S&S Poultry

01/03/2024

Candling eggs today 🥰 Our serama eggs are the first to show signs of development!

Any tips on candling copper maran eggs? I can’t seem to see inside them since they’re so dark 🤣 Hoping for some fluffy headed colored layers 💕

01/03/2024

It’s official, March is here! 😁 I’m so excited for longer days and warmer weather ☕️🍯🥬🥖

I hope you enjoy the memes as much as I do 🤣

29/02/2024

Newest set of hatching eggs 🥰 We refreshed 3 of our incubators with Button Quail, Coturnix Quail, Seramas, and a colored mix of chickens for fun! The chicken eggs are a cross between a Buff Laced Polish roo with Americaunas and a Copper Maran 💕

Still waiting on our silkies to lay 🤣 once our last button eggs hatch I’ll be looking to try hatching eggs from a new breed or maybe new egg colors. I’d love to trade hatching eggs with someone! Near Livermore 😊

27/02/2024

Hi again! 😊 I wanted to show the size difference between button and coturnix quail. These chicks are both tuxedo colored and only 5 days apart in age. Button quail are so tiny 🥹 We have 6 chicks so far and more on the way! 🥰 Let us know if you’d like to be on our waitlist before we’re out! We’re already out of coturnix chicks, so we have a couple dozen hatching eggs waiting to go into the incubator. Thank you so much to everyone supporting us along the way 💕

25/02/2024

Got some cute pictures of the coturnix babies today 💕 and their little serama roommate 🥰 It’s been so fun watching these little babies grow up. I always have said seramas are about the size of quail and this experiment/educational hatch has helped me prove it! I love how small they are 🥹

The last coturnix chicks we had went to their forever home today! We will be refreshing the incubator with new coturnix hatching eggs in the next few days so we will have more next month! Stay tuned to our page for more details 😊

23/02/2024

We will be going through our waitlist to start filling orders for our buttons and coturnix quail chicks! 💕 We are having buttons hatch daily and I have another incubator with about 3 dozen eggs set to hatch around March 6th. Serama eggs are going in soon too 🥰 We’ve been getting 2 eggs a day from our new frizzle serama roo, our black hen, and our white mottled serama hen.

For fun we are also going to try hatching Polish /Americauna (with puffy cheeks) / Copper Maran chicks! We have gorgeous colored layer eggs and we kept a beautiful golden laced roo. I am so excited to see if I get some adorable fluffy headed and colored egg layers 💕

Reminder we are open to trades!! Anything like chicken supplies, indoor or outdoor cages, right now we also will trade for eating eggs! Send us a message 😊

22/02/2024

Another button quail today 💕 and my laying ladies are telling me spring is coming 🥰🪺 These chocolate eggs are gorgeous 😍

22/02/2024

Teaching the button quail how to eat is one of the cutest things 🥰

21/02/2024

Our button quail are hatching!! One is completely out now and another one is pipped 🥰

18/02/2024

Just a reminder if you get more chicks now, they’ll probably take over your house until spring 🤣 For some of us chicken lovers that’s amazing lol but not ideal for everyone. Happy hatching season! Anyone else already on their hatching/raising chicks adventure? 🐣

17/02/2024

5 little coturnix babies this morning 🥰 Stay tuned to our page! We have a broody 5 month old serama adopting these little ones and it is oh so cute! 💕 These ones hatched on day 18 and the rest will be hatching over the next 3 to 4 days 😊

16/02/2024

My Valentines gift came in today!!! 💕 My husband surprised me with a new incubator and 30 new button quail hatching eggs 🥰 They can hatch anywhere between 15 - 22 days. I’m so excited to see these little babies 🪺🐣

15/02/2024

Our handsome roo and all the rest of our pretty ladies went to their forever home today 💕 It makes me so happy to be a part of your chicken adventures 🥰

15/02/2024

Before our button quail hatch, I wanted to share some care tips!

Since we keep our button quail as indoor pets, (even as adults) They cannot survive the Maine winter outdoors on their own. They MUST be kept inside. So we will ask you to show proof of a set up before bringing them home 😊

Button quail are one of the most adorable exotic indoor pets. They are extremely small and they can fly! They are very social and do very well in pairs or groups of 1 male to several females. Since these little birds can fly, they are not beginner birds.

About King Quails:
Although commonly referred to as "Button quail" in captivity the true name of these little birds is King quail. The true Button quail isn't even a quail- they are currently placed with the Charadriiformes, which are shorebirds. Other common names for King Quail include, Blue-breasted Quail, Asian Blue Quail, or Chinese Painted Quail. They are the smallest true quail, and in the wild are native to parts of Asia, Australia, and China. There are 10 different subspecies. The species gets it's "blue" and "painted" names due to the wild/typical type coloring of the male- black and white facial markings, a blue chest, red underparts, and a brown back. The wild type female is camouflaged brown above, with a beige underside, barred with brown. Her face and throat are marked with orangeish beige.

Size: 4-5 inches long and weigh around 0.99-1.4 ounces fully grown.
Lifespan: 3-6 years “average”. Can live up to 15 years. Age depends very heavily on genetics and how well they are cared for.

Caging/Enclosures:
Like all quail they are very active and need a decent amount of space. The cage should be fairly long to allow for lots of back and forth walking. An enclosure measuring 36"L x 24"W (or 6 square ft) is the humane minimum for a single pair. The cage should be increased by 4 square ft per added pair. (Do keep in mind, bigger is always better.)

Enrichment: Climbing opportunities and things to hide under/inside of as mentioned above are enjoyed and count as forms of enrichment. Otherwise seeds or mealworms can be sprinkled in the sandbox or a dish can be filled with leaves and have seeds scattered in for the birds to forage. Sprinkling seed on a large rough textured piece of bark also provides the opportunity for birds to pick around. In the case of enclosures with a sand/soil flooring with plants you can simply sprinkle the treats around the entire enclosure and even scatter feed the birds this way by including their base diet in the mix.

Feeding / Watering: They can be fed Hen layer as a base, however Gamebird starter is more appropriate especially if you want eggs as they need higher protein than chickens for example. This should be supplemented with a finch seed mix as well as a wide variety of greens/veggies, sprouted seeds, and mealworms or unseasoned mashed boiled/scrambled egg. Feeding only seed can result in overweight birds and diet deficiencies. Birds should have access to fresh water at all times. A normal chick waterer can be used for adult birds. For veggies they can be minced so they can easily eat a large variety. Make sure the veggies you feed are bird safe. Veggies/seeds and sprouted seeds can be offered daily and should not be fed less often than once a week at least.

Read the full article by Johanna Lee: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/button-quail-your-guide-to-ethical-care.77178/

13/02/2024

All of them have found their new homes 💕

We have a breeding group of blue silkies looking for a new coop! Skip the wait of getting chicks and start hatching your own blue bearded beauties 💕 2 blue/splash hens, 1 white hen, and 1 blue/chocolate splash rooster 😊 Hoping they all can go together since they are bonded, so I will give a better deal if you take them all!

13/02/2024

Since we’ve had SO much interest we started some waiting lists!! Below we listed the breeds we will have this year:

🌟 Seramas
🌟 Silkies
🌟 Button Quail
🌟 Coturnix Quail

If you’d like to be put on a waitlist for any of these breeds send us a message! We will need to know what breed/s and how many you’re looking for 😊 We are still waiting on our first round of eggs to hatch! Check out our page to see more educational posts about these adorable little birds 💕

12/02/2024

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11/02/2024

I’m so excited!!! We have coturnix quail and a few silkie and serama eggs are due to hatch in a few days!! Following these will be some button quail eggs hatching 💕

We will be hatching more once these little babies are moved out of the incubator. Stay tuned to our page for more details! We will be doing live videos of the chicks hatching 🥰

09/02/2024

It's that time!
LET’S SUPPORT EACH OTHER ☺️ Let’s choose a few farm pages to spotlight! Today I chose

Double J Ranch & Farm

Shoestring Farm

Mainly Flower Hens

Back Brook Farm

Mayetta Farms

Chicken Land Creations

Cripple Creek Chickens

Wicked Quail and Pork Homestead

Pickett Farm and the Old Soul Homesteader

Z&N's Rabbitry and Poultry

I hope you will follow and support them. ❤️ Comment your favorite farm below so I can follow them too! I love supporting local farms 🥰

This was an idea from another amazing page that tagged us, thank you 🥰

09/02/2024

I am obsessed with the color of these eggs 😍 I’ve learned that this gorgeous teal blue color comes from a celadon gene! Now time to figure out which hen out of all 4 is laying this beautiful egg 🤣 I can’t wait to see the babies that hatch from these ladies 🥰

08/02/2024

As we are learning how to tell gender in our button quail, we found we have 4 hens instead of 3! Found this beautiful new teal colored egg in the quail hotel today 🪺🩵 They’re just so tiny 🥹 I can’t wait to see the babies hatch!! I’ll be hosting live videos when the eggs start hatching! 💕

07/02/2024

House is clean, dinner is done, chickens are put to bed, it’s been a good day 🥰 Time to snuggle up on the couch and read one of my new books. Currently starting the Lord of the Rings 😁

What book, or book series do you recommend? I’m starting a list so I know what to book to get once I’m done with this one!

07/02/2024

05/02/2024

I’m having some fun making chicken memes this morning 🤣

04/02/2024

Getting the second incubator running for the button quail eggs! 💕 They have been laying between 2 and 3 eggs daily so far. They lay the cutest little eggs 🥹

03/02/2024

Wow! These are definitely the smallest eggs I’ve seen 🤣 they’re even smaller than the fairy eggs I get from my chickens! I’m so excited to see how small the babies are 🥰🥹

The eggs go in order from left to right - button quail egg, coturnix quail egg, serama egg, and silkie egg 💕

02/02/2024

What a week! We ended up getting some button quail today 💕 They are already laying! We will be putting eggs in the incubator once we have at least a full dozen 🥰 Stay tuned for updates!