Button Quail

[citalk2much]

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Pairs is how they should be keep , please research to top breeder like Garrie Landry. Some people do keep them in other ways it is not what is best for the birds you can keep groups of pairs together.

 

[chickenwhisperer123]

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Pairs is how they should be keep , please research to top breeder like Garrie Landry. Some people do keep them in other ways it is not what is best for the birds you can keep groups of pairs together.

Im not trying to argue, but I am just wondering. What makes Pairs so much better?

I keep all of mine together with absolutely no problems.

 

[mustanger]

Could it be a matter of coop space? How big is the area per bird that you have? Do you have hideout places for them so that the victim can escape?

David

 

[citalk2much]

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Pairs is how they should be keep , please research to top breeder like Garrie Landry. Some people do keep them in other ways it is not what is best for the birds you can keep groups of pairs together.

Im not trying to argue, but I am just wondering. What makes Pairs so much better?

I keep all of mine together with absolutely no problems.

In the wild buttons live in pairs and have their own territory and are very territorial. I these group settings the male will breed all the females but he will have his bonded mate and they tend to pick on the others, you may have them all together with no problems but I promise it will not be like that forever and when the tide changes it will be ugly for the odd quail out. you can in a big enough space keep more then one pair, and I do keep pens of all males and all females. I have seen the damage buttons can do to each other not a nice thing at all. I have to give the proper info to people that ask the questions they can do with it as they will with it, I have studied these birds and taken the time to learn from the top breeder in the US, I have made the mistakes too, I had a group pen ran like a charm for over a year then one got a bug up its butt and all hades broke lose I had scalps torn off over night and buttons in pain and suffering because I chose not to take what the experts had to say, it was my poor little buttons that paid the price.

 

[NewHopePoultry]

I'm doing research which is why I am asking guestions,lol.
I've read so many different ways to care for them, and for me its easier to ask and see how other people raise them.
What size cage does a pair need?
Is it only 1 pair per cage?

 

[citalk2much]

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I keep single pairs in 90qt starlite totes and I have two pairs in my aviary which is 4x3, acorrding to Garrie's book which I highly reccomand you and anyone doing quail gets," a 20 to 30 gallon long aquarium is suitable home for two or three pair of buttons, He states that each pair should have at least 18-20 inches of square floor space to be properly accommodated."
Here is the link to order the book http://www.zebrafinch.com/zebrafinch/NewButtonquail/Quailbook.html

 

[quailbrain]

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There is also another book available on amazon barnes and nobles even ebay called "A closer look at Button Quail" It's 275 pages of history of thse quail, foods they can eat, diseases, egg issues, etc. These little quail have a bad wrap for scalping only because they are a monogamous quail in nature. Changing that by putting them in an unnatural situation for them is the really problem with scalping. Word of mouth has been very hard on many birds including these quail. For years they have been called button quail when infact they are not. ButtonQuail is from a crane family of birds and not a quail at all. In 2009 when a actual buttonquail was photographed in the wild the first wrocesters buttonquail ever photographed many people state side were asking me to buy them and disappointed they didn't look like the photograph. What is commonly called button quail in the United states is actually Chinese Blue Breasted quail to the rest of the world, bird watchers, and Scientific world.

I have had these quail for 20 years and had my own issues with accepting word of mouth for their care. I'm really glad there are people out there who are changing that.

 

[wing it]

how long do they take to hatch?

 

[citalk2much]

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16-18 days most the time on day 16 though I have had them go to 21 when the bator was acting up