Bad News Buttons “Chinese Painted Button Quail”

As much as I love my button quail they sure are hard to manage sometimes.
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[@thomasborg6341]

If your hoping for breeding success, i suggest keeping males seperate and keeping a maximum of two females with the male

[@aaronm2765]

Once your hen starts setting, separate the male in a different cage. Once chicks feather out a Lil, he can go back in. And buttons do better in pairs only. Biggest cages possible..

[@canaryco-op]

I like the Button Quails 🎉🎉❤

[@thedouglaspodcast]

3:54 whaaaat?! 😭💔 thanks for the heads up! I have several button that “fright flight” _(idk if that’s the official name.. that’s just what I call it lolol)_ and when I pick them up and they “bite” me, no part of me ever thought they could injure something 😩 lmaooo. I guess… button babies are friggen MICROSCOPIC tho 😓 would take next to nothing to injure.. and also, I feel like my button are *sooo* dramatic. They “bite” and then make their happy chirps and cuddle up in my hand immediately after 💀 maybe when they’re _actually_ being aggressive they bite harder. I hear broodiness is bred out of chickens.. and I think it might’ve possibly been bred outta my Coturnix hens cause they’ll lay on their eggs for a split second and then abandon them immediately 😅 and they’re 1000000% fertilized lmaooo. I took their first 10 eggs, stuck em in the incubator, 9 are fertile 🥲 buttons seem to have a lot of their instincts still tho.. so wonder if when they lay, they’ll be broody. Only have one single button exhibiting male behavior. The ‘offering a treat’ to the others is by far the cutest thing I’ve ever seen 😭 hahaha I do have one issue tho……. I’ve only ever seen him mount my Coturnix hen 🥲🥲🥲🥲 and she just lays down lolol I tell him daily, “she’s a different breed!!!!” as I grab him. But of course, he doesn’t listen/understand lmaooo

[@birdnerd]

Thanks for sharing. Yeah buttons are really fun to have. But they can become aggressive with each other at times or if little chicks fall out of the nest they will likely peck at them due to the small movements and their natural behavior is to eat any small that wiggles. So have to be careful there.

[@cozycows]

You CAN keep multiple pairs/trios together in a big enclosure like this but I wouldn’t recommend it. Looks like they’re well cared for though, so that’s good. :)

[@birdnerd]

Thanks for the tip

[@onefowl1]

After the 5 hatched you were down to about 10 or 12 eggs. The last shot of the hens off nest and you said no more hatched after 3 or more days there are around 15 eggs. Makes me think one of the moms is still laying adding to nest or you put the video clips in wrong order?

[@indyreno2933]

Chungchis are small quail-like gamebirds native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, they are known for their black-and-white markings on their chins, greyish-blue plumage, red bellies, and orange legs, they constitute the genus Excalfactoria with three extant species: the Asiatic Chungchi (Excalfactoria chinensis), the African Chungchi (Excalfactoria adansonii), and the Oceanian Chungchi (Excalfactoria lepida), despite being also known as painted quails, dwarf quails, fairy quails, or blue quails, chungchis are not quails at all, they are in fact more closely related to snowcocks than they are to true quails, like snowcocks (genus Tetraogallus), chungchis (genus Excalfactoria) belong to the subtribe Tetraogallina of the tribe Tetraogallini in the subfamily Pavoninae within the family Gallidae inside the superfamily Galloidea, the asiatic chungchi has three subspecies: the Common Chungchi (Excalfactoria chinensis chinensis), the Southeast Asian Island Chungchi (Excalfactoria chinensis lineata), and the Nicobar Chungchi (Excalfactoria chinensis trinkutensis), the african chungchi has three subspecies: the West African Chungchi (Excalfactoria adansonii adansonii), the Central African Chungchi (Excalfactoria adansonii congica), and the South African Chungchi (Excalfactoria adansonii zambesiensis), and the oceanian chungchi has three subspecies: the New Guinea Chungchi (Excalfactoria lepida lepida), the North Australian Chungchi (Excalfactoria lepida colletti), and the East Australian Chungchi (Excalfactoria lepida victoriae).

[@Orwellian-Purple-Grapes-1984]

These are real quails, stop spreading misinformation, please. They are the smallest quails of the Old World quails.

[@martingentles1291]

Would of been better sticking eggs in an incubator

[@thomasborg6341]

Eggs in an incubator are harder to care for, and babies need attention and need to be taught. Also in an incubator they wont hacth their own eggs when the chicks grow.