Button quail question fr Newbie

[little-beep]

Aww, thanks for sharing, @WoDia -- love the conures too - they look like characters.

Did Kiki incubate all her 7 chicks?

 

[WoDia]

Aww, thanks for sharing, @WoDia -- love the conures too - they look like characters.

Did Kiki incubate all her 7 chicks?

Kiki did incubate them! I was so proud of her. She raised them as well…. until I had to remove the boys of course. I still have all of her little ones

 

[little-beep]

Aww that's adorable, @WoDia

Can I ask how kiki died? -- When these little fellows get older (2-3 yrs is apparently their life span), how do they die? - Do they just keel over? .. I'm already dreading it.

I'm a live-in caregiver for seniors and I literally travel all over Ontario going from one senior to the next. My current senior's daughter had an enormous drunken party here at the house the other night -- this led to a discussion from me regarding RESPECT, but the daughter is just as stubborn as her 81 yr old father and she refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing, so now I am looking for another job -- hopefully immediately. HOWEVER, this means I am going to have to move my 2 'kid quail' (my boy & his new girlfriend whom he's becoming closer to) - This should be ok altho stressful for them -- BUT, I also have eggs in the incubator which will hatch in the next 9 days. I will have to run the incubator in the car (provided I find a job to go to soon) on the way to my next location... or.. run a heat lamp in a tiny brooder if the chicks hatch before I go................. could be tricky... hopefully there won't be any fatalities.

 

[WoDia]

When mine begin to near the end of life, I’ve noticed they will slow down a lot. That may not be the case for all button parents, but mine have slowed down and wanted to spend time in quiet corners away from the group. And, I find them passed away during one of my morning wake-ups. Kiki (my current little Kiki’s mommy) passed away in my sweater on a trip to our other home up North. I was devastated!! She didn’t pass quietly…. it was like she had a seizure and then she was gone. Maybe a little heart attack. I cried and cried.… and cried! Toffee, my last House Bobwhite, passed the same way. In his elder age, he had given me signs though…. a few mini-type seizures during the months leading up to his passing. (He lived to be 7). We can only hope they’ll pass quietly in their sleep one night.
As far as traveling with new hatchlings…. I’ve done it myself. I travelled to our other place with them wrapped inside a soft blanket (Kiki and her 7 babies), and they travelled well. You can place a heat pack beneath the box on the seat. The blankets in the box with keep the chicks far enough above the pack itself. Be sure to have the brooder ready to plug in when you arrive. I’ve travelled with eggs too. What I did was use a small box lined with some heat packs on the bottom and wrapped the eggs in tissues in a blanket. A little thermometer helps to ensure the eggs don’t overheat. We spend extended periods of time at the lake home, so I’ve had no choice at times. I have an incubator ready to plug in when I arrive. We travel on a whim and normally don’t plan the trips in advance a majority of the time. I don’t like having to do that, but I always do whatever I need to do in order to ensure chick and egg success. The whole point of what I’m saying is that you can do this with good results. We button parents will go to great lengths for our teeny ones! Glad to know that your two little sweeties are getting along!

 

[WoDia]

An added note to your earlier post— typically buttons have a lifespan (in my experience only) of 2 1/2-3 years. Currently, my oldest buttons are 3 years and 2 months. Kiki’s mate Kloud has begun to slow down a little. He sits around resting a lot more, so I think his time is not very far off. Sometimes, our bird babies can totally outlive their life expectancy. Two of my House Bobs lived to be 7 and 8.

 

[FloorCandy]

Aww that's adorable, @WoDia

Can I ask how kiki died? -- When these little fellows get older (2-3 yrs is apparently their life span), how do they die? - Do they just keel over? .. I'm already dreading it.

I'm a live-in caregiver for seniors and I literally travel all over Ontario going from one senior to the next. My current senior's daughter had an enormous drunken party here at the house the other night -- this led to a discussion from me regarding RESPECT, but the daughter is just as stubborn as her 81 yr old father and she refuses to acknowledge any wrongdoing, so now I am looking for another job -- hopefully immediately. HOWEVER, this means I am going to have to move my 2 'kid quail' (my boy & his new girlfriend whom he's becoming closer to) - This should be ok altho stressful for them -- BUT, I also have eggs in the incubator which will hatch in the next 9 days. I will have to run the incubator in the car (provided I find a job to go to soon) on the way to my next location... or.. run a heat lamp in a tiny brooder if the chicks hatch before I go................. could be tricky... hopefully there won't be any fatalities.

I would try to avoid having to move the incubator if possible, I’m not sure how fast the job turnover is, but if you can just hang in there for the 9 days, it’s far easier and safer to move chicks. I sell chicks all the time, I put little packets of rice in with them, made by folding rice into a paper towel, and I microwave them and put them in a cardboard box with the chicks and bedding. It’s worked great.

 

[little-beep]

When mine begin to near the end of life, I’ve noticed they will slow down a lot. That may not be the case for all button parents, but mine have slowed down and wanted to spend time in quiet corners away from the group. And, I find them passed away during one of my morning wake-ups. Kiki (my current little Kiki’s mommy) passed away in my sweater on a trip to our other home up North. I was devastated!! She didn’t pass quietly…. it was like she had a seizure and then she was gone. Maybe a little heart attack. I cried and cried.… and cried! Toffee, my last House Bobwhite, passed the same way. In his elder age, he had given me signs though…. a few mini-type seizures during the months leading up to his passing. (He lived to be 7). We can only hope they’ll pass quietly in their sleep one night.
As far as traveling with new hatchlings…. I’ve done it myself. I travelled to our other place with them wrapped inside a soft blanket (Kiki and her 7 babies), and they travelled well. You can place a heat pack beneath the box on the seat. The blankets in the box with keep the chicks far enough above the pack itself. Be sure to have the brooder ready to plug in when you arrive. I’ve travelled with eggs too. What I did was use a small box lined with some heat packs on the bottom and wrapped the eggs in tissues in a blanket. A little thermometer helps to ensure the eggs don’t overheat. We spend extended periods of time at the lake home, so I’ve had no choice at times. I have an incubator ready to plug in when I arrive. We travel on a whim and normally don’t plan the trips in advance a majority of the time. I don’t like having to do that, but I always do whatever I need to do in order to ensure chick and egg success. The whole point of what I’m saying is that you can do this with good results. We button parents will go to great lengths for our teeny ones! Glad to know that your two little sweeties are getting along!

Aww it would be soooo hard to lose your little babies. I find I grieve more over my pets than over people sometimes! .. I'm sorry it was so heartbreaking.. it likely will be the same for me when the time comes... whaaaaaaah!

 

[WoDia]

Aww it would be soooo hard to lose your little babies. I find I grieve more over my pets than over people sometimes! .. I'm sorry it was so heartbreaking.. it likely will be the same for me when the time comes... whaaaaaaah!

We put so much time into the love and care of our feather babies. They become part of the family. The difference between them and people is that they never judge, never say hurtful things, they’re great listeners, and they show their own kind of unconditional love. People, on the other hand….

 

[WoDia]

We put so much time into the love and care of our feather babies. They become part of the family. The difference between them and people is that they never judge, never say hurtful things, they’re great listeners, and they show their own kind of unconditional love. People, on the other hand….

 

[WoDia]

I‘ve used the little screw-in cups attached to some pvc that is fed through the wall to a 5 gallon bucket housed in an outer room of my quail building.The only drawback to that has been my bobwhites kicking up bedding into the cups.Then I have to clean them out! Yours is a quick an simple method. Informative.