Recent content by blackoaktammy

Thanks for tagging me @Quailobsessed. I'm dealing with some serious health issues and I'm not on very much at all. The chocolate bird with a white face is a blue face. Looks to me like a hen. The other bird is a red breasted. Red breasted take a lot longer to come into full color, but I believe...

Hi! Thanks @Quailobsessed for tagging me! I've been working from home for a few weeks and haven't been able to log in. Regarding tuxedos, tuxedo is a recessive gene, so both parents would need to have the gene in order to produce tuxedo chicks. I know Australia has different mutations than we...

I use Little Giant for my buttons, and I get great hatch rates. When they go on lockdown, I but a damp piece of burlap on the floor of the incubator to keep them from getting their legs stuck in the mesh. I use paper towels for the chicks. Paper towels come in all different flavors. I make sure...

Any cabinet incubator from GQF. I know a lot people who have used GQF, and I've never heard a bad word about them.

I have over 100 quail in my house. I can testify to the dander/dust problem! :) Rule of thumb is one square foot per bird. My quail are in a variety of setups, from guinea pig cages to a converted bookcase to custom built cages. My young quail (just hatched to fully feathered) are in aquariums...

Splash is a white bird with splashes of colored feathers. Pied are patches of colors. Here are pictures of the backs of a pearl hen and a normal hen. Hopefully these will help.

Welcome! Buttons are so much fun! I've not seen a bird marked like the cinnamon. White wing pied is only the first few feathers on the wing, and it looks like your guy has completely white wings. I'm thinking he's a carrier for tuxedo and it's bleeding through in odd ways. That is a blue face...

It shouldn't. You might have to use a spoon to get the eggs out, though. From what I remember of those covered nests, the opening is pretty small.

Zebras are very prolific. It doesn't surprise me at all they they laid so soon. My thought is that two or more hens were laying in the big nest before the pair decided to make it theirs. It's unlikely the hen will be able to cover so many eggs, but you never know. You can either take some of the...

What kind of quail are they? If they are buttons, pellets of any size are too big for them. Gamebird diet is a complete diet. The seeds are like candy to a child. They will pick out the seeds and leave the rest. Personally, I would not put seeds in with the food, only give them as a treat. Make...

What kind of quail are they? If they are feeders, they are most likely coturnix, but I've seen bobwhites and buttons sold as feeders as well. Care can be slightly different depending on what the are.

Buttons can be mean little buggers. Do you have an incubator that you can put the rest of the eggs in to hatch? For a newly hatched chick, you want the temperature to be 95* on the warm end in a draft free container (I use aquariums). Each week, drop the temperature back 5* until they are at...

1. Blue face male 2 & 3. Red breasted hens - red breasted can be very slow to mature. I would wait until they are 8 weeks old before definitely saying they are hens 4 & 5 - these look like silver splash. Do they have white patches other than under the chin? I think I see some white belly...

Can you get a better picture of the silver? It doesn't look like a typical male bib. It may be a silver blue face. Sometimes blue face have white feathers on their neck, both hens and males. If you have one male and two hens, there shouldn't be an issue keeping them together as long as they...

Good for you! I've never had luck vent sexing. I was told you couldn't vent sex buttons until after they have laid eggs, and by that time, if they have laid eggs, you know they're girls :gigI was thinking that tux was a blue face hen, but you still had a great hatch if you got an even number of...