Chinese Blue Breasted Quail (Button Quail) Color Varieties

[The Critter Place]

I think this really needs added into the "Sticky" , how do we do that?

 

[animal8]

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I agree with this

 

[TheRealTimShady]

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I agree with this

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[The Critter Place]

Does anyone know how to ask a mod to make this a sticky? I'm pretty new here and have no idea how to go about it.

 

[snyd08]

you just did!

 

[andrea98]

I just bought 3 quail that two of them are blue with rust colored bellies but no bib?? Are they males??

 

[dt1958]

Great post !!! Sticky material for sure.

 

[Stellar]

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Blue and rust coloring are indicators of male so yes, you have two males. They are easy to sex as adults. The whites are the most difficult ones since they don't get the rust feathers. If you have one hen in the three quail I would pair up two and then try to find a hen for the second male.

 

[andrea98]

Very lucky here .. The pet store is allowing me to return the other male ..

benefits of being a repeat customer

ohh & they gave me 7 fertile eggs too ( 2 had cracks in them so I opened them & they are fertilized ) they are going in the incubator

 

[andrea98]

Ok everyone is settled in now . I get an egg a day & they look just like the blue pair you have pictured here . Will he not get a bib? How often should I feed them mealworms ? I feed about 4-5 a day & she is the only one to eat them , he holds them & calls to her to come get them . She is missing her back & neck & head feathers due to over mating at the pet store , they ate growing back in now.