Button quail or courtinx?

[Hb32]

I am looking to get into quail a little bit and trying to decide wether to get buttons or courtinx. I don’t really care about meat or eggs and I am looking for a somewhat easy to keep small breed that can be very affectionate.

 

[The Birb King]

Coturnix are normally more friendly, but buttons can also become very tame if you handle them a lot as chicks. Buttons are much more active and skittish, and they also tend to pair up. I do not have coturnix but I heard you need around 5 hens per male, and they are not nearly as active as buttons are.

 

[Hb32]

Thanks, I think I’ll go with buttons I think they will be funny to watch and they could be easier to keep.

 

[The Birb King]

Thanks, I think I’ll go with buttons I think they will be funny to watch and they could be easier to keep.

Good choice. They are super fun to have

 

[nao57]

Wait. Before you do...

If you are using them to farm and produce meat and eggs, coturnix jumbo quayle are the fastest production. You can look up tables and it will show you that button quayle and/or California quayle take much longer to grow up and to produce eggs and meat in comparison.

This could be a big factor for you going forward. And even if you keep them as pets, it doesn't mean you can't also farm them. And with fowl/birds what tends to happen is that most people keep the hens and then farm out the males, keeping ratios of 1 male per 5 hens. This ratio is more used from chickens and ducks especially but people use a similar ratio for other fowl like quayle also. A 1 to 1 pairing of m/f isn't necessary.

Anyway, Coturnix are much more efficient.

Also,... when I was doing studies on agriculture and fowl production a few years ago (I ended up going with ducks at the time, but I almost did quayle). I couldn't but notice when you read the Bible and the Israelites are rescued by the miracle of the quayle... you can't help but notice that its very logical that the Lord would have used quayle because quayle are the most efficient, fastest food production bird that humans could use to grow food. Interesting right?

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Either way you choose, have fun and be happy with it. We wish you happiness.

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Edited in later; additional note; Please note that very young quayle are very fragile.

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Under similar reasoning its weird that our country is obsessed with beef and cows when actually sheep are much more efficient and better for food production, and faster in production with also having a delicious taste. Yet people are obsessed with cows. It takes much longer to produce meat through cows than with sheep.

 

[Hb32]

Wait. Before you do...

If you are using them to farm and produce meat and eggs, coturnix jumbo quayle are the fastest production. You can look up tables and it will show you that button quayle and/or California quayle take much longer to grow up and to produce eggs and meat in comparison.

This could be a big factor for you going forward. And even if you keep them as pets, it doesn't mean you can't also farm them. And with fowl/birds what tends to happen is that most people keep the hens and then farm out the males, keeping ratios of 1 male per 5 hens. This ratio is more used from chickens and ducks especially but people use a similar ratio for other fowl like quayle also. A 1 to 1 pairing of m/f isn't necessary.

Anyway, Coturnix are much more efficient.

Also,... when I was doing studies on agriculture and fowl production a few years ago (I ended up going with ducks at the time, but I almost did quayle). I couldn't but notice when you read the Bible and the Israelites are rescued by the miracle of the quayle... you can't help but notice that its very logical that the Lord would have used quayle because quayle are the most efficient, fastest food production bird that humans could use to grow food. Interesting right?

...

Either way you choose, have fun and be happy with it. We wish you happiness.

...

Edited in later; additional note; Please note that very young quayle are very fragile.

...

Under similar reasoning its weird that our country is obsessed with beef and cows when actually sheep are much more efficient and better for food production, and faster in production with also having a delicious taste. Yet people are obsessed with cows. It takes much longer to produce meat through cows than with sheep.

That’s a good point but I don’t really need or want them for eggs or meat just as pets. My chickens produce enough eggs. Thank you