QUAIL - CHINESE PAINTED
(ALSO KNOWN AS BUTTON QUAIL IN THE USA)
Approximate size- 4½ - 5 inches
Incubation length - 16 days
Main characteristics:-
* Easy to sex (except the whites and pieds)
* Males have a white face mask - females don't have a face mask
* Can be aggressive - new birds cannot be added if the colony is already established
* Best kept in trios or colonies
* Relatively quiet birds
* White and pied mutations need to be sexed visually and by body shape and actions
* Chicks are extremely small and it takes a while to get used to rearing them
Colours available (click on the thumbnail below to view photographs of the many colour mutations of the Chinese Painted Quail)
