Due to current circumstances, I am needing to rehome some of my Chinese Painted Quail / Chinese Blue Breasted Quail. These are also commonly called Button Quail.
Basic needs for these birds are non-medicated gamebird feed and warmth -- they can't handle winter temperatures below about 60...
Crowing
They will crow. Period. It is lessened slightly if the extra males are kept far from the females, so that they won't know they exist. They'll still crowl
Ammonia
You have two options that I've found work OK. Pine pellet bedding for solid bottom cages is one option. If it gets warm...
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I did specifically say in my posts that what I'm saying won't work for everyone, because it probably won't. I have raised my Buttons with chickens and they were fine, so whats wrong with saying that? I may still be a newbie but situation is the same. Whether I'm somone with years of...
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LMAO! Not quite. You must definitely CANNOT do whatever you would like on your own property.
If we look at game birds alone, there are varied laws around the nation that affect what you can and cannot legally do. You need to be aware of what they are in your state. If you decide not...
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I have an unused septic tank in my backyard...
SOLD!
HOW SOON TIL YOU CAN START WITH NEW OCCUPANTS?
.............. NOW WHERE DID ALL THEM KIDS GO TO AROUND HERE?
Yesterday! I know right where that tank is, too, though you'll have to dig a bit to find the access port. We found a...
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However, if I remember correctly, you've also only had this batch of birds for a few months. You don't exactly have the perspective of a long time period to look back on here in giving this advice based on your own experience. It seems like it was just a matter of months ago...
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so far, I am new here, but I have observered many varieties of "quail people" here., here are "my" simple observations.
there are people "who own quails", they may have them as an afterthought, they may think of them as "small chickens".
there are people "who know quails", they have a...
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However, if I remember correctly, you've also only had this batch of birds for a few months. You don't exactly have the perspective of a long time period to look back on here in giving this advice based on your own experience. It seems like it was just a matter of months ago...
No one has 6 packs here this year. It's all 4 packs or single larger plants. I have yet to find a single vendor with pepper plants being sold except as the large jiffy pots. Those are from $2.89 to $3.99 each , depending on the store. I left them there and bought seeds to start at home, though...
PortugalBreeder,
There is confusion and disagreement on the classification of the Chinese Painted Quail / Button Quail.
Some resources list them as Coturnix chinesis. Others list them as Excalfactria Chinensis. I've yet to see hard scientific data / evidence that indicates where these birds...
Good way to risk the lives of your chicks...
Safer to just put a lamp over them.
As for button quail, not all of them make good mothers either. Many will go broody. Some will sit through til hatch. Some will kill the chicks...
'Fraid not JJ. They aren't even close to each other in their scientific classification.
Darn you! Now you made me hungry for some good old American persimmons!
I didn't go. I would have had to go and randomly plant it in some already forested area of a park, or nurse it along for a few weeks until I could plant it on our other property, upon which my husband would promptly mow it down by accident.
Not worth it.
Now, if it had been a fruit tree, I'd...