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

[PurpleChicken]

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How old is the roo and what is he? I could take him but he wouldn't like it very much.
Then again I'd love to throw a roo in with my 14 hens and get some fertile eggs.

I have 20 fryer roos and was gonna keep a few for a while. My hens are getting cranky
for some roo love.

 

[redhen]

he's very handsome...your girls would LOVE him!...no eating him though!...

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[redhen]

Yay!..

...Thanks to PurpleChicken!, i finallly have some buttons!.

....Thanks SO much PC!!..honestly!..we all love them..the kids think they are so cute...well..except one..he wants to eat them..(PP would get along very well with him!....)..LOL..

....hes been looking up quail recipes!...

... ......Wendy..

here they are in their temporary house...they are still a bit small to move into the cage.

And i love the beautiful colors they have!

Here is my favorite one!.. I just love the little bugger!

 

[hypnofrogstevie]

Congrats on the new buttons redhen. Are you going to eat the eggs or hatch em?

 

[redhen]

i want to try to hatch at least one batch..(if i have males and females..

..)..and we will eat the rest...thanks..

..i'm very happy!

edited to add:..i meant we will eat the eggs..NOT the birds..lol..

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I got my button eggs from marie_martin as well.

Cool I only had one chick hatch from the eggies she sent me (not her or her eggies fault, it was my darn incubators fault). "Gordon" is the chick from her

I had only one hatch out of mine as well. I had 2 that died in the shell, one after pipping the shell, the other after pipping the membrane. There were a couple more that were quitters. I'm not sure what I did wrong. I will be getting some more though. This little one will be all alone once its A&M buddies get too big!

 

[WriterofWords]

I am so jealous, I've never had any hatch or even form! I want Buttons!!!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Here is my lonely little button with its A&M buddies, at about 2-3 days old. They are now about 2 weeks old, and the A&M's are getting huge!! They are starting to feather, and are definitely getting the uglies!!

 

[redhen]

So cute shelly!....that green one in back corner looks to be a very rare color!..

...nice pic, thanks, Wendy

 

[monarc23]

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that is a totally adorable picture!

I raised a button quail with a big batch of Jumbo and normal sized coturnix quails for almost 11 weeks with no probs I just the other day removed the button quail only because I put her in with a male button quail hoping for some winter incubating.

OH and not to mention i introduced another hen (button) into the coturnix flock and she is still in with them as she's in there to proove that button quail can survive outside in cold climates as long as they are kept out of drafts....she's doing wonderfully and it's gotten way below freezing here.


Hold on let me finda pic or two

^ That's Pippin (the hen i put in with a male BQ just the other day she was raised with all these coturnixs *jumbos and normals* since day one

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^ the arrows are pointing to Pippin and Kitty (the other bq hen that im keeping outdoors with the coturnix)

Pippin

and ijust like this one....that's pippin when she was younger in my hand....which i honestly believe the only reason she felt comfortable enough to eat out of my hand is because the coturnix's were...my other buttonquail Kitty also comes to me more often because of the coturnix's

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