Button Quail Chat

[mixedUPturk]

Oh! i also ment to tell you all that white is how my lil roo started too. Heres a pic of when i forst rescued them.

 

[Serin]

Oh! i also ment to tell you all that white is how my lil roo started too. Heres a pic of when i forst rescued them.

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He definitely is a slightly different mutation from mine but Idk what.

As far as my pair they really are so sweet with each other now and have really bonded. Grover is always preening Annie. He comes scurrying to the door when he sees me now expecting a mealworm, will take it from my fingers and then goes up to her and actually gives her all of his treats be they hemp seeds or mealworms and now won't eat a single thing until she's so stuffed she won't eat any more. He'll just keep taking them and running them to her. He's so considerate and generous! I've never had a bird that did that.

 

[mixedUPturk]

He definitely is a slightly different mutation from mine but Idk what.

As far as my pair they really are so sweet with each other now and have really bonded. Grover is always preening Annie. He comes scurrying to the door when he sees me now expecting a mealworm, will take it from my fingers and then goes up to her and actually gives her all of his treats be they hemp seeds or mealworms and now won't eat a single thing until she's so stuffed she won't eat any more. He'll just keep taking them and running them to her. He's so considerate and generous! I've never had a bird that did that.

I dont think so. He molted out of all of that and is red breasted blue now. Was still really young there.

 

[Serin]

I dont think so. He molted out of all of that and is red breasted blue now. Was still really young there.

I looked it up. Mine blue breasted. So that is why mine is a bit different.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I looked it up. Mine blue breasted. So that is why mine is a bit different.

Awesome!

 

[Serin]

I just found two eggs laid in a little nest of hay in the wooden box in the quail cage.

 

[mixedUPturk]

I just found two eggs laid in a little nest of hay in the wooden box in the quail cage.

How fun!

I blow mine out and save them for crafts. Do you save yours?

 

[Serin]

How fun!

I blow mine out and save them for crafts. Do you save yours?

I'm hoping she sets on them, she seems to have made a nest for them and is not just laying them all over. If she doesn't I'll try a couple under my society finches to hatch them!

 

[mixedUPturk]

My hen always makes nests and lays in the same areas but she hasnt tried to sit yet. She is about 6 months old now. I wont let my chicken hens even try til theyre at least 1 year and am applying the same rule to the quailie. id love to see her hatch a great many eggs over her lifetime. I wonder if its like chickens and the first few wks of eggs arent fertile anyway. You know if u crack em you can see? Have u ever candled an egg before? I had set 2 doz of my wyandottes eggs in spring this year(ETA within the first month laying) and got 2 chicks for all our eggs( then hatched great many later on) ill be making deviled eggs for this sunday and including about a dozen buttons

 

[Serin]

My hen always makes nests and lays in the same areas but she hasnt tried to sit yet. She is about 6 months old now. I wont let my chicken hens even try til theyre at least 1 year and am applying the same rule to the quailie. id love to see her hatch a great many eggs over her lifetime. I wonder if its like chickens and the first few wks of eggs arent fertile anyway. You know if u crack em you can see? Have u ever candled an egg before? I had set 2 doz of my wyandottes eggs in spring this year and got 2 chicks for all our eggs ill be making deviled eggs for this sunday and including about a dozen buttons

Buttons live a life on fast forward versus chickens and by eight weeks they're mature from what I read, so I figure they know if they're ready more than I would. Their natural habitat deep in the forest undergrowth would suggest they would want a lot of cover and security to set on their eggs so possibly you may have luck adding some silk plants? My Annie has laid them in the wooden box and both have piled Timothy hay around them, the nest is quite dark as it opens away from the window and the opening is obscured by the silk ferns so I can just barely see the two eggs. There could be more, I am not disturbing her.


Yeah I've candled hundreds of eggs! Mostly finch/parakeet/canary and the four Olive laid when we had the cock pigeon. You can't tell fertility until the egg has been incubated three or four days though.

Whether or not she sits I am happy that she is comfortable enough to nest, and glad the cage cleaning did not disturb them any. They seem very adjusted to the setting now. I have them where they have three walls behind them so they have a private spot where nobody walks by close, though my quaker parrot is caged directly above them and they are unphased by his noise. I think having a door on the front of the cage is better with them as coming from the top of the cage is more like a predatory attack. Mine don't mind my hands at their level but boink if I have to open the lid and come form above.