What do you do with Button Quail?

[paddock36]

My 9 year old son bought some with his own money but what do you do with them? Are they just for pets or do people eat them?

 

[shelleyd2008]

You could eat them if you wanted to, but there would be more time in cleaning them than there would be to eating them! There is nothing to them! Most people just keep them for 'pets', though they are more of a looking-at type pet, rather than a playing-with pet.

 

[citalk2much]

Ditto

 

[feather leg farms]

I bought some Buttons and really want some more. I'll tell you now they are really cute and fun to play with!!!!!!!

 

[quailbrain]

Buttons are great pets if you give them the right enviroment. They are good clean up crew for spilt seed in finch/parakeets cages. They are great just to watch. They are even used in butterfly gardens to clean up bad bugs.

 

[Cherlyn]

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Can coturnix quail stay in an aviary with parakeets as well?

~Cherlyn

 

[citalk2much]

I don't see why not
You may want to think about the smell

 

[Chicksdigit]

Absolutely, I had a Budgie Aviary with 60 pair of budgies and I had Buttons on the floor and they kept the ants and dropped seed kind of cleaned up never perfectly but were cute running around in a line formation the seed shells or husks kept the floor clean it was like a litter for the quail and all I did was sweep it out. The thing about buttons is in that situation where you are going in and out you need to watch your hair My daughter had long hair ahd some times the birds would get the hairs she dropped wrapped around their feet and they could lose a toe or even a foot if you don't watch, I had to take the hairs off their legs several times and if I had not watched closely they would have lost toes.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I had that happen with a coturnix hen. The quail stayed inside for quite a while, probably 4 weeks, so they could fly out of the brooder if the got the idea to. Apparently she had flown out of the brooder and got a hair wrapped around her foot. She lost one toe completely and most of another one. The toes were already black when I noticed it.