain quail (S. monorthonyx) and brown quail (S. ypsilophorus).
The subspecies S. c. victoriae was formerly named C. s. australis (Gould, 1865), but the reclassification of the species into Synoicus caused this designation to be preoccupied by the Australian subspecies of the brown quail (S. y. australis), leading to the epithet being changed to victoriae (Mathews, 1912).


The males fight for the right to mate with the females. The winning male then gets to mate with all the females.

The females can then develop and lay eggs within one to two days of mating. They will either build their nests first or lay their eggs on the ground. Females usually only incubate their eggs once they have collected an ideal clutch.
Clutch sizes vary from five to 13 eggs. All the eggs that make up the clutch are laid before incubation begins. In captivity, the ideal clutch size is six to eight. The chicks hatch after about 16 days.
The nest is a simple hollow scratched into the ground, lined with grass and built by the hen with the help of the cock.
The eggs are 25 x 19mm in size and vary in colour from lightest brown to dark olive and are dotted with fine black spots. King quail eggs are pale cream-brown in colour and slightly pointed at the “top”, oval in shape.
Clutch sizes range from four to 13, but a hen can occasionally be seen incubating up to 20 eggs.
These are usually a combined clutch of several hens and due to the difficulty of turning and covering a clutch of this size, hatching rates are often low. It may be beneficial to remove some of the eggs and incubate them artificially or raise them.
King quails usually breed all year round, with incubation lasting 16 to 23 days before the chicks hatch. The hen cares for the chicks until they are about 3 weeks old, when they should be separated from the parents and placed in a separate cage.

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