Button Quail-Day 16-Hatching! Photos!

[marie_martin]

Most males will develope a white "smile" line under the chin. Not all but most. There are many helpful websites including this one.

http://www.buttonquailusa.com/links.html

Hope it helps. If I can help in any way, just PM me.

Marie

 

[WriterofWords]

I'm so happy for you! I'm just fated not to have Button I guess, out my 24 none hatched and I guess they were mishandled because none formed when we opened them. I will enjoy them vicariously through everyone else's photos!
K

 

[mainchick]

your so lucky! I love my button quails!! I hatched out a bunch and gave a pair to one of my 4H kids. She took 'em home and they settled right in and soon they were laying eggs. Get this, their female actually incubated and hatched out her own clutch!!! I haven't had a female hatch out her own babies yet!!
they are probably the cutest little chicks ever!!

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Give it a little while longer... I wound up with 3 males with the blue/red - the traditional colors - but it took a little while for them to develop their colors. The white "bib" is pretty obvious around 4-5 weeks old. But, if you don't get the ones you really want, there's nothing that says you can't hatch any more!

 

[chickenlisa]

Oh Thanks! Now that I look at them with educated eyes, I can see little white smile bibs under a couple of them...and an orangey color on one of the grayish ones if I look at it from the back. That one has the white bib under his chin. So I may be setting up my 3 level chinchilla pen with the apartments separated soon...for 3 little groups of Buttons...not sure yet.
Thanks again
Lisa

 

[chickenlisa]

What are all the colors that button quail can be? I've got 2 dark brownish ones (1 male, 1 female?), 3 very light gray/lavendar ones(1 male, 2 females?), and 6 medium gray (w/ other colors emerging slowly-also 2 males, 4 females I think.) Does anyone know the official colors for them and what mine will be if they are the colors I listed at 3 weeks old?
Lisa

 

[Mrs MIA]

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http://ncws.com/mcdonald/Birds.htm
This isn't complete... but if someone has a better set of photos with descriptions I sure would appreciate it.

I had asked about the colors when mine were little, and was told that you just kind of have to wait until their full grown. They go through many evolutions of coloring, and some that I have now look NOTHING like they did as chicks. The white one was the only one I was sure of.

 

[TerrasCritters]

Check out the Button Quail yahoo group, lots of frienly very knowledgeable people there. For colors these are the colors that are known of here in the US and the aberviations you will often see them called...

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ButtonQuailUSA/

Standard abbreviations commonly used in our discussions:

N = Normal Wild Type
S = Silver - Recessive dilute
C = Cinnamon - Recessive causing reduction of black pigment
W = White - Recessive - Capable of masking all colors
Sh = Splash - White base color with colored patches
B = Blue Faced - Dominant - Single factor (B), Double factor (BB)
P = Golden Pearl - Dominant - Color and pattern variant
R = Red Breasted - Recessive - Color and pattern variant
Pd = Pied - A colored bird having white flight feathers
Ca = Caramel - Presently only identified in Australia
Pe = Pink Eyed Dilute - Still in development, extremely rare
I = Ivory - Cinnamon + Silver combination
Sl = Slate - Silver + Blue Faced combination
Sm = Smoky - Cinnamon + Silver (Ivory) + Blue Faced combination
Dv = Darth Vader - Selection of red breasted with extreme expression
Cu = Curly - Feather structure variant causing curled feathers


Some females have bibs like the Cinn the males will crow and have white bibs, some of them like whites and slate you can not tell males because they either dont get bibs or in white case, you cant see a white bib on a white bird. I sold all of my BQ earlier this year and its starting to get rusty on my memory. They are darling and I will do them again when I have a better setup!

Sorry for the delay in responce here