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Samantha92
PostPosted: Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:24 pm 
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I'm looking to purchase 2-3 female quails but everywhere I look (gumtree etc) they are only being sold in f,m pairs...

I don't want fertile eggs nor do I want 3 males with 3 females :grn

Why do they sell them in pairs?


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mycoola
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Because nobody wants to be stuck with pens full of male quails.
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Samantha92
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Guess i could just eat them.

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Yes or you could.give your snakes a snack.
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Samantha92
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They'd enjoy that :P

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mycoola wrote:
Yes or you could.give your snakes a snack.

Are the birds killed first?
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Samantha92
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hennypenny wrote:
mycoola wrote:
Yes or you could.give your snakes a snack.

Are the birds killed first?


Ive never fed them birds before.
Never fed live food either.

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