Hi all,
My pair of button quail live with my Coturnix hens currently, and get along like peas in a pod. I often see the buttons snuggling with the other hens, so they’re coexisting well, and I know there is no fighting occuring between them.
In the day all is fine... but at night, it’s a different story.
My quail all pretty much go to sleep by 9pm, although I close curtains earlier (pesky short summer nights), and they’re really good at camping out for the evening, yet every single night, one of the buttons will sporadically take flight in the cage at random and crash into the bars (multiple times).
I know for a fact my Coturnix aren’t bullying them in the dark. Whenever I get up to check on them, they’re always laid down and looking just as fed up with the noise waking them as I am. It’s only ever the buttons who are awake and roaming the cage in the dark.
Are Chinese painted quails nocturnal or something? They never fly in their cage in the day, only when they’re let out of the cage. So why at night do they suddenly get the urge? Are they having night terrors? I’ve had parrots that would leap off their perch in the night and crash land after a bad dream. Is the male button possibly trying to get frisky only at night time and spooking the hen into flight? I don’t ever see him try to mate in the day so I’m not sure.
I just worry I’m gonna wake up to find one injured or worse if they keep hitting the bars so hard. Even now as I lay in bed typing this I can hear the buttons cheeping and climbing on everything, why are they so hyper at night??
My pair of button quail live with my Coturnix hens currently, and get along like peas in a pod. I often see the buttons snuggling with the other hens, so they’re coexisting well, and I know there is no fighting occuring between them.
In the day all is fine... but at night, it’s a different story.
My quail all pretty much go to sleep by 9pm, although I close curtains earlier (pesky short summer nights), and they’re really good at camping out for the evening, yet every single night, one of the buttons will sporadically take flight in the cage at random and crash into the bars (multiple times).
I know for a fact my Coturnix aren’t bullying them in the dark. Whenever I get up to check on them, they’re always laid down and looking just as fed up with the noise waking them as I am. It’s only ever the buttons who are awake and roaming the cage in the dark.
Are Chinese painted quails nocturnal or something? They never fly in their cage in the day, only when they’re let out of the cage. So why at night do they suddenly get the urge? Are they having night terrors? I’ve had parrots that would leap off their perch in the night and crash land after a bad dream. Is the male button possibly trying to get frisky only at night time and spooking the hen into flight? I don’t ever see him try to mate in the day so I’m not sure.
I just worry I’m gonna wake up to find one injured or worse if they keep hitting the bars so hard. Even now as I lay in bed typing this I can hear the buttons cheeping and climbing on everything, why are they so hyper at night??
