🥰CUTEST PICS HERE! Help, button quail expert needed. 🥰

[Emmadoingchickenlife]

Hi, help needed! Can any button quail experts give me their opinions on the button quail I have just hatched. I have researched their colours, however I am not experienced enough to be sure of colours. Can anyone assist me? Their are 2 pics of each bird and please send good vibes to my favourite new baby that is unfortunately having to wear toe splints. Xxxx

 

[Nabiki]

I'm afraid the answer is the same as for the coturnix. Without knowing what the parents looked like, it's too early to tell. Several colour morphs will look the same as chicks.

 

[VDes]

Hard to tell for sure as chicks can present as different variations while young. The lighting on the striped pattern chicks can also make interpretating their morphs difficult. I do possibly see some normals, golden pearls, red breasteds, a splash, and the last one is a silver of some sort.

Also, what is going on with that first chick? That thing seems huge for a button with no feathers. Maybe it's just the perspective but It sure made me do a doubletake. It seems like a odd cinnamon, but can't be for sure.

Edit: Just saw in another post it's a coturnix! Haha, knew something was up! Don't know much about their genetics yet since I only keep whites, standards and Italians.

 

[Pipsnchicks]

These are coturnix! It looks like you've got quite a few varieties in there. Here's where you can see a bit more about genetics: https://ourpipsnchicks.wixsite.com/poultry/quail-genetics

Going from L to R, T to B:
-First guy will have Fawn (Italian, most likely) and blue, silver, or Andalusian.
-The next three pictures all look like some sort of Pharaoh base, possibly with Fee (Falb Fee), with the last guy having some sort of black modifier. Maybe Merle, maybe sparkly, it's way too young to tell yet.
-The little guy in your hand is likely a Tuxedo! Which is het. Dotted White. Based on what, it's a little too early to tell.
-The little dark one on the ground, first in the row, that's a Rosetta. Possibly Tibetan, but EB based. It could have more in it though.
-Likely same with the next three, all look EB based, and the two with lighter/white patches likely have White Winged Pied or Dotted White. White faces could indicate White Bib or White Beard.
-The next three pics look like typical pharaoh.
-The next guy in your hand looks like some sort of Fee, possibly just Pharaoh based (Falb Fee), possibly Pansy fee or something similar
-The two white ones in your hand next look like homozygous Dotted White, also called English White.
-And the last little two guys look to be silver/blue/Andalusian on Pharaoh again!

 

[Nabiki]

These are coturnix! It looks like you've got quite a few varieties in there. Here's where you can see a bit more about genetics: https://ourpipsnchicks.wixsite.com/poultry/quail-genetics

Going from L to R, T to B:
-First guy will have Fawn (Italian, most likely) and blue, silver, or Andalusian.
-The next three pictures all look like some sort of Pharaoh base, possibly with Fee (Falb Fee), with the last guy having some sort of black modifier. Maybe Merle, maybe sparkly, it's way too young to tell yet.
-The little guy in your hand is likely a Tuxedo! Which is het. Dotted White. Based on what, it's a little too early to tell.
-The little dark one on the ground, first in the row, that's a Rosetta. Possibly Tibetan, but EB based. It could have more in it though.
-Likely same with the next three, all look EB based, and the two with lighter/white patches likely have White Winged Pied or Dotted White. White faces could indicate White Bib or White Beard.
-The next three pics look like typical pharaoh.
-The next guy in your hand looks like some sort of Fee, possibly just Pharaoh based (Falb Fee), possibly Pansy fee or something similar
-The two white ones in your hand next look like homozygous Dotted White, also called English White.
-And the last little two guys look to be silver/blue/Andalusian on Pharaoh again!

I would take a closer look at the size on these. The first picture especially shows just how tiny the chick is. Button quail do look like miniature coturnix when they're in their first couple of weeks!

 

[Pipsnchicks]

I would take a closer look at the size on these. The first picture especially shows just how tiny the chick is. Button quail do look like miniature coturnix when they're in their first couple of weeks!

I raise both The colors on these birds as well as the size in the person's hand compared to the feathering growth is coturnix, though you're right-some of them are pretty small! I'd double check that the the three Falb Fees are getting enough food and heat.

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Hi, help needed! Can any button quail experts give me their opinions on the button quail I have just hatched. I have researched their colours, however I am not experienced enough to be sure of colours. Can anyone assist me? There are 2 pics of each bird and please send good vibes to my favourite new baby that is unfortunately having to wear toe splints. Xxxx

They are so tiny and cute!!!

 

[Emmadoingchickenlife]

Nabiki, you are correct the first bird is coturnix as I accidentally posted her. However all the rest are buttons. Unfortunately, I lost my poorly button that I tried so hard for, she was born with cord attached to egg, even though she was last to be born. She struggled so hard to get out of egg. Then we had all the leg issues which I splinted. I used electrolytes/ booster etc but could just never get her to eat even yolk. Happy to report that all thr others seem to be thriving now! They look so different already! Love to hear all your opinions! First pic is buttons and other pics Coturnix. Never fear about the pink dot on yellow baby's head, it is a bird safe ID marker, well chalk type thing. I needed it when I was worried they were all going to get sick when I lost that 1 little one. Also, note how small my blonde Coturnix is compared to other 2. However She/He is the first and last at food every time and the noisiest. I know blondes are often smaller however I was surprised how much. I wondered if it meant anything for sexing them. As you can see the Coturnix are already entirely different shapes, blonde is leaner and more torpedo shape where the others have some girth to them. Blondie (Nix) is also the loudest by a country mile! Quail and chickens BEST PETS EVER!

 

[Emmadoingchickenlife]

As you can see, my 3 Coturnix now must be 10 or 15 times the size of our buttons and they eat and eat! Although, the buttons can sure put it away for something so tiny as well! Watching them grow and change is just amazing and we are so attached already! At what age would you say they can be sexed? And I would be interested to know at what point you start separating? Xx

 

[Farmgirl283420]

Awww they are so cute!