Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Button Quail Chicks

I took some individual shots of each chick to try to determine their coloring and also to try to tell each chick apart as some look very similar. I tried to get a face shot and a body shot but they are slippery little suckers. I still have no clue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Chick 1 (I think a wild/normal type)

Chick 2

Chick 3 (maybe cinnamon?)

Chick 4

Chick 5

Chick 6

Chick 7

Chick 8

Chick 9

Chick 10













Lorelei's first egg

The day after I brought my birds home Lorelei laid her first egg.

She continued to lay an egg a day until she had eleven eggs at which time she started to lay on them to incubate them.

After sixteen days of incubation I saw this

Out of eleven eggs we got ten healthy chicks!




My new button quail

My husband and I went to the Butterfly Rainforest in Gainesville for our anniversary in June. While we were there I fell in love with these tiny birds running around on the ground. The birds are called button quail and I knew right away I wanted one. After doing some research I found out they do best in mated pairs. For my birthday in July I got a pair of button quail I found in an ad on Craigslist. I named them Luke and Lorelei. From what the seller told me the male is a red breasted and the female is a tuxedo pied