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Quote: Gee, I wonder??? I think you know! You sent me a very nice mix. I couldn't be more pleased with the various shades and colors. No two are exactly the same ... well, not now, anyway, I HAD two that were "identical twins" until tragedy struck. I don't know if you caught my comment...

Finally, a bad and blurry photo a few of the older button quail, hatched roughly 5 weeks ago, around July 5/July 6:

Here are the Coturnix. They are older than the buttons, I think they are about 12/13 days old now. They hatched around July 30/31. I think I have a really cool color mix here. My favorite is the soft white/yellow with the dark edges to the feathers.

These are my 7 surviving buttons from the hatch last week. They'll a week old either today or tomorrow. I am especially happy with the silvery/grayish looking one on the left. It basically had the tuxedo type pattern, darker head and back, light underneath. Except, instead of being really...

Quote: Yes, I noticed that the taxonomists are at it again. They love to rearrange the classifications. I think it's a job security thing with those folks! During the course of the roughly 20 years I worked as a florist, the common chrysanthemum first was called Chrysanthemum indicum. Then...

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy : Ugh! That stinks! Are you incuabting anymore eggs out? How do you like your coturnix quail? I want some! The coturnix really look like a bigger version of the buttons, which makes sense because they are (or at least were) both in the same genus, which is Coturnix. I...

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy : Quote: How many Buttons do you have Dennimi? I have 3 males and only 2 females, My grown pair and then I hatched out 3 babies and 2 were males and there is one lil' male, Buddy, that is kind of friendly so he will be my house pet! The other two can be another breeding...

Well, I'm raising them purely for pets. They are tiny little things, no one in their right mind would try to eat one, there would be nothing there. They are, however, really amusing to watch. I think taking care of any living thing, animal or plant, enriches your soul on more than one level.