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I found a site here that has some pretty good photos of the different colours, as well as pics of their chicks. Not all mutations have the bib, this includes some silvers. I have a red breasted silver male, his head is a much darker colour than his body and he has the white bib marking. He also...

Well, I went from 4 two year old birds (pairs) and wanting more buttons for over a year, to an additional 7 birds - total of 4 males and 3 hens. They're all young birds from two different breeders. Two of my new males have extra white on their foreheads and bibs. One is I think a cinnamon, the...

Good! This is one of those occasions where I'm glad to be wrong. I agree with the other posters, chicks can sometimes eat until they seem to be about to burst.

That lump looks exactly like an infection that killed one of my hens a month ago. The lump appears on the wing in the same spot. Eventually the skin and tissue underneath die and scab over. The disease is called gangrenous dermatitis. It's caused by a combination of bacteria. It can appear when...

Yup - they grow really fast too. Mine are 3 weeks old and already look like adults except a bit smaller. The male has started to crow. A week or so after hatch they start to play, which is really cute. They hop and pop like popcorn and sometimes hop over each other. Mine still do it, but not as...

My little guys ignored mealworms as well. Once they were about 3 weeks I tried again and now they go nuts for them. I started by mixing them in with chopped greens, which they love. One of my adult males does a comical dance when I give him greens with mealworms. He picks up just one worm and...

I'm thinking it would probably be better if there were more of them together, to spread the aggression and breeding around. I would also give them multiple hides. Right now I have two adults and one young male. One of the adults is plucking his breast. When my younger hen chicks are mature...

Congratulations! It's normal if a few of your eggs don't hatch. My chicks hatched on Apr 16 and I just took them out of the brooder. Out of 9 eggs I had two duds, one died in the shell during hatch and the last one hatched blind and deaf and died a couple of days later. I hope your remaining...

I have some surplus male quail. I started with two, now after my latest hatch I have one more. I don't keep my quail for meat, so I have no interest in killing and processing them. Right now my two older males are in separate adjoining cages. They can't see each other but they spend much of...

General reasons quail can be found dead unexpectedly: 1. They can die very quickly from infection. I had one start to act lethargic one evening, the next morning she was dead with no sign of injury. Some infections like botulism can kill within hours. They can also die from toxins or spoiled...

You don't have to go through all the fuss of growing plants and sprouting seeds. You can just clip fresh greens like lettuce, parsley, cilantro, bok choy to the side of her cage. They love to tear off bits and eat them. Live plants in her cage will only get torn to bits. An alternative to live...

LOL I'm in Canada, so no wood pigeons here. I was in the UK many years ago and saw them from far away. I'm not sure if they're the same size as the standard ferals we have here. The best equivalent in size would be a large navel or Mineola orange. The hens tend to be a bit bigger and fatter than...

I think the mistake I made was not providing them with places to hide. Both buttons and Japanese quail require hiding places. They must be something with more than one exit so nobody gets trapped. I use fake plants for reptiles, or even fake dollar store plants. I hang the foliage from the top...

I've never seen a Serama in person, so I'm not sure how big they are compared to quail. I seem to recall Seramas are the smallest chicken breed? I wouldn't mind getting a couple someday, from the pics I've seen they're nice looking birds. A coturnix quail is about the size of a softball. You can...

I have both kinds and I like them each for their different qualities. Button quail are beautiful and fun to watch, just not for cuddling. I have a silver male who's breathtaking (imo) because he has gorgeous pinkish shading on his belly, which looks like a cloud at sunset. The males inflate...

I find that sand doesn't make as much of a mess as pine shavings. If you use the kind of small animal cage that has a plastic tray bottom, it should be fine. Those cages are built to keep the animal from throwing its bedding out of the cage. Sand on the bottom should be at least 2 inches deep...

Coturnix aren't really stinkier, they're just bigger. If you're just keeping them as pets, most people only keep a few. In small numbers they don't stink, as long as you clean their cage regularly. If you keep them commercially (for eggs and meat) you would want to keep more and keep them...

The tanks themselves were a bit of a pain. For one thing, they were heavy to lift when it was time to wash them out. I used pine shavings as bedding because they were easier to change than the sand. However, with the shavings, food dishes and eggs would get buried. I found it impossible to keep...

I just found this thread. I've been keeping button quail for almost 3 years now. I also keep Japanese (coturnix) quail. Here are a few things I've learned while keeping these birds. Dust - quail produce a lot of dust compared to other birds. My Japanese (3 hens and a roo) are kept in a closed...

My two Silkie pullets used to play fight and chest bump every morning. I worried that they were males as well. Now my cockerel doesn't do it with the hens, and I don't see the hens chest bumping either. If my partridge hen sees the cockerel doing anything she disapproves of (like backing around...