Button Quail Edutation Time: Genetic Info

[Johanna Lee]

I am really new to breeding birds, but right now I have an aviary of assorted birds. One aviary has a Silver Red-Breasted Male Button Quail, and 3 females. We're pretty sure one female is a CINNAMON, but not positive. And we have two other females.


One (first pic) we think is a wild or a wild red-breasted hen????



The second I thought was a Wild, but now looking at other pictures it's possibly a GOLDEN PEARL?




Any advice is great, because the second has laid 5 eggs (one might be from the cinnamon though) and I'd like to know what sort of babies we're going to get

Very late response, both are wild types. Pearls are so named because they have “pearls” attached to the streaking of the feathers. They’re not always perfectly circular in the golden shaded birds but the dark pearl hens will show it very clearly. If you search my name on Facebook you may find my post in my group showing the color