button quail behavior

hiya i’ve had my male and female quail for just under a year now and recently my male will not stop growling and crowing at stupid hours of the night/morning i have tried so many things to keep him quiet and can not figure out why he’s doing this. the room he is in is now kept pitch black to...

So I’ve had my button quails since they were just a few days old ...as they were growing i was sure that one of them was a female because of the way she called out ....now that they are a bit older I noticed that she is doing that low growl and crowing loudly. Does this mean she’s actually a...

So today, one of my lightbulbs went out on the heat lamp for my button hen. She got cold and lethargic, but I warned her up with her brother and a heat lamp that I had an addition. I gave her more food and water, a new heatlamp, and had to go to work. Now it is 11:02 PM, and she is still...

I purchased 2 pairs of buttons from a breeder in another state and received them about 2 weeks ago. They have adapted fine, however this morning I found the blue female deceased in the cage :hit she was acting completely normal and this was unexpected. Now my Darth Vader male, the blue female’s...

This is a sort of update from my last thread but I’m now faced with a second set of worry. If you’ve read my last thread you’d know I recently rescued of flock of fourteen quail from a bad situation. The Japanese quail are doing AWESOME..they’ve given up on plucking and they’re nice and fluffy...

WARNING!! THIS POST INCLUDES PHOTO AND VIDEOS OF ONE OF MY BUTTON QUAIL CHICKS DYING TRAGICALLY. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART! These babies were hatched on Friday June 26. They are 4 days old. When I went to check on them this afternoon, I found the mother sitting on all 4 of the babies...

Hi everyone, I just so happened to be walking by one of my cages that had a basic brown female buttonquail (and her mate) in it, when I noticed the female flopping around belly up all over the cage. The male wasn’t doing anything. After a few seconds, she landed on her stomach, with her head...