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Bah, no such thing! What, with pickling eggs, scrambled eggs, trading eggs, hatching and selling chicks, hatching and feeding to snakes, etc, there's no such thing as too many, lmao. And, what's wrong with having coturnix, chickens AND buttons? Hmm? Lol. By the way, I sent someone your web...

Why no buttons? Do we need to convince you to get more? Lol. Button Quail Heaven is who I "expect" to answer button questions, while you're my "go-to" for coturnix. I think I've got a "game plan" for my buttons. I like the ivory red breasted, the regular red breasted, the cinnamon red...

Dragging this back up again... Lol. My male is a cinnamon red breast, is he going to turn more of a blue on top, or is he maybe an ivory/silver cinnamon red breast?

Thank you. I'm not sure why, but this just doesn't want to sink into my thick skull, lol. I'm not 100% sure how old they are, but I believe that they're 5 weeks old. I bought them on January 3rd. Jan 3rd: Jan 7th:

Alright, I'm still trying to process everything. You said the last one was either ivory red breast or silver red breast. How can you tell red breast from a regular silver or ivory? I saw pics of some silvers, and this looks (in my totally untrained eyes) like a regular silver male, because it...

Oh, and the other one, the ivory or silver, it doesn't really have pinkish feathers on it (I hate saying "it"), but there is a place under the chin that is looking decidedly lighter than the rest, which I'm thinking (but hoping and praying not) might be a white bib. The underfeathers are the...

Thank you. When do buttons have their final feathering in? I guess I am getting too ahead of myself, I assumed that since they had real feathers that they were in final color, but they have noticable changes daily. These are my very first buttons, and my only other birds are budgies (first...

The last one, the one that I'm hoping to be a hen, has some patterning on the feathers, but it's very faint. It's mainly on the "shoulder" feathers. I'll have to see if I can get a good picture of one of the feathers, but I honestly doubt that I'll be able to.

I'm hoping to goodness that this is a hen, it doesn't seem to have a bib (at least not yet). The two big white ones are acting like males (being mean little brats), and the two littlest are apparantly males, so, well, I'm going to have to back out of the FFA fundraiser, because one bird isn't...

Here's the one that I was thinking was the red breasted silver, with the one that I thought was a red breasted hen: Hen? What the heck is he? Thanks.

Ok, the button that I was originally asking about, it is now starting to get red feathers near the vent... Are my birdies confused or what's going on here?!

Well, I'm fairly positive that this is a red breasted hen. Her feathers are finally starting to come in around the vent area (but just barely) and they're the same color as her top feathers. The top feathers look like a wild quail might (but maybe a tad darker than a wild quail here in PA). I...

Lol. They do look mangy at this stage. I know it's not a good picture, and the lighting sucks, but that was when I first brought them home and I didn't want to scare them too much. I guess I'll just have to wait and then post pictures again later when s/he's fully feathered. Hopefully it...

Above the vent is like a brownish, below is a yellowish. There aren't feathers in the vent area yet though, it's still all baby fuzz.

The breeder wasn't sure what color this one was. I don't remember what all breeder birds he had, but he did have silvers and whites. Anyways, anyone have any ideas? S/he looks slate grey, but each individual feather is mottled with whitish. I don't know anything about the button colors, these...