They are certainly leveraged by trendy restaurants, but they are just totally lovely as a daily egg! Can use in place of chicken eggs in everything. Nothing odd or weird about the flavour. Just awesome.

Quail are much less destructive than chickens. And less messy and smelly than ducks (from my limited duck experience). They are however much less capable of defending themselves, and their food. Ours are always caged, unless I am holding them. Everything wants to eat them. And it is not obvious that I could get them back if they escaped. Haha. They are also not inclined to eat all the scraps that chickens do, so you need some kind of base feed. Our bevy gets fresh grass and clover every day as the substrate they can scratch and hunt through. I also bring them bugs and weeds I find when weeding. But yeah, letting them hunt around the farm by themselves isn't really an option on the survival front. Looooooool.

I would also love some ducks around. Perhaps even some ostriches. 🙃