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I have two pairs of buttons, and both hens have been laying an egg almost every day without fail for a year now. We have their lights on a timer matching local sunrise and sunset, so their "days" get shorter towards winter. However, last year they only stopped laying for about 2 weeks during the...

I have a bonded male-female pair of buttons living together—they get along very well with one problem… the female is gradually getting a bald head. The male is quite clumsy with breeding, and pulls out the feathers on the back of her head to the point where she now has a good 1cm bald patch...

I have a male button/CPQ I've posted about here before who's been looking scruffy for a long time, although his mate looks fine. We changed their food and he went through a molt, but after a few days, he started getting frayed feathers again. We managed to catch him tonight after they'd settled...

One of my indoor button/chinese painted/king quails has had quite wet poops for a few weeks now. I've been adding probiotics to their water every day for the last 2 weeks (it looks like they also contain electrolytes), but today it's become really bad, like bubbly brown water. She also seems to...

I've posted before about Humbug who has been looking quite ragged recently. I'm currently moving them all onto a new feed which should be a bit more nutritious than their current gamebird crumble/seed mix. However, over the past few days he's sometimes been sitting in one spot on the platform a...

I have one male button/king/chinese painted quail who looks very rough at the moment! He's been this way for a couple of months, and it seems to be getting worse: He lives inside in a large vivarium with his mate. They eat a mix labelled as specially for button quail, which is a gamebird...

I'm a bit concerned about one of my males, as he used to look in good condition, but over the past couple of weeks has started to look a bit "frizzy", and there have been a few feathers scattered around. I know this is the right time of year for birds to be moulting (I'm UK based), but they seem...

I'm totally new to birds, and thought it would be interesting to know what certain things mean when my buttons do them! I'm hoping I can add to this thread as I notice new noises or behaviours, and see if anyone else with buttons (or perhaps all birds/quail do the same) knows what's going on...

I'm planning on sprouting some finch seeds in a tray, then putting that whole thing in my button quail's home for them to eat. I'm having a hard time finding plain old, unfertilised dirt if you can believe that (we don't have a garden). Would coco coir/coconut fibre be usable? I want something...

We have four sweet, healthy button quail looking for new homes, as we had a great hatch, but only space to keep one pair. We're based in North West London and are happy for anyone to come and collect them, or we may be able to drive them out to areas within a few hours. They're currently 5...

I've got some button quails in a large vivarium that came with a polystyrene background in it. They seem to peck at it now and then and I'm wondering if it's harmful for them to ingest? The are still eating and drinking as normal. Is there any sort of bird-safe coating or sealant I might be able...

I was hoping someone might be able to help me out with sexing and/or figuring out the colour mutations of my 4.5ish week old button/chinese painted quail. I'm UK based if that makes a difference to the available mutations! 1: The pictures are a bit overexposed, the pattern goes along the back...

I've been raising my button/Chinese painted quail chicks on Allen & Page's turkey starter crumb supplemented with boiled egg, but they've been acting a little odd (walking backwards after eating) and I want to swap out the food to see if it's a problem. I'm guessing 5 weeks is old enough to...

A couple of my 4 week old button/chinese painted quail chicks have started doing a short backwards scoot every so often (not pooping) — one does it much more often. Is it a fear/stress response, or could they be injured or sick? As far as I can tell they're all still eating and drinking...

I'm finding it a little tricky to find reliable sources for what ages to do certain things for button quail chicks, and was hoping people here might be able to help if I post everything I'm unsure about so far? 1. What age should they be moved onto other food than starter crumb, and what sort...

My buttons have been on pine shavings for 2.5 days now (they are just over a week old) but I've noticed some of them still picking up and swallowing small pieces of the bedding. They all still eat their normal food and drink water. Is this going to cause a problem?

My button chicks are about 1 week old now, they've been eating turkey starter and boiled egg so far. Today I've changed their bedding to pine shavings, and started giving them small amounts of finely ground mealworm (in an attempt to bribe them to not be terrified of me). I've noticed a few of...

I have a button quail chick who is 3 days old, and only seems to be doing watery poops, and the last one had a couple of bubbles. Admittedly I haven't seen it poop that many times, so hopefully I am only seeing the cecal ones by chance (assuming quail do cecal poops like chickens?), but I wanted...

I helped my first button chick out of her shell a couple of hours ago thanks to @Nabiki 's advice, as she'd had a lot of trouble unzipping. I had to open the incubator three times unfortunately, once to pop the top of the shell off, again when I noticed there was still some tough membrane...

I've got a plastic tote set up with black rubber non-slip mat in the bottom and a ceramic 50W bulb. The problem is, when I leave the thermometer probe on the floor, it measures a good 10°C (about 20°F) higher than when leaving it propped up just barely above the ground so it only measures the...