Are these all male blue scaled ?

[adriano]

 

[the outdoorsman44]

when i had a female, it was smaller than the male @18 months.
to me in the 3rd picture it looks like a female and the last picture the one to the left.
i am not that sure. yet
and how old are yours?

 

[adriano]

They are roughly 2 months old.

 

[the outdoorsman44]

oh, mine are 18 months and you could see a difference between the 2

 

[the outdoorsman44]

alright some better info:
the females have darker gray throat streaks.
shorter buffier crest
darker ear spots

the males have a buffier throat
longer white spots
lighter ear spots

 

[Ntsees]

alright some better info:
the females have darker gray throat streaks.
shorter buffier crest
darker ear spots

the males have a buffier throat
longer white spots
lighter ear spots

Are you able to put up some pictures for comparison? When I first read this thread, I became puzzled as I googled scaled quail pictures. Wow are they tough to sex. I wonder what's tougher, sexing scaled quail or mountain quail?

 

[the outdoorsman44]

Are you able to put up some pictures for comparison? When I first read this thread, I became puzzled as I googled scaled quail pictures. Wow are they tough to sex. I wonder what's tougher, sexing scaled quail or mountain quail?

good point. i never really thought of that. i will look for a pic in a minute

 

[the outdoorsman44]

i looked forever

but i could not find the website i was on earlier that day. it is quite hard for me too to tell without a reference pic