Laying an Egg Killed My Button???

[chick4chicks]

I am so sorry you lost your little Button. They sure are cute and fun to watch.

 

[spookyevilone]

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That doesn't work with quail. Even murky ambient light is enough to set them off - if you can read a book by it, even if you have to squint, it's enough to trigger them. If you don't give them at least that much light, they won't eat or drink and they'll die very fast. Button quail don't have any body mass to speak of. They pretty much eat constantly. They also don't "nest" unless you've paired them up and happen to have a hen who goes broody - which is fairly rare. Normally they drop eggs wherever in the cage. Separating them won't do any good either, except to make the females AND males neurotic and noisy.

The only effective way to keep them from laying would be to keep them too cold to lay, and with buttons, you've got to be careful how you do that because unless they're very well acclimated to lower temps, they'll die of hypothermic shock.

Kelley, it sucks about your birdie

It's not your fault. They're just not very hardy little birds.

-Spooky