Button Quail cage?

[Pokes79]

I won 6+extras "tuxedo" button quail eggs on ebay the other day and 20 eggs showed up. They weren't joking about the +extras part. I have them in the incubator now.
What makes a good cage? How much room would be needed for a pair?

 

[shelleyd2008]

I have 10 buttons (4 f, 6 m) in a rubbermaid tote about 2'x3' and they get along fine. My others are in a rat manor cage that is divided top and bottom. The top part has 2 females and 4 males, the bottom has 3 females and 4 males.

You need to make sure the spacing is no more than 1/2", and they shouldn't be kept on wire. My birds that are together were all hatched together and get along fine as a group.

 

[Pokes79]

Thanks. I have read that they fight if kept together in groups. It is good to hear that I might be able to get away with having them together.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I haven't put any together that weren't hatched together, so I don't know how they would act. But being hatched and raised together they do fine as a group. The downside to this is that you wouldn't be able to let the hens hatch their own eggs, the others would most likely kill the babies.

 

[citalk2much]

Keeping them in groups is kind of like playing with fire. Anything upsets them can make them turn on each other! I keep mine in 90qt starlite totes as pairs. I also have a pair in my aviary. I have keep groups in the past of ones hatched together until they where rehomed. When I first started I housed them all together to a bad end. Just a note of warning.

 

[citalk2much]

Keeping them in groups is kind of like playing with fire. Anything upsets them can make them turn on each other! I keep mine in 90qt starlite totes as pairs. I also have a pair in my aviary. I have keep groups in the past of ones hatched together until they where rehomed. When I first started I housed them all together to a bad end. Just a note of warning.