Welcome to QuailMadness, Thankyou for taking your time to come and visit us here.

We keep and breed quails.

the quails we have are the chinese painted button quails, these are also known as the button quail and the blue coloured males are known as the king quail.

These are the smallest type of quails and when fully grown you can fit 2 or 3 quails in your hand.

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We keep 35 females and 7 males in our breeding flocks and we have 6 different set ups indoors for them but some people keep them outdoors.

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Our 6 setups we have 4 different breeding colours and our 1st group are in 2 setups and they are 2 groups of yellow with black speck females and males.

The 2nd flock we have are in 2 setups and they are 2 groups of sliver greys wth a little bit of white females and males.

The 3rd flock we have are 1 group of the cinnimon coloured females and males.

Our 4th and last flock is our biggest group in the biggest setup and they are the dark with small bits of light in them females and males.

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Males need to live with 5 females so we keep 5 females to every 1 male so that is 35 females and 7 males that we keep.

Males can live together happily aslong as they have 5 females each.

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Most of our chinese painted button girls lay their egg all year roiund due to being indoor at room temp 24 7 and having light for 14hrs per day.

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Our last day to post eggs is December  10th and the first day to post again will be January 5th, this is so that our egg parcels dont get lost in the christmas post.

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We hatch our own chiocks every 2-3wks from the end of january through till the end or november as we like to have a break over christmas and new year.

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Now about the eggs, New yonger females tend to laying their first eggs from 10wks old but some wint lay till 20wks of age.

Their first 10-15 egg that they lay wont be fertile as they need time to be fertilised by the males.

Females will lay eggs with or without a male but they do need that male to make the eggs fertile.

To hatch egg a you will need an incubator as these type of quails dont sit on and hatch their own chicks.

quails if kept outside during the winter months of october through till march wont lat eggs, if you would likes through those months then they would need warm room temp 24 7 and light for 14 hrs per day.

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Our chicks once they have hatched are ready to go to new homes from 1wk old but they will be unsexed till they are at least 4wks old, they will need a heatlamp till 4wks old and then live at room temp till they are 12wks old they they can live outside if you are going to keep them outside.

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Chicks need to eat chick crumb till 8wks old then they eat layers mash and quail mix, the layers mash and mix they can have added to their crumb form 6wks old so that they can get used to the changed of food over 2wks.

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For chicks water they can use a jam or coffee jar lid as they can have it to deep a they will fall in and drown, when they are 3weeks old they can use a container from a takeaway curry sauce or something like that or you can buy proper quail drinkers from amazon or ebay.

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Food bowl for chicks you can use a takeaway plastic container for them or you can buy a proper quail feeder from amazon or ebay.

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We can help you get started with a few things as we sell chick crumb, sawdust and hay please see our shop section on prices thankyou.

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