Button quail are not Cold Tolerant and they must be bred in pairs

[Robo]

Yes, but people asking those questions when there are 10 posts with the same title and answers telling them what to do.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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There are a couple of button quail stickies, I have one too.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Indeed you do and I would have come back and edited. But the discussions today were getting a little heated at times, best to leave well enough alone I thought.

 

[danischi24]

I'm certainly no newbie. The males that I have had have always been little stud muffins & if kept with less than 3 hens, took most of their back & head feathers off. Maybe the Chinese Painted Quail in Africa are different than the American ones in temperament.

 

[colowyo0809]

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I would like to point out, that sometimes it is less newbies making mistakes so much as newbies having bad luck. I had 23 button quail eggs in the incubator, 2 hatched and only one survived past day three. So, at the moment I've got one button quail (whom I need to check the vent on, if the part about the red feathers is right) and it is is the brooder with three young chicks that hatched at the same time. And, contrary to everyone person who told me that this quail baby would die (what are baby quail called anyways? I'm not sure i've actually seen it anywhere?) because it was in with the chicks, so far it is doing just fine, and it has been almost two months.

i'd say in terms of surviving, this one is pretty darn good eh?

granted, I will have to seperate them, but for the moment all is well

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I would like to point out, that sometimes it is less newbies making mistakes so much as newbies having bad luck. I had 23 button quail eggs in the incubator, 2 hatched and only one survived past day three. So, at the moment I've got one button quail (whom I need to check the vent on, if the part about the red feathers is right) and it is is the brooder with three young chicks that hatched at the same time. And, contrary to everyone person who told me that this quail baby would die (what are baby quail called anyways? I'm not sure i've actually seen it anywhere?) because it was in with the chicks, so far it is doing just fine, and it has been almost two months.

i'd say in terms of surviving, this one is pretty darn good eh?

granted, I will have to seperate them, but for the moment all is well

Baby quail are called chicks, and the red feathers thing is right

 

[colowyo0809]

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I would like to point out, that sometimes it is less newbies making mistakes so much as newbies having bad luck. I had 23 button quail eggs in the incubator, 2 hatched and only one survived past day three. So, at the moment I've got one button quail (whom I need to check the vent on, if the part about the red feathers is right) and it is is the brooder with three young chicks that hatched at the same time. And, contrary to everyone person who told me that this quail baby would die (what are baby quail called anyways? I'm not sure i've actually seen it anywhere?) because it was in with the chicks, so far it is doing just fine, and it has been almost two months.

i'd say in terms of surviving, this one is pretty darn good eh?

granted, I will have to seperate them, but for the moment all is well

Baby quail are called chicks, and the red feathers thing is right

Sweet

Well, now I need to go catch Zippy and take a pic so you can tell me what he/she is plus look at its vental area and figure out if it's a he or a she

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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I would like to point out, that sometimes it is less newbies making mistakes so much as newbies having bad luck. I had 23 button quail eggs in the incubator, 2 hatched and only one survived past day three. So, at the moment I've got one button quail (whom I need to check the vent on, if the part about the red feathers is right) and it is is the brooder with three young chicks that hatched at the same time. And, contrary to everyone person who told me that this quail baby would die (what are baby quail called anyways? I'm not sure i've actually seen it anywhere?) because it was in with the chicks, so far it is doing just fine, and it has been almost two months.

i'd say in terms of surviving, this one is pretty darn good eh?

granted, I will have to seperate them, but for the moment all is well

I hatched four Button chicks and one chicken chick, the 5 of them have lived together since they hatched and ate turkey starter. All the chicks are healthy and got along fine. They often cuddled up under the chicken chick at night and she sat on them like a mommy hen. I know very little about Quail, this is my first time having them but so far everything has been smooth sailing raising them with chicken chicks!

 

[shelleyd2008]

I also raised my last buttons with chickens but eventually moved them, their box wasn't growing with them, plus I finally 'made' the button quail condo. But while they were together, they got along very well:

 

[Delta3013]

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