right ok thanks knew they werent that common as otherwise the nickname for blue breasted/chinese wouldnt have stuck but didnt know they were so hard to raise
hi just wondered does anyone keep actual button quail not the chinese painted quail but actual hemipodes and how common are they what are they like to keep? thanks
posted this in the pheasant/chukar bit but got no replies so here it is again i got back of holiday on saturday and checked my birds i noticed in the morning my female red legged partridge was sitting down on the floor normally they jump up to where they roost at the top of the avairy when i...
i dont hink english "golden italian" are the same as your "golden" as the genes here are not lethal also are your fawn the same as ours in the fact that bred with normal japs they create auto sexing chicks?
i know how you feel my buttons have been pecking the toes of one baby they hatched 5 days after the others added to this in the past 3 days a button hen flew away when i was cleaning out and somehow a cage door came undone in the night and the female coturnix escaped luckly yhe male stayed in
had to remove one baby and shes now fine with the others but will be keeping a close eye for some reason one baby hatched 5 days later and is a golden pearl as opposed to the other 4 which are 5 days older and are all cinnamons and she doesnt like this younger different coloured chick
hi i have chinese painted or button quail pair that have hatched chicks for the first time the male is parent reared and the female incuabtor reared i have noticed recently the female pecking the chicks toes and picking them up the male does not do this and although seems less bothered about...
with coturnix if they are mature you can gentle squeeze near the rear of the quailowards the cloaca and males are normally swollen and you get a sort of foam come out females you get nothing
hi i have done this loads of times and it has been fine i have no problems and have kept them together even until they are adults. you do sometimes get a coturnix which is a bit problamatic with the smaller buttons but most are normally fine. i normally stop turning night 14/day 15 and leave the...
http://www.thatquailplace.com/articles/index.php?id=8
knew i could find it somewhere this talks about teaching buttons how to raise chicks and how they need to learn the whole cycle by watching something they never see in most situations eg incuabtor raised in a huge hatch then heat lamped then...
cant broodiness be carried through the male line as well as my buttons which have just hatched i paired a parent reared cock with a hen i had seen showing signs of interest in eggs/nest building in the avairy and both have sat on the eggs and are now raising the chicks however i know coturnix...
well done they are amazing i would love to have a broody coturnix i have had broody button quail and one hatched 4 chicks 3 days ago so i will try to create a line of just parent reared buttons next year if i get another broody button i may try and foster japenese quail eggs under her to make...