Practical Uses for Button Quail?

[Rozzie]

jack & mommy's duckies :

So other then food for pets there are no other uses for them. My husband asked me this the other day.....so I'd love to give him an answer. Pet food and bird cage cleaners??? I've got 5 breeding pairs....someone needs to give me more ideas or these guys might have to go.

Hubby's rule...all animals that I hatch or bring home must be able to be eaten.

You can eat the eggs. Tell him you are going to eat the eggs.

 

[Rozzie]

jack & mommy's duckies :

So other then food for pets there are no other uses for them. My husband asked me this the other day.....so I'd love to give him an answer. Pet food and bird cage cleaners??? I've got 5 breeding pairs....someone needs to give me more ideas or these guys might have to go.

Hubby's rule...all animals that I hatch or bring home must be able to be eaten.

I'll just leave the part about hubby making rules for a wife alone here. It's not the proper venue.

That said, I hope he doesn't like to watch tv too much. Kind of hard to eat the tv.

(In other words, does he do anything simply because he enjoys it? Anything that costs ANY amount of money? If so, why shouldn't you be able to do the same?)

A couple of pair of button quail hardly eat anything. Now, if you have 30 like I do, then they go through a bit more food. But a pair or two? No trouble and almost no expense.​

 

[JJMR794]

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CAREFUL WITH THIS.... MANY PLACES IN THIS WORLD THERE ARE NO MARKETS FOR THEM.

 

[GothChick]

Do you have any pet stores that sell birds? We have a local pet shoppe that sell really boring button quails and when I told them I was hatching ones that actually had different colors and looks they said they would buy some from me. They sell them for $35 dollars a piece and said they would buy them from me for $10 each! I was more then happy with that.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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That's a really good idea. I never thought of that! I have a ball python and for a rat it takes 21-23 days for the pregnancy. Then the rats aren't even weaned until they are 4-5 weeks. To get a rat to the size of a button it would take about 6 months or more. So using them as reptile food would be a practical use. I'm not about the nutritional differences though.

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

It's one thing to use the ones that don't make it anyway.


I have a better idea. Lop the head off the snake...

X2

 

[BobwhiteQuailLover]

LOOOOOOOOVE your avatar!!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Thanks - That's Lorna, one of our colts. She is the sweetest little thing, my brother is right beside her ( I edited him out ), she is soooo cute! We have another filly named Pixie. We put halters on them today and started halter training them. Pixie gave in and my dad had her walking around the pen, Lorna Doone on the other hand threw little hissy fits!

 

[BobwhiteQuailLover]

Do you train them yourself?

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Yes.
Moxley and Dixie and R.I.P. Cocoa all had colts last April.
Moxley ( Lorna Doone's Mother ) had a horse colt ( Boy ) named Jeb Stewart, Dixie also had a horse colt his name was Allan Breck Stewart, Breck for short and then R.I.P. Cocoa ( My horse ) also had a tiny little dinky horse colt named Little Bit. We traded Jeb for a Bay Mare last year, then we halter trained Breck and Little Bit this Summer and we even rode them! LOL

LOL
I'll try and find some pics I can show ya ...

 

[awesomefowl]

Hey, Mrs. Puffy, you should make a BYC page for your button quail breeding! I really would like to see some photos of them!