Button Quail pics please!(i have some now!!..pics page 7)

[shelleyd2008]

So pretty! I was wondering if I would be able to keep my babies together, or if the A&M's would hurt the button, or try to breed with it. So they do well together? Since I only have the 3, I don't want any cry babies if I don't have to seperate them I won't.

 

[cjeanean]

so do they need insulation or can they just stay outside in a wire cage with some litter??? (I have a huge cage that just screams possibilities, but no ground space)

 

[monarc23]

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if it was me, id just watch them and make sure theres no fighting other than the normal *peck* get out of my way i wanna eat that not you!* I approve of a rude peck or two over food, but i deffinatly wouldnt approve of ruthless pecking to the point of booboos or death. I've had no problems with that though. When I first introduced Kitty to the group they didn't like her...so I took her out waited a few days and tried again an had no problems. When I mean they didnt like her a had like three coturnix hens chasingher around pecking at her ruthlessly, so I took her out she was fine just spooked. I thinkthey just knew she wasn't of their flock so t hey wanted her out ....a few days later they were cool with her and have been all along she's been in with them now for a month.

 

[monarc23]

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If you're considering it for THIS winter rest of 08 and begining of 09', I'd advise against it, im not sure of how the weather is there in your state...however I wouldn't put a button quail outside anymore this year in my area...in my personal experience, I wouldnt put a button quail outside in anything lower than 50 F for a few weeks. What i mean is if it's going to be lower than 50 degrees in the nights I personally wouldn't introduce button quails (or even coturnix quails or any other birds) outdoors in temps lower than that while trying to alcimate them to outdoor cooler weather. Pippin (the hen i brought back indoors) was outside for almost 2 months, Kitty the one that's still outside, she has been outside for over 3 months now, which was ofcourse still very warm and summery weather wheni first put them both out. I noticed that both my coturnix and button quails molted 2 times while being outdoors, they molted once, then just abouta week later molted again, the second molt seemed to coinside with the weather changing and what i guess is them winterizing to their new environment.

I have them ina large wire rabbit hutch at the back of the hutch is a wooden boxed area (solid wood floor and solid wood walls and roof that opens up) that they go into. I feed them in the indoor part but i've went up in the dead of night in below freezing temps already and all are comfortably huddled in the wire part together not even shivvering (puffed up but not shivvering) so that I know of the shelter doesn't seem to be too much of an interest to them yet...however if your'e going to put buttons outside i'd reccomend put a small flock out not just a pair...they need as much fellow body heat as they can get atleast that's what i felt comfortable doing that's why i have her in with the coturnix for extra warmth.

Then I have the whole hutch covered in a heavy duty tarp i'll try and find a picture to show ya

Oh and the hutch is about 3 ft off the ground which helps keep them in "warmer" air.

kay i got pictures now:

This was in the summer beforei put the quail in (i have nothing in the blue hanging cages yet that's going to be the summer breeding cages for the coturnix):

This is with all the quail in it after I started using the tarp still in the summer:

an indoor view, you can see the hole into the boxed part:

 

[shelleyd2008]

The cage of cortunix they are in is mixed though? I don't think I would want to have button/A&M crosses!! They seem to get along pretty good. When they were a few days old, I thought I was gonna have to seperate them, the A&M's were picking on the button. They get along pretty well now though.

 

[monarc23]

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so far that i know of it's never been done (buttons breeding with coturnix) but me and someone else on here are interested in trying it (for genetic reasons of color and temperment). But I kind of think the odds are slim if it happening because im on a group of people over seas that raise coturnix and button quail and most have them caged together as well and i've never heard any of them mention hybrids.

tho it'd be cool!

someone also mentioned on here before in this subject that if it is geneticaly possible itthey may have to be artificially inseminated for it to work since birds are so different in size.

edited for typo