Button or not

[ThomasR]

I am wanting a Button Quail. I have seen many videos on how scared they look. Are there any other breeds that you can actually held

thanks

 

[quailbrain]

Most quail are not the happiest to be held. I'd say coturnix are the most calm breed.

 

[mandiedriskill]

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I would have to agree. Buttons are cute to look at but are very flighty when scared. I started out with buttons because everyone said they were the easiest quail to begin with. Then I started raising coturnix and I have fell in love with them. They reqiure less cages are able to be in clonies and are easy to raise. Male buttons fight a lot not only with the same sex, but sometimes the opposite sex too. Coturnix are nice too because they can make food "eggs" or be food "meat". I only still raise button because they have grown on me but if I had to choose again I would have started off with a coturnix for a begginer.

 

[darkfur]

Coturnix are so much friendlier. We have some that like to come out of the cage and sit on your lap to watch television. I've taken them to the library for the local kids to meet and we just put down a tarp and let them go and they trot up to kids for a pat. I am told mine are unusually tame because I do handle them a lot as I raise them, but you would be hard pressed to get a button to do any of that

 

[goodheart101]

I have buttons and half of mine are friendly and some will even let us pet them and hold them and sit on my shoulder when I walk around, and when we are sitting on the floor will come and sit on our lap. But then the other half of my buttons are skiddish, scared and can wait for you to get your darn hands out of their cage and leave them the heck alone. My dentist wants to make little appetizers out of my buttons. He said he could stuff them, and how cute they would look on a platter. My skiddish ones better straighten up, I might let my dentist try it. Just kidding......little buttons.....I won't even give you to my dentist for a pet. I

my buttons.

 

[Doc Henry]

The biggest problem is that they can run under the tiny gap under doors it makes them tough to catch when (not if) they get loose. Coturnix are much more calm and friendly.