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QUAIL - HARLEQUIN

Latin name - Coturnix Delegorouei
Approximate size - 6½ inches
Incubation length - 16 - 17 days

Main characteristics:-
* Easily sexed when mature
* Male - face mask
* Female - no face mask
* Best kept in pairs or trios
* Can be flighty
* Males can be extremely aggressive to each other even if reared together
* Once you get the female to lay, it is not hard to hatch and rear but fertility is not as good as it should be

Colours available (click on the thumbnail/s below to view photo/s) No known mutations