If you don't want so many eggs, you can just keep fewer birds. If you have too many birds, some just graduate to freezer camp and eventually to the grill.

It's easy to figure out how many birds to keep. Say you use about a dozen chicken eggs a week. 3 to 4 quail eggs equal one chicken egg, so you'll need to have 36 to 48 quail eggs to meet your needs. Round it off to 40 eggs.

You can assume one egg from each hen per day.

40 eggs / 7 days a week = 5.7 birds So 6 birds would meet your needs.

Unless you want to hatch chicks, roosters are useless. So you would keep 6 hens. And 6 hens would be so easy. A 3' x 2' cage would be just fine.

If anyone is interested in chicks let me know.