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Poll Results: Is the silver on male or female?

 
  • 25% (3)
    Male
  • 75% (9)
    Female
12 Total Votes  
post #11 of 27
2/7/12 at 7:47pm

Two males wouldn't do that, so maybe it is female?  You might not know for sure until you get eggs (or not)...

 

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post #12 of 27
2/8/12 at 3:00am
Thread Starter 

Yeah, I'm just waiting for eggs. And, if it's a female, it won't be long, because now ''she'' is about 45 days.

Let me ask you another question. I'm giving them quail food for laying eggs time. Is it correct? Because here is so dificult to find other food for them...

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post #13 of 27
2/9/12 at 5:41pm

You can feed them any type of poultry feed (gamebird starter, turkey starter, whatever) that is unmedicated and at least 24% protein.  The higher the protein the better, and they need tons of calcium, too, so boiling their eggs and crushing them up, shell and all, and feeding them back to the birds is good.  I don't know nearly as much as other people about buttons, though.

 

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I have 5 random roosters, 15 random hens, and 20 chicks (at least 13 of which are pullets)

Don't all teenage girls have 40 pet chickens?!

 

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NPIP# GA-1245    My Page      My Blog     Photos Of My Chickens!

I have 5 random roosters, 15 random hens, and 20 chicks (at least 13 of which are pullets)

Don't all teenage girls have 40 pet chickens?!

 

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post #14 of 27
2/9/12 at 5:56pm
Thread Starter 

For extra-calcium I've added broken egg shells at the food. 

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post #15 of 27
2/9/12 at 6:08pm
Thread Starter 

Today I saw ''her'' sitting at the place where I think is the nest. ''She" always sleeps there with the male like the first photo. I hope having eggs soon. She's about 45 days already, so it wont be long!

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post #16 of 27
2/9/12 at 8:23pm

Button quail eggs are awesome!  For the short time I had a hen, she laid greenish brown eggs - they looked like mini olive egger eggs!

 

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I have 5 random roosters, 15 random hens, and 20 chicks (at least 13 of which are pullets)

Don't all teenage girls have 40 pet chickens?!

 

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NPIP# GA-1245    My Page      My Blog     Photos Of My Chickens!

I have 5 random roosters, 15 random hens, and 20 chicks (at least 13 of which are pullets)

Don't all teenage girls have 40 pet chickens?!

 

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post #17 of 27
2/10/12 at 1:50pm
Thread Starter 

I just can't wait for eggs and chicks!

Both they were born in incubators. I wish they brood their own eggs? Can it happen or the fact of being incubated can disturb it?

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post #18 of 27
2/10/12 at 4:44pm

I read in about a hundred different places that they won't brood, but the other day I was visiting the breeder I gave my mean button quail to and he told me that his brood all the time!  They aren't in pairs, either, most of his are in trios and quads.

 

NPIP# GA-1245    My Page      My Blog     Photos Of My Chickens!

I have 5 random roosters, 15 random hens, and 20 chicks (at least 13 of which are pullets)

Don't all teenage girls have 40 pet chickens?!

 

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NPIP# GA-1245    My Page      My Blog     Photos Of My Chickens!

I have 5 random roosters, 15 random hens, and 20 chicks (at least 13 of which are pullets)

Don't all teenage girls have 40 pet chickens?!

 

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post #19 of 27
2/11/12 at 10:05am
Thread Starter 

Hopefully it wil happen to me too!

I'm think that the silver one is a female. She has some kinda stripes at the breast, like the normal female.

The couple is always together! 

Oh, about the food. The one i found is 21% protein. I know that the best one are 24% or even more, but is 21% enough? 

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post #20 of 27
2/11/12 at 12:32pm

I don't think 21% is enough.  24% is supposed to be the minimum, and higher is better.  This is what I feed my Coturnix, it has 30.5% protein: http://shop.mazuri.com/mazuriexoticgamebirdstater.aspx I have to order it, though, so I'm trying to find something else that's more convenient.

 

NPIP# GA-1245    My Page      My Blog     Photos Of My Chickens!

I have 5 random roosters, 15 random hens, and 20 chicks (at least 13 of which are pullets)

Don't all teenage girls have 40 pet chickens?!

 

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NPIP# GA-1245    My Page      My Blog     Photos Of My Chickens!

I have 5 random roosters, 15 random hens, and 20 chicks (at least 13 of which are pullets)

Don't all teenage girls have 40 pet chickens?!

 

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