Schiamachi Button Quail
A variety of the Button Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Schiamachi Button Quail
Despite the name everyone uses, the 'button quail' of the aviary is really the King or Chinese Painted Quail — the smallest of all gamebirds, a thumb-sized charmer in slate-blue and chestnut (the cock) or soft rufous (the hen). Ground-dwelling, gentle and easy, it comes in many colour mutations and lays tiny, pretty eggs. A delightful little aviary bird.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 16 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- South-east Asia / Australasia
- Scientific name
- Excalfactoria chinensis