Buying button quail eggs online

[Halloweengirl13]

If you were to hatch eggs it's possible to keep extra males together as long as no girls are in there with them, and a lot of people will colony breed them, I had three girls and a boy originally and they did fine.
What type of cage were you thinking would be best for you?

 

[broody rooster]

well at first i was thinking a large empty dog cage i had but id imagine the holes are to big i currently have that a bird cage and was considering getting a medium rabbit cage if i had to the funny thing is that i was at first going to get coturnix but looked around on here and saw that keeping coturnix indoors required a lot more maintenance to cut back on odorvs button quail plus id have to have 2 females due to a males aggressive breeding attempts vs keeping a pair of smaller quail that get along and wont make a noticeable odor

 

[Halloweengirl13]

We keep our coturnix in one of the black wire dog crates. I attached hardware cloth around the walls to keep the bedding in , I imagine it would be possible to cover the cage with it to accommodate button quail as well.
I can't seem to upload pictures of that right now.
I keep all my quail indoors, we have a sun room that's mostly used for storage and I keep my cage-able birds and brooders in there. My quail brooder is an aquarium in the living room. It's way less worrisome for me with them inside because as long as I keep the kitties out nothing will eat them if they happen to escape I just wait till the calm down then walk over and pick them up, Of course they are my pets and I only have 5 coturnix quail, and my large dog crate works for them. As there are only 5 they don't stink unless the bedding gets wet , which is not often I have a rabbit bottle that they drink out. I put in a shelf and a ramp and decorated it with juniper branches to make it easier for them to walk up. And they have a dog bowl for a dust bath. I love my button quail they are totally adorable and fun to watch but coturnix are more calm . I can reach in and pick one up no problem. My buttons are OK with me reaching in their cage but if I try to pick one up its like someone pulled the fire alarm and they scatter. A lot of the people on here generally have at least double digits in quail so it's not feasible for them to keep them inside it's totally doable with a small group tho with only three or four girls and a boy or just a couple of girls.

 

[Halloweengirl13]

 

[Halloweengirl13]

I forgot to ask, do you have a picture of the bird cage you have ?

 

[broody rooster]

i don't currently have any pictures of it at the moment unfortunately i can give the measurements if it helps tho and with coturnix i read they are calmer i just thought from what i read that they had a smell to them which was the main thing that turned me off from them especially since the time i was keeping a chicken with a broken bottom jaw in the house a few months ago .... i still smell it on occasion its not as bad as before but i had no clue that one chicken would have a smell like that

 

[broody rooster]

the dog cage is one of the black ones you have tho

 

[broody rooster]

id mainly be getting the quail as a companion type animal since im not able to keep chickens in city limits or any other type of live stock for that matter otherwise id have a silky inside but a single female or male coturnix inside can that be done or do they get lonely and if so what would the minimum cage size for two of the texas a&m hens ?

 

[Halloweengirl13]

When it comes down to it any animal will stink if you don't clean its area. I clean my bird houses about 1 time a week but it's more to make it look nice and give them fresh sand to bathe in rather than the smell .I use a dust pan when I use pine shavings just scoop it up and toss it in my garden or compost pile, or just bag it up and put it in the trash bin. I wrap a bag around my hand to pull out hay. I have a pair of coturnix that I keep in a small rabbit cage. They got beat up a while back so I separated them from the rest. The boys name is Chop Top. They have been getting along very well together for some weeks now. I think the cage is 2 ft long and 1 wide. 1 1/2 tall.

You can see Chop Top in the picture to give a size reference for the cage

 

[Halloweengirl13]

The cage I have my pair in is an OK size but if you can go bigger you can make it less boring for them and more interesting to look at for you. As long as you keep it dry smell shouldn't be an issue. The stinkiest birds are ducks, because they soak everything in their vicinity. my baby chickens inside get stinky if they spill their water in the bedding, my quail have never been an issue at all.the coturnox quail have the rabbit bottles and the buttons have basic bird gravity waterers.