button quail

  1. K

    Question about this type of egg

    Hi there, I have a question about this type of egg and what causes it! Note that these are king (button) quail eggs. I just got an unusually completely white egg, and another completely without a shell, which is soft and spongy! This picture is attached Please help me about this. Thanks.
  2. CloneFly

    Staggered Hatch Dilemma

    Hello All! So the day before New Years (Dec.30th) I placed a couple button quail eggs and 2 jumbo quail eggs in my 12slot incubator with hopes that they would hatch... No such luck, but just for the heck of it, I continued placing every button quail egg I've found in the incubator with hopes...
  3. S

    King quail with strange eye shape

    I have a female king quail who today I noticed was being picked in by her male. He’s always been super sweet so I don’t know what got into him, but she’s a bit roughed up. While I was checking her out, I noticed both her eyes seem to be a bit strange, it almost looks like the top eyelid has been...
    • SummerQuails
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    • button quail eye help hen king quail problem
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  4. A

    Buttonquail’s are dying. Need help urgent.

    I need a Buttonquail expert help please. I have an aviary that my Buttonquail Lauren it’s rather large and I can send pictures. For the past three months all the Buttonquail‘s were doing perfectly fine no problems no fights no food issues laying eggs like mad. Then all the sudden they started...
    • ABohrer
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    • button quail
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  5. solidstate

    Eggtopsy surprise (warning: sensitive images)

    Warning, graphic images below text. Context; I put 10 fertile button quail eggs from my birds in the incubator. Lost power early on for 24hrs and eggs got down to 70° F by the time power came back. That was day 4 or 5. By lockdown, I had weeded out several that had quit early. I didn’t open...
  6. R

    Friendliest button quail

    They let me hold them and pet them... is anyone else's button quail this chill?!
    • romybuttonquail
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    • bird button quail cute quail temperament
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    Button Mama with her adopted baby Snowflake Bobwhite. When you have too many baby Snowflake quail, you give one to a motherly Button quail. The adopted Father who is mated with Mama Button also taken part in raising this Baby. Too Cute!
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    When you have too many baby Snowflake quail, you give one to a motherly Button quail. So cute. The baby is now 8 weeks old and he stills stay close to Mama. Also, My 4 year old Button Mama is mated with a 3 year old boy who has helped out with rearing this baby Snowflake. so cute!
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  9. milliesbuttons

    Button Quail Lockdown

    Scuse the first timer here but a few questions on day 14 as I prepare for button lockdown. TIA Does it sounds right that temp was at 37.7c and now dropped it to 37.5c for lockdown & increased humidity? How do I know if simply keeping the two chambers of the Brinsea Mini 2 Advance full is going...
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    • brinsea mini 2 advance button button quail chinese button quail day 14 lockdown
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  11. T3rrorToff33

    I wanna start hatching and raising buttons - looking for dialog :)

    I've been looking into raising/breeding quail myself for agessss and me and my mom have 100% decided it'd be really fun and possibly even useful to do. We were thinking about having an outdoor aviary for Japanese quail for months now, but my mom is gonna have heart surgery soon and will be in...
    • T3rrorToff33
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    • breeding quail button quail chinese button quail genetics
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  12. R

    Button Quail playing dead??

    So sometimes my button quail will randomly do like a dying squawk and then just flop onto the ground. Like full on head splat on the ground, body flat, like he died and just went "bleh". Idk how to explain it, but his head lays flat on the ground. Scares the hell out of me, but when I approach...
    • romybuttonquail
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    • button button quail dead escape artist sick
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  13. R

    Button quail going broody??

    I took out her first ten eggs to give to someone else. I didn't want to hatch them bcuz they looked small. My button quail first laid two eggs after that. They are both next to each other in the cage. I didn't see anymore days following that so I assumed she was done laying. However, I checked...
  14. P

    Sexing Button Quail

    Hello! I'm having issues sexinf button quail. This is my first time, and I'd like some advice on what you guys think.
    • Pnatoes
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    • button quail help sexingbuttonquail sexingquail
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  15. T

    Button day 20

    Hi all ! Total newbie here ! Ordered 3 button quail eggs online . One hatched on day 16 - I had to help because it hatched in the wrong egg and its head was between its feet and they were tied together with membrane and it basically was going to die . Now it’s day 20 and it’s running around like...
  16. solidstate

    Button Quail Chick Colors?

    These guys hatched 5/19. I ordered 20 eggs. 10 hatched and 3 were DIS at breakout. Any thoughts on colors?
  17. solidstate

    Button Quail - getting back into quail

    I’ve not hatched any buttons since maybe 2015, or so, and my last button died in 2020. I have recently ordered 15+ CBBQ eggs from burtonspirogue aviaries and they will be arriving on the 26th! I’m hoping for a good hatch rate, but these are shipped eggs so I’m not sure what to expect (my last...
    • solidstate
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    • aviary button quail diamond dove
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  18. S

    Just started incubating Buttons yesterday

    Long ago — LONG AGO — I was given an adult pair of button quail who managed to raise a clutch in a flight cage for finches. Since we aren’t allowed to have chickens here I thought I would skirt around the issue a bit and try just a small amount of Buttons (18 eggs). At least I know that if...
  19. sleepycat

    changing button quail bedding

    so i've been keeping my button quail on small animal bedding (the lil tissues) and have been considering changing their bedding to something different. the small pet bedding is very expensive, and i spend lots of money getting it for them every month. would i be safe to use soil or dirt for...
    • sleepycat
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    • bedding button quail quail
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  20. sleepycat

    possible broody button hen??

    i have 4 buttons in a large cage (presumably 2 roos and 2 hens), and ever since the hens started laying (around 3 days ago), one of the hens has been hiding away behind the feeder in a little area that is hidden by leaves. i never see her out, besides when i bring them veggies in the morning...
    • sleepycat
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    • broody button quail quail
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