Button Quail pics, now 5 weeks old! *UPDATED with New Pics!*

[cluckcluck42]

What cuties! Isn't it amazing how fast they grow? Not sure about sex on any of them but I'm pretty sure the first pic the top one is a girl. Looks just like one of mine.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I can't see the ones in the last pic well enough to tell anything.

The ones in the first pic are (clockwise from top left): Red breasted, 2 silver (could be silver red breast or pearl--hard to tell), another red breast, and a cinnamon blue face. It's too early to tell sex, plus you need good shots of the vent area for that. Males will get red feathers around the vent.

 

[PeeperS2011]

Thank you. I will try and get better pics.

 

[PeeperS2011]

Heres a better pic of my 9 babies at 12 days old. Anyone on color or sex?

Thanks

 

[Stellar]

Still young for sexing but you have a wild (blue breast), 4 silvers, 2 red breast, a cinnamon, and a cinnamon tuxedo

 

[PeeperS2011]

Thank you quaillady. Aren't your grandbabies cute? Lol How old before you can tell the sex? So that I will know if I need to buy another cage to house them.

 

[PeeperS2011]

Oh 1 more question. I noticed that 3 of them like to stretch their necks up and then they move their throats in and out real fast like they are trying to crow ; but no noise comes out. Could that mean they are males? If not what are they doing?

 

[shelleyd2008]

Sounds like they are panting.

 

[Rainwolf]

here is a male "crowing"

He's mad at me atm... in time out since he was not being nice to the girl I was trying to introduce him too.

 

[jeccajo]

Gorgeous coloring!!!!

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