I give up! (AKA: anyone need some button boys?)

[shelleyd2008]

Pretty far, I'm in southern KY

But to answer your first question, a pair of button boys could live together just fine. The group of 5 (1-year-olds) is all males and they get along better than the ones that have females in the pens!

 

[BorderKelpie]

That would be a bit of a long drive.
Darn it, I've always wanted buttons. If you figure out the shipping thing, let me know, please. I promise not to eat them. (They'd have names in no time, knowing me and my DD) lol

 

[shelleyd2008]

Anyone have any ideas on which males I should keep if I can find someone to take some of them? I know I want to keep the blueface [df] male, I'd like some more like him

And I'll probably keep the cinnamon pearl male. Heck, I'd like to keep a silver too

I need more girls

My hens are:
1-golden pearl
1-cinnamon pearl
2-silver pearl

My males are:
wild (1)
Silver (1)
silver redbreast (1)
blueface [df] (1)
cinnamon blueface (5)
DV (2)
Redbreast (1)
GP (2)
Cinnamon pearl (1)
Cinnamon redbreast (1)

 

[xxSonja]

Man i wish i lived in the US. I would take all your excess boys, i need fresh blood in flock. And you get a bigger variety of colour than can get here

no fair.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I'm sorry, If my friend from Sydney ever comes for a holiday like he keeps saying he is going to, I'll have him sneak some eggs back to you

 

[Denninmi]

I've got the same problem. On first hatch, I ended up with 2 girls and 5 boys. Second hatch, I thought, well, I'm sure I'll do better. WRONG. 7 boys, no girls now that they're big enough to tell. At least they all get along without any females to fight over.

What's up with that? It seems to defy the laws of probability, or at least kind of bend them to the extreme.

Is there something about the male egg or embryo that makes it more durable, more able to withstand improper incubation procedures and practices?

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

No, its a proven genetic trate. Same as in chickens. Some hens are just programed to push out mostly Males and some mostly Females. They are normally culled or not bred. Well, the ones that throw Males anyway.

If you both keep breeding these same hens, you will just keep getting more and more males.

Good luck.

Shelley I sent info to DD to lead her friends to this thread. Hope it helps.


edited: I better say that is a proven in chickens and quail and chickens follow suite closely in the Genetic studies being done now.

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

Please excuse my ignorance, because I only have chickens:

Why can't you just let them fly free? Wouldn't they survive ok?

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Little tiny Button quail are basically domesticated house pets that like to lay eggs. Think Small finches kept in bird cages as pets.

They would be most anythings dinner in a minute.

 

[Kwartel]

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They are too domestic to survive long in the wild. They don't have the resistance to disease that wild birds have or the benefits from being raised in the wild. They don't do very well in the cold either and would probably freeze if they lived long enough to see the winter.