The phrase "a young quail" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a juvenile or young bird of the quail species, often in contexts related to wildlife, nature, or culinary discussions.
Example: "During our hike, we spotted a young quail pecking at the ground for seeds."
Alternatives: "a juvenile quail" or "a baby quail."
Here, we investigated how genetic factors modulate mother effects on the behavioural development of young quail.
("Quail?? Had that! Had that!") Eventually a young underchef teams up with a band of wolves to provide the fat tyrants with a bite more than they can chew.
De la Reyniere's descriptions of the rôti, like, "enclosed in a young woodcock, as tender and plump as Mademoiselle Volnais and quite as well kept," or "then enclose your callie (quail), which you should cover with a vine-leaf, as a coat-of-arms to show its nobility, in the body of a vanneau (lapwing)," reek of poetics and pomp.
A young woman — too young?
Studies on two lines of Japanese Quail divergently selected for their social reinstatement behavior [ 6], showed that quail with a higher level of social reinstatement (HSR) were quicker to rejoin conspecifics and formed shorter distances between individuals than those with a lower level of social reinstatement behavior (LSR) at a young age, before becoming similar at adult age [ 7].
Therefore, the association between stress susceptibility and production in the quail, if it exists, is not mediated significantly by major genes involved in the determinism of the duration of tonic immobility measured at a young age.
Feeding gradedlevels of zinc in a casein-gelatin diet to young Japanese quail with 109Cd (as the chloride) and 0.062 ppm added cadmium decreased the cadmium concentrations in the proventriculus-ventriculus, duodenum, jejunum-ileum, and the liver, but not in the kidney.
Experiments with young Japanese quail were conducted to determine whether combined moderate deficiencies of zinc, iron and copper would cause greater uptake and tissue retention of cadmium than the single deficiencies.
A quail is a quail is a quail, perhaps, but there were definitely variations in size and price and some butchers would only take orders in advance.
