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My coturnix love to be handled, so no problems there. The buttons are really flighty, so I just work quickly and firmly and yes, occasionally one squips out of my hands. That's why I'd like to have linked pens, so it's enclosed. I'd like to see other people's pens, too.

Wire is the best for keeping the eggs clean, and their feet, but I have a separate aquarium with sand for weekly dust-baths... I'd like a "habitrail" type set up where they have one pen for living, and a tunnel to go to the enclosed sand-pit. I'm sure the sand etc is better on their feet, but...

I have them in cages that are roughly 30" wide, 10" deep, and 12" high. 12 Buttons in one cage, 6-7 coturnix babies in the others, though once they're big enough I'm going to built a 4x4' pen/aviary for each of the breeds. The buttons bonk their heads on the cages - they need to be higher...