What breed of quail are these? Link provided, Price okay?

[taraann81]

I am looking for button quail! Just because they are so darn cute!
http://london.kijiji.ca/c-ViewAd?Ad...850067,177846076,166911566,177847991,17784565

What are these? And if they are what I am looking for, my aunt will have to pick them up as she is much closer to them than me( but she knows nothing about birds)! I need to tell her how to sex them. Also what is a good male female ratio( and for that matter what do you call male/female quail...hens and roos?)

 

[chickenlover54]

button quail.
males will have like a patch under their chin that is white with a black stripe, you'll get a pic soon

 

[chickenlover54]

in the pic of them do you see the 5th bird from the left(brownish) that is the male, look on its neck, it has the white patch with black stripe

 

[chickenlover54]

sorry I keep posting! lol but the pic of the single bird is also a male

 

[taraann81]

Will 8 females and 1 male give me okay fertility?

Thanks for the replies guys!!!

 

[chickenlover54]

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no, button quail need a 1 to 3 ratio and to be on the safe side it should even be 1 to 2 or even 50/50

 

[taraann81]

REALLY? Thats alot of males? Can they all be kept in the same smallish enclosure if I get say, ( females and 3 males? Or do the breeding trios need seperate enclosures?

 

[chickenlover54]

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they can be together

 

[chickenlover54]

Each hen will give you an egg a day(as a general rule) you could get 5 females and 3 males or 6 females and 3 males to ensure good fertility.

 

[taraann81]

Thanks. I told my aunt to try to pick 3 males and 9 females. I would love to see couturnix quail eggs and button quail eggs compared side by side in a picture.