Humans cannot be infected with this virus. (Pox in humans is caused by a different virus.) However you can carry the virus to your birds on shoes or equipment, so be sure to thoroughly wash and sanitize hands after handling birds or equipment, and be sure to sanitize equipment.
It looks like dry pox. Dry pox is a virus typically transmitted by mosquitos and appears on the chickens' skin in non- feathered areas. It is highly contagious to other chickens but spreads slowly, so you need to continue to keep your affected birds separated. Once your chickens get dry pox they...
We will have to look in to shipping button quail. We have never really thought about it and don't really know how we would even do it. But we will definitely do some research :) But as of right now, no we do not ship.
(1) We are fairly new to chickens....about 2 years....and learning more every day!
(2) Our aviary consists of about 30 chickens, 15 button quails, and a cockatiel.
(3) We have buff / lavendar orpingtons, barred rock, seramas, welsummers, black marans, golden laced wyandottes, polish, speckled...
We currently have 3 button quails ready to sale (2 males and 1 female--7 weeks old) and 10 more will be available in about 4 weeks. The mother is normal / wild type and the father is white. All chicks were hatched and raised by the parents. Good temperament.