Getting Little Button Quail in the breeding mood

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Jayburd
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Thanks!!
mr.fox wrote: The quail are just fed their softfood from small, flat dishes at the front of the flight and generally most mornings I just scatter a small handful of finch seed on the bare sand for them.
So they just get the softfood, or is there another bowl for seed? Mine do make a lot of mess in their seed bowl (typical BQ platelet manoeuvre), despite it being in the deep kitty litter trays.
mr.fox wrote:I add to the leaf litter throughout the year, cleaning out the worst of it as I go
So you just leave it in there, and scrape up the dirtier areas with a dustpan or something? I imagine it would be very good for insect production!
The softfood sounds very similar to my own (couscous based) recipe, I might try combining mine, yours and VR1s all together and see what happens!

Thanks for all the advice :D
Julian

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When we see good numbers out here its always triggered by a rain event. Rain=greenery=livefood. Think about when you want them to fire up Jayburd,i heard your`e heading interstate for a bit. you might be leaving chicks for someone else to care for. :thumbup:
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green seed .
awesome breeding seasons since the floods laid fresh soil along the river and seeding grasses have been plentiful > this year no seeding grasses and very little thistle and as such a very ordinary breeding season .
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Jayburd
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Thanks DB and deb :)
DB - ;-) yep!
I'll keep the seeding grass coming as long as I can :)
Julian

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