Is there any way to get just a couple Button eggs?

[goodheart101]

Just let me know where to send the eggs and when. I seem to have egg laying fools. More eggs than I know what to do with. I even tried cutting their lights. But still seem to lay eggs.

 

[arherp]

Akane, how do you clean your tank setup? That is something I would like to try

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[shelleyd2008]

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Cutting the lights didn't work on mine last year either, I'm not going to bother this year. About the only way to make them quit is to let them go broody. But they seem to start laying just a few days after being broody if they don't have chicks, so that kind of stinks

 

[spotsplus]

I'll send you some eggs for free if you want. I just cleaned two dozen out of my cages and just threw them away. Shipping is about $6 via Priority. I've had excellent hatch rates here. Shipping has had mostly very good results.

I have finches, coturnix, button and bobwhite. Bobs are the stinkies. I use pine shavings at about 2" deep and the buttons have almost no smell.

T

ps. I have shipped juveniles and adult quail by USPS Express. It cost about $30. I have shipped as few as 1 and had as few as 2 shipped to me with them arriving in fine shape (and one getting "lost" enroute and arriving fine after 5 days!).

 

[Rainsong]

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Well, lemme corner my step-dad and see if he'd be willing to make me a 'bator- I've only got $40 squirreled away at the moment, and I'm waiting to see if we're going to need that or not.

... I'm so thrilled at the offer, thank you sooo much, I just wish I could jump right on it now o.o

 

[Rainsong]

Here I am at my parent's place for the day. My son did NOT want to get his bath, so we got over here later then I was hoping for... and I find my step-dad had left for the week about an hour earlier. I'm so dissapointed.

 

[Akane]

Remove the items and spray with a hose or in the shower if necessary, scoop out the dirty bedding (a metal feed scoop works well), wipe the tank with vinegar, leave to dry, and refill. I have a small collapsible dog crate from when my akita was a puppy that I throw quail in while cleaning pens or use to haul young chickens from the brooder to the coop. The 90g takes a little time but it doesn't need it more than every couple weeks and it's far less work than when I had guinea pig cages. Guinea pigs are poop machines and they drink and pee a ton so even large cages (mine 10-30sq ft cages) will become a complete mess within a week. Sure buttons require more work than some things but there are also far worse. I don't find them that difficult at all and once dry their poop has no smell so as long as you can keep things dry it's not a problem. Same with a chicken coop. Some people never remove droppings from their chicken coop. They just stir it and add more bedding so it stays dry. So long as bird droppings dry they don't really smell. You are having trouble keeping smell down a layer of pine pellet under the shavings helps absorb things. That's what I had to do for my coturnix. They were making far more mess than the buttons but I had them in about the same space per bird that I keep a button since I hatched 200 all at once for meat.

 

[Rainsong]

Alright... much as I don't want to

I think I'll just have to wait for now. I'll just save up for a good incubator and go from there, I think, unless I can find some locally, or someone willing to ship hatched quail- next month! Thank you all for the help though, you've all be wonderful... I feel like I've wasted your time though. I'm sorry about that.

 

[citalk2much]

The shipping of quail can be hard in Nov. As it is cold thou if there is a warm front it can be done

 

[Rainsong]

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Exactly why I figured I'd have to wait. We aren't known for truely bad winters here, but the last few years have been kind of rough, and we ARE known for having an ice-storm or two, so I'll probably end up waiting till early next year- Feb, April, or later.