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    Button Chick colour: please advice and some other questions. Thanks!

    Quote: How can we tell it is a blue breasted hen? I cant see any blue in her and how can we tell the difference between a blue breasted, red breasted and pearl? As for the red breasted male, is this just the wild red breasted? It doesnt have dark feathers on its back - just lighter brown...
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    Button Chick colour: please advice and some other questions. Thanks!

    Oh wow you are so lovely! thanks for letting me know. I have so many pics of my buttons of various colours ~ love them So yellow + red lines chick will become a cinnamon adult. My first chick of that colour. I have 5white teens now from Brownie & Conan. Thanks so much
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    Button Chick colour: please advice and some other questions. Thanks!

    have pictures of button chick below: what is this colour and what will it look like when it is an adult Also have other pics which need advice: What is she? I am still trying to differentiate if its a pearl? or red breasted female? And what is he? a normal wild? My darling pair Brownie &...
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    Incubating button quail eggs

    Hi there what do you mean by the water bottle technique? New to this and currently incubating using my DIY incubator.... Would love to know more. Thanks!!
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    PLEASE HELP - button quail chick chirping in egg

    aww- thanks for welcome! I have been reading as much as i can here - all very overwhelming at the moment. And very educational for me. First time having to deal with these sort of things! It has been awesome. At the moment between our 2hens which laid, we have 13 button quail chicks...
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    PLEASE HELP - button quail chick chirping in egg

    Quote: sorry i dont mean to sound rude, but more ignorant and would like to know what do you mean by "Helping quail of any species out is folly! Button quail bust outs are supper duper folly." why is it a folly? Please let me know so i may understand better. cheers
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    PLEASE HELP - button quail chick chirping in egg

    Thank you! Well, i couldnt let the poor thing die. Mama abandoned all her 7eggs, i couldnt do the same... So thought i should update what i did after I turned off the computer. After stressing and worrying and reading & posting on BYC, I took the 7eggs and attempted to candle them, there...
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    PLEASE HELP - button quail chick chirping in egg

    oops sorry i posted at the wrong place? (newbie) jsut posted at the quail section - thank you.
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    PLEASE HELP - button quail chick chirping in egg

    Hello all, i am at my wits end as our button quail mama decided to leave her other 7eggs cos she has got 5chicks with her (she left the nest). I have put them in a quick DIY "incubator". Last night i heard chirping from 1egg. It has been 24hrs now, i dare not listen to see if it is still...
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    PLEASE HELP - button quail chick chirping in egg

    Hello all, i am at my wits end as our button quail mama decided to leave her other 7eggs cos she has got 5chicks with her (she left the nest). I have put them in a quick DIY "incubator". Last night i heard chirping from 1egg. It has been 24hrs now, i dare not listen to see if it is still...
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