23 button quail eggs free to the first person who....

[Rozzie]

Go to Trader Joes and buy some fertile eggs. OOPS. Not sure how we got FERTILE eggs...guess we'll have to incubate them.

 

[colowyo0809]

lol, we don't have a trader joe's in our area

 

[colowyo0809]

Hello!
Couple questions! Do we know what kind of button quail these will be? and how long do I have between when I receive the eggs and when they need to go into the bator?

Thanks!
matthew Ryan

 

[shelleyd2008]

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You can wait up to 24 hours before setting them. I'm sure a little longer won't hurt, basically you need to give them time to 'settle' from transit and time to get to room temperature. Otherwise they're good to go.
As for what kind, that's a toss up. Some came from a golden pearl pair, some are from a pair with a blue face male and silver redbreast female. Another pair is cinnamon pearl hen with wild male, then another is silver male with silver pearl female. Most are from 2 different cinnamon pairs and a pair with a wild hen and cinnamon pearl male. But buttons are so 'mixed up' that you could hatch pure white ones from colored ones, it's really a toss up. Have fun

 

[Widget]

I'm probably breaking all the rules of mixed species with this but my one remaining button lives with my one remaining parakeet in a large flight cage. The parakeet tends to hang out at the bottom of the cage with the button. They are really cute together.
Since they are so cute and fun to have around I will be looking for some hatching button eggs at some point. Of course that some point is after I recover from the $600 I just spent to fix the pressure system on my well.

 

[Stellar]

Button quail can live with finches and parakeets. They are known as the bottom feeders as they will clean up the seeds on the bottom of the cage (yet they need a high protein diet as well). They are fine with the parakeet

 

[Widget]

I wasn't too worried since they have been together for a year. I also had a cockatiel and and green cheeked conure who were caged together for over ten years with no problems. They ended up together when I moved and had no choice but to transport them in the same cage. Picture a U-Haul cab with two cats, two dogs, a canary, two parakeets, two lovebirds, a conure and a cockatiel plus a driver. And one of the dogs was a Great Pyrenees. That was a really interesting 12 hour drive.

 

[Stellar]

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Oh yes I have been there

I had to travel from OR to Chicago and then Chicago to FL with my flock of quail, 2 dogs, 2 parrots, 2 guinea pigs, and two hamsters...then in Chicago picked up my 3rd dog and five more parrots

 

[Widget]

Must be a Chicago thing.

I was living there and working at Lincoln Park Zoo. Then I got a job in eastern Pennsylvania at another zoo. So I piled everyone up in the U-haul. That was back in 1994. One of the cats who made the move with me just passed away a couple weeks ago. She was the last survivor of the move.

 

[Quailz]

I'm a new owner and just wanted to see if i could buy a pair from you in like a month.

And i guess 37.