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Sara L said:
I'm not as familiar with the pastel colors that are fairly recently being brought over from Europe since I don't have any, but I've definitely drooled over the pictures on some of the eBay auctions. If only they weren't so pricey for the risk of not even hatching due to shipping stress. What other colors do you have? Are you able to tell if this pretty one is a boy or girl?

Button update as of this morning: Pretzel and the penguin marked button chick passed yesterday, don't know why. The yellow one I helped passed last night, found it this morning. Down to 3 babies, out of 29 eggs set. Have to look at my notes but I am pretty sure less than half of the eggs even started. At least all of them are colors I don't have already, but I was hoping for enough that I could pair up, will have to see what kind of random colors I can create by mixing them with the 5 which hatched from the silver/red breasted pair.
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I’m not sure on the gender yet. The breast is all white and it’s only about 4 weeks old and no obvious behaviour signs that I’ve noticed.
All my adult birds are pharaoh, except for this “pastel” and one gold male. A few of the pharaoh have small white markings.
But I have 4 yellow chicks with light striping in the latest hatch so we’ll see how they turn out. They were fathered by the golden roo.

Are buttons especially fragile chicks? They’re so dang small! I hope you get a good ratio of genders for the ones left so they can be paired easily.
 
RosieR said:
I’m not sure on the gender yet. The breast is all white and it’s only about 4 weeks old and no obvious behaviour signs that I’ve noticed.
All my adult birds are pharaoh, except for this “pastel” and one gold male. A few of the pharaoh have small white markings.
But I have 4 yellow chicks with light striping in the latest hatch so we’ll see how they turn out. They were fathered by the golden roo.

Are buttons especially fragile chicks? They’re so dang small! I hope you get a good ratio of genders for the ones left so they can be paired easily.
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They seem to be a little more fragile than the coturnix. And really have to be careful with water source.

If you have light yellow chicks with black stripes, should be a golden or Italian as adult. I think the gold is more dominant than the traditional color.
 
Sara L said:
They seem to be a little more fragile than the coturnix. And really have to be careful with water source.

If you have light yellow chicks with black stripes, should be a golden or Italian as adult. I think the gold is more dominant than the traditional color.
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That makes sense, I got 4 yellow chicks and 1 pharaoh.
 
My all yellow chick:
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