Quail is cool cool! One of these day we'd like to get some of them also. Bummer😮💨 you can't have chickens. They're great. Especially free ranging. We use to keep them in a pen but that was when we were in town🤗
My biggest issue with free ranging tho .. they try and hide their eggs from me. Only a couple actually lay in the same spot twice. 🤦 So it's a daily hunt. 🤣
And another draw back to free ranging... hawks🤬 There's not a lot you can do about them. But try and keep them scared off. I like trying to keep crows around. I've watched them chase off a hawk. They'll gang up on it 2 and 3 at a time.
Anyways...
Where I'm at, with the dogs and the chickens they don't share much scraps with any other critters. Two Snakes have been the main issue in the yard... Outside of it tho there's woods and 2 overgrown pastures.
Hopefully we're going to buy this place, and if so, those pastures will get cleaned up for something 🤔🤷 livestock or gardens, orchard.. Something 🤗