Can button quail be kept in trios?

[UncleFrank]

Lol , good luck with the ratio. Lots of breeders refer to the buttons as the "mice" of the quail family, not just for their size, but for the amount of breeding and laying they do! If you keep them indoors of course you will have eggs daily and they will pile up! Too bad you dont have a lil pet snake to feed the eggs too...he would be a very happy camper. Now if you want the lil hens too go broody and set on her eggs, I would suggest having a single pair in a cage by themselves and some cozy hiding spots for the female. I have seen people keep buttons in single pairs and be successful with broody hens. You probably won't see that with your trio or colony arrangement.
Good luck and be sure to give those lil hens a good source of calcium

 

[Bryam]

Well, I do have a silver pair and they are alone, unfortunately the female just lays eggs and show 0 interest in them. I have put 3 hiding places, yet she chooses to run around laying her eggs everywhere, after she laid 10 eggs and showed no sign of going broody, I gave up. I still leave her eggs in the cage and I let them pile up, but she doesn't seem the least bit interested. She does run for meal worms though!:/

 

[UncleFrank]

I have a silver hen myself. She's my lil favorite and like yours, loves the meal worms! Of course the boys usually grab the meal worms and run to the top of the shelf and start calling the females with them. Those lil boys will do anything to get those girls.