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A structure in which one houses quail that are kept as a food animal..
A quailery should be dark (or the mailes will be always fighting), light being let in at early morning, at noon, and towards sunset, and the birds fed each time.
In Behar every prudent English resident keeps a quailery, as well as a tealery, on his premises, and a dish of fat quail is a very agreeable and wholesome change of diet when the weather is hot.
Here are the fowl-house and the sheep-house, and the goat-house, and the cow-house, and the tealery, and the quailery, and the columbarie, and the extensive godowns, and all the other adjuncts of a large Anglo-Indian establishment of the olden time.
The quail is notorious for its quarrelsomeness : being confined in cage or quailery, it has to be kept in the dark if it is to be kept alive.
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Quailery means A structure in which one houses quail that are kept as a food animal..
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A quailery should be dark (or the mailes will be always fighting), light being let in at early morning, at noon, and towards sunset, and the birds fed each time.
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