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    Superfoods for quail

    I recently ran out of protein supplement for my button quail and decided to mix my own. I bought a jar of powdered spirulina from my local natural foods store and mixed it with wheat grass powder and egg food (a mix of flaxseed, hempseed, millet, and egg biscuit for breeding birds.) I offer this...
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    Button quail color / egg size correlation?

    So all of my button girls are laying eggs now, and i've noticed something about their eggs. My wild type and double blue face females lay normal sized eggs, and occasionally really big eggs. Like, "how did that even come out of you" big. My golden pearl only lays normal eggs. My two tuxedo...
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    Little Buzz laying soft-shelled eggs again!

    My troublesome little tuxedo golden button girl, Buzz, hasn't laid for a while while we did some household rearrangement. The new setup for the four single quail girls includes a light fixture, and one of my other girls, Joan, has started laying HUGE perfect eggs. Buzz laid a soft-shell...
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    Button behavior: Crying all the time

    With fall here and less light in the living room, my little button quail, Buzz, has stopped laying. I put a full-spectrum light fixture on top of the pen she shares with her three sisters to hopefully get all four of them laying. They're three months old and aside from Buzz they still haven't...
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    Button quail laying soft shell eggs

    My littlest button, a gold pearl tuxedo called Buzz, was the second of my five hens to start laying at just six weeks, and so far she's been pretty troublesome. Last week i thought she might have been egg bound, only to have the problem seem to vanish overnight with no egg. A day or so later i...
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    How do i tell if she's egg bound?

    My littlest button quail, Buzz, began laying eggs four days ago. So far she's been laying every evening around 5-7pm, getting a little later each day. Today, though, no egg. I checked on her around 11pm and noticed she was sitting in the sand bath, poofed up into a little feather ball with eyes...
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    Button behavior- why won't you lay eggs!?

    So my mated female, Violet, and her male are in their own condo and very happy. She lays an egg every day at about 5pm. My other four females, however, haven't started laying yet. Two are bigger than Violet and got their grown-up feathers earlier, so i presume they're a bit older, and all of...
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    Button behavior- cowering male literally gets walked all over.

    I've been watching my mated pair of buttons closely and i've noticed my male doing something strange. He will throw himself down in front of his hen and cower while making a little peep-peep-peep noise until she steps on him. She usually just walks over him like he's a little speed bump and...
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    Button behavior- love/hate relationships in quail

    I have a mini-flock of six buttons, five girls and a boy, who are just about six to seven weeks old now. Up until now they've been very clingy with each other, desperately calling and crying if any bird is out of sight of the others. Even when my littlest was being bullied and i took her out of...
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    Quail behavior - tucking hay into feathers

    I have a few 5-6 week old buttons and i noticed one of my little hens tossing hay around the other day looking for treats. Then she stopped tossing the hay around and started tucking it into the feathers on her back, then she shook it all loose. Has anyone else seen their quail do this? Is this...
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