The hot news tip came from an avid dove hunter whom I had seen blast birds out of the sky with a shotgun. I knew the guy wasn't overly precious or sentimental when it came to cute fowl or household ...

Pet quail's fave food: cheeseburgers and Mountain Dew The owner of a quirky quail feeds his pet bird Sparki a steady diet of Mountain Dew and cheeseburgers. The quail is just one of many birds dove ...

It all started with a YouTube video and a child who wanted to be Gerald Durrell. One moment we were saying “maybe” to hatching pet quail eggs, and the next we were sneaking an incubator into the loft.

Quail are quirky little creatures that, despite some having been bred domestically for over 4,000 years, maintain their skittish nature no matter how safely you keep them. They can be rewarding pets ...

Alwyn Wils, a 45-year-old Dutch man, has been making news since he published a video of his project. After buying a 12-pack of supermarket quail eggs, he plopped them all in an incubator out of ...

Jeremy Christiani lives in a cozy brick condo on 50th Street in West Des Moines with his wife and 12-year-old twin daughters. He also lives with 36 Japanese quail. Christiani says his family keeps the ...

There are many problems regarding absentee landlords that need addressing. Yet, I received a code violation because my tenant had pet quail. The inspector said they were fowl, and not allowed in the ...

I confess, after several days of this, my interest in the quails waned. But then, the morning after Bonfire Night, sixteen days after the eggs were first placed in the incubator, one of the boys ...