Button Quail Chat

[Quailobsessed]

New behavior I've been observing: the male fluffs up enormously like a turkey and charges around. He isn't specifically chasing the female, but she scurries to a hiding place and chatters loudly. The male runs back and forth a few times with his plumage super fluffed, then he slowly drops his feathers again and goes back to what he was doing, and the hen comes back out and they just go back to normal. He doesn't seem to be responding to any threat. He does it once or twice a day, it last about ten or twenty seconds. Anyone else's do that?

Mine do that too for dominance and display.

 

[Quailobsessed]

I have 12 king (button) quails currently. I love their antics!

I have three breeding pairs and two female groups.


These are my breeding pairs.

Cinnamon hen was plucked when I got her, she has since grown back her feathers.


This is one of my female groups. Mother is silver on the left. Two of them (wildtype left, cinnamon) have passed away since then. They were brooded by the mother and I kept them together since her mate passed away while she was incubating. That poor quail has been through a lot.

These are the girls from my second hen cage.

These girls are all sisters and live together. Their parents are the cinnamon and darth vader pair.
First girl, my golden pearl below was rejected by her parents when she hatched so I hand raised her and now she is the friendliest, tamest quail and loves cuddles. Not to mention she cries when I'm not around!

This is her sister who hatched with her. She's a cinnamon pearl (pretty sure). She and her other sister ended up being rejected by her parents at two and a half weeks old and her other sister died. She pulled through and we put the two sisters back together and now they are inseparable.

Their mother went broody again as soon as she rejected them and hatched out one chick. To make up for the small clutch, at least I've gotten some new mutations I wasn't expecting. This one is a white winged pied. I put her with her sisters and now I think the mother wants to go broody again!!!

 

[Serin]

Your birds are beautiful! What breed is the hen in the second photo, is that a darth vader? I would love one like that.

 

[Quailobsessed]

Your birds are beautiful! What breed is the hen in the second photo, is that a darth vader? I would love one like that.

The hen in the second photo is a red breasted and yes, it's a darth vader. I got them with the cinnamon hen off a guy who was selling all his quails to get larger parrots. Mutation quails are kind of rare in my area so I went for them and so far have bred three mutations I was also after from them. It was a good purchase.

 

[Quailobsessed]

Does anyone know if the blue face mutation is available in Australia? I really want blue faces but I don't know if you can get them here. Considering king quail are native to Australia, mutations aren't easy to find in my experience.

 

[Serin]

Does anyone know if the blue face mutation is available in Australia? I really want blue faces but I don't know if you can get them here. Considering king quail are native to Australia, mutations aren't easy to find in my experience.

Mutations are probably better represented in the Chinese king quails which have been kept in captivity longer, and which are the ancestors of the birds kept over here, I believe. I do not know if you also have the Chinese king quails also, or if you only have the Australian subspecies.

 

[Quailobsessed]

King quails are found in southeast asia and oceania in 10 different subspecies. The ones I own are probably the chinese subspecies since I have the same mutations. Mutations are less common in Australia and some you can't get here. I was just wondering whether anyone knows if the blue face is in Australia. My native remark was mostly for jokes sake.

 

[Quaicken108]

Pinga is so cute!

 

[Quaicken108]

Can’t wait to see Toge!

 

[blackoaktammy]

King quails are found in southeast asia and oceania in 10 different subspecies. The ones I own are probably the chinese subspecies since I have the same mutations. Mutations are less common in Australia and some you can't get here. I was just wondering whether anyone knows if the blue face is in Australia. My native remark was mostly for jokes sake.

I do know that you guys have the caramel mutation that isn't available in the states. I wish import laws weren't so strict. It would be nice to be able to share mutations across the globe.