http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23777552-dont-count-chickens-pet-a-quail-instead.do
Quails are being touted as the ideal urban pet - easy to look after, requiring very little space and giving their owners a plentiful supply of eggs.
Experts say the market for them is growing in London and sales of a £340 designer quail house are booming.
The plastic quail run, called an eglu, is a smaller version of a chicken coop. It contains a sleeping area and a covered wire run. Each can hold up to six birds.
Johannes Paul of design company Omlet, which makes the quail house, said: "Quail are perfectly suited to London, because they require so little space. We've just starting selling [the eglu] and the demand is huge. The birds are very low maintenance. If you look after th
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