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Squee! Button quail hatchling!
Well, I acquired a young button quail pair while I was living in Arizona. I'm breeding them as a food source for falconry. That and I just like them.
So we moved back to Texas and the female started laying for me. The first batch seemed to have been infertile, but I just put that off to the move. This second time around we lost power for a bit so the eggs weren't at the proper temperature for over 24 hours. I gave the female a break to let her rest, but I kept the second batch of eggs in the incubator, just to see.
The first egg was laid on 9-1-09 and eggs take any where from 16-20 days to hatch. So when 9-18-09 came and went I was kinda bummed. I thought the power being out ruined the eggs. But being lazy, I left them in the incubator.
So this morning I was getting ready for a phone meeting and I kept hearing this peeping. At first I thought it was just my degu talking to me (she does that a lot) but it just kept going on and on. It finally dawned on me to check the incubator! And low and behold, the egg that was laid on 9-1-09 hatched! I quickly got the little fella set up and he's just scooting around the baby tank. So now I have hope for the other eggs!
And without further ado, here's the little guy. I'll also post updates as they come.
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Re: Squee! Button quail hatchling!
awww congrats on the little guy. button quail are so cute.
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Re: Squee! Button quail hatchling!
Aww, I LOVE Button Quail!!
What sort of birds are you feeding? I work with a Harris' I think adult button quail would be a bit too small.
Congrats!!
"I don't want to make money, I just want to be wonderful." ~Marilyn Monroe
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Re: Squee! Button quail hatchling!
These will eventually be for an American Kestrel. I'm undecided on a male or female at the moment. I flew a female last year, so trying to decide if I want something different this year or not.
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Re: Squee! Button quail hatchling!
I think you tried to direct me to a falconry forum once but the link never worked. Did you ever get a link that worked because I would love to learn more.
Button quail are very cute! I will eventually breed those for my ferrets, but that is a long way off. Congrats on the baby quail!
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Re: Squee! Button quail hatchling!
Here is a link for an Apprentice forum.
And here is one for a general falconry forum.
And this site is called the Modern Apprentice. It's a great place for beginner information.
If ya need anything else, feel free to send me a PM!
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Re: Squee! Button quail hatchling!
lol nice, I had a nice trio of buttons for a while till my trio turned to 25 lol now they are living a nice life on my uncles farm.
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Re: Squee! Button quail hatchling!
Thanks a lot! I'll definitely be reading through those!
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