broody buttons. Edit: and pics of my "black button"

[monarc23]

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button quail rarely breed true to color. You will get any color under the sun (as far as button quail colors go). They are so mixed it's kind of like when a stray cat has a litter, various colors of babies, one or two that look like mom or dad, but many others that look like neither parent. I assume you'll get a cinnamon or two.

ALso there is no black button quail, your male is probably a blue face.


also those "blacks' in that picture are normal wilds

Which are brown lol.

 

[citalk2much]

The color is going to depend on their pedigree

That picture is two small for me to see thou as far as I know there are no black button quail who owns these ?

 

[Mikhail]

my male is pure black and he has a sheen to his feathers and then around his butt is red feathers. He's definitely not brown. In the pictures, on the 4th and 5th row it looks like there's black ones. Thats as far as I've been able to find a color as close to Ethan (the black one). I'll try to get a picture of him. do you think he's rare or something? I adopted him from someone on freecycle who wanted to get rid of him. She said her aunt gave them to her, I think her aunt breeds them.

Awesome, I hope I get a mix of all different colors

 

[citalk2much]

Interesting I would like to see a picture. Even the biggest genetic breeders in the USA are unable to come up with pure black

 

[Mikhail]

Ok, I'm going to try and post a pic tonight. my dad has to do my camera's card first and then my bro has to put the pics on his computer and transfer them to mine.

 

[Akane]

Most likely a double factor blue face on "wild" aka blue breasted. That would give you the darkest color combination. I have a nearly black chick that is probably DF over red breasted. The only guranteed result from that is blue face chicks. A double factor on any hen is going to get you blue face. With a hen carrying blue face like slate or the chocolate-black looking ones you will get some double factors and some slightly lighter single factors. The male could be hiding any recessive gene so you could get slates (blue face +silver) and the female could be hiding recessives which could get you blue face cinnamons if they both carried it. With blue breasted being dominant if your male really is a df blue breasted then you should get about half the same or a slightly lighter color that's more brown. The rest is unknown except some would be less likely than others like the cinnamon or a golden pearl. The blue face gene can hide even the dominant genes though and make pearl, blue breasted, or red breasted chicks some shade of brown to nearly black so it's hard to rule them out completely.

 

[Mikhail]

Here's the pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/37531707@N07/ You have to be a member of Flickr to see them I think. i swear he's more black, i'll try taking more without the flash.


Note: the dirty cage is only because I can't clean it because of my female setting on eggs. It's never that dirty, I don't think I've cleaned it in like 4 days.

thanks for that info Akane.

That's reall interesting. I just looked up those colors (I'm not savvy on buttton colors) and they look really pretty.

 

[citalk2much]

Akane what is your source for the gentic and color information you use?

 

[shelleyd2008]

It does look like a blue face. I can see the blue sheen on his head and breast. That's not saying he's not dark, but he does look like a blue face to me.

 

[citalk2much]

Looks like a blue face to me also