RooStar Chicken Gang
Songster
Button Quails.
So in the past had some button Quails, for those who don't know what that is, Google if you want. However many of you probably know what they are, they are small birds these button Quail. Had a bit of spare time so might aswell share incase someone wants to or does not want to know about my experiences with these birdies.
Houses: They seem to be hardy birds, they use to live in the bottom of a large aviary. What things can they live in as a nesting area? Our ones use to nest in ice cream containers turned up side down with doors cut into them, large hollow logs and wooden houses, something similar to a budgie nest box but with a larger enterance, with grass/straw as bedding.
Breeding: So despite some saying they don't breed by themselves very much, or that you to incubate eggs and all that, I never did that. They just breed on there own, one morning you'll just find a heap of babies walking around.
Now, if there's two males, these are normally grey in colour the females are brown, it's at this time or sometime after babies are born they may start to fight each other and pick on each other, so you'll need to seperate them, it's almost as if there can only be one male one female once babies are born and even then sometimes the male can attack the babies once they start to get bigger, the mother seems ok though.
Sometimes when you seperate the aggressive bird he may start to crow loudly so you can either get him another female if you want or a friend, we ended up making/getting seperate areas for different pairs and groups.
Back to the babies, they are very cute but also very small, you must be careful they do not fall into the water you have for them and tragically drown. There were other birds in the aviary we had who used deeper water to bathe in so we elevated that up on a pile of bricks that the baby quail could not reach and gave them a small dish cut very thinly from the bottom of an ice cream container and also bottom of pot plants, that part that holds water. They eat whatever there parents eat, scraps, bugs, bird seed ect.. as they grow you can observe to see how they interact with each other, they tend to breed anything from two to six chicks in a bunch but may be more I'm some cases.
They can actually fly, at the time I had these guys I lived in a suburban setting and a few, about two or three ended up flying up and over the fences to who knows where, strangely they sometimes fly vertically up wards, straight up.
So overall there a nice looking bird as an addition to a larger bird enclosure, interesting to watch, we had them with budgies and another type of large green parrot. They all got along with each other as in the different species.
(Button Quail image from Google)
So in the past had some button Quails, for those who don't know what that is, Google if you want. However many of you probably know what they are, they are small birds these button Quail. Had a bit of spare time so might aswell share incase someone wants to or does not want to know about my experiences with these birdies.
Houses: They seem to be hardy birds, they use to live in the bottom of a large aviary. What things can they live in as a nesting area? Our ones use to nest in ice cream containers turned up side down with doors cut into them, large hollow logs and wooden houses, something similar to a budgie nest box but with a larger enterance, with grass/straw as bedding.
Breeding: So despite some saying they don't breed by themselves very much, or that you to incubate eggs and all that, I never did that. They just breed on there own, one morning you'll just find a heap of babies walking around.
Now, if there's two males, these are normally grey in colour the females are brown, it's at this time or sometime after babies are born they may start to fight each other and pick on each other, so you'll need to seperate them, it's almost as if there can only be one male one female once babies are born and even then sometimes the male can attack the babies once they start to get bigger, the mother seems ok though.
Sometimes when you seperate the aggressive bird he may start to crow loudly so you can either get him another female if you want or a friend, we ended up making/getting seperate areas for different pairs and groups.
Back to the babies, they are very cute but also very small, you must be careful they do not fall into the water you have for them and tragically drown. There were other birds in the aviary we had who used deeper water to bathe in so we elevated that up on a pile of bricks that the baby quail could not reach and gave them a small dish cut very thinly from the bottom of an ice cream container and also bottom of pot plants, that part that holds water. They eat whatever there parents eat, scraps, bugs, bird seed ect.. as they grow you can observe to see how they interact with each other, they tend to breed anything from two to six chicks in a bunch but may be more I'm some cases.
They can actually fly, at the time I had these guys I lived in a suburban setting and a few, about two or three ended up flying up and over the fences to who knows where, strangely they sometimes fly vertically up wards, straight up.
So overall there a nice looking bird as an addition to a larger bird enclosure, interesting to watch, we had them with budgies and another type of large green parrot. They all got along with each other as in the different species.
(Button Quail image from Google)
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