Colors ? Baby Buttons **** lots of photos ****

[quailbrain]

When a Blue Faced hen had a bib it is not usual uniform like a males. It is usually white blotches more so. Males seem to be the only one that get the beautiful perfect lined white bibs. Red breasted hens do have a facial marking that looks like a bib but it is normally the same color as much of the bird and not the white. On zebra finch.com they have a Blue Face Double Factor Cinnamon Redbreast which is also called Rusty nail. There is a picture of a female. It is kinda hard to see but you can see a blotch of white on her chest.
http://www.zebrafinch.com/newbuttonquail/Quail Pictures/RustyNailFe.JPG
I have a blotched female at home but no pictures with me... maybe I can figure out how to load them (haven't tried that yet on the forum!) I have a blue faced male who has no white markings at all. Unless the bird is white it will have rusty red feathers around it's vent ONLY if it is a male. Females will never have the red feathers in this area.
At first I had a lot of trouble sexing the Blue Faced but the vent feathers are a great help. Now if I could just find a fool proof way to sex the whites.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Blue faces are easy to sex, if it's a male, its head will be a very shiny blue. They shouldn't have 'bibs' at all. They can have a white patch on them (my male df blueface does), but they shouldn't have bibs.

I wish I still had my df silver hen. She looked just like a male, except all my silver colored males have the red vent feathers.
There are other colors that don't have the red vent feathers. I don't think silvers are supposed to, unless they have cinnamon or something else mixed in. I know there are many people on here that have colors other than white that don't have red vent feathers. I don't think my df blueface does? I'll have to check.

 

[citalk2much]

BF will have rust vent feathers on males

The colors that don't have or most often don't have the reddish vents are white, splash, tuxedo

There are always exceptions to rules

 

[quailbrain]

I guess I didn't phrase/seperate that well. I was refering to other colors and not the blue faced when I refered to the bibs. Blue faced and whites fall completely into their own rules for facial markings I feel.

Silvers should have a reddish pink color feathers on the vent of males. I am not sure as to All males having these though I'd bet it is a high percentage if it is not all. However, you absolutely will not find this coloration on a female of any color.

 

[citalk2much]

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Wish I had other then my word and Susan "button quail heaven" having seen it and the are I believe pictures on here of my blue face hen that was a perfect color male all the way to the vent feathers!
As I said all rules can be broken

 

[shelleyd2008]

No, the way that works is that only males have rust/red/pink vent feathers, but not all males do. There are quite a few people that have had silver males without the colored vent feathers.

The only sure way to sex is to wait for eggs

ETA: Well, it looks like I stand corrected

Like I said, eggs are the only way to tell for sure!

 

[citalk2much]

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Lol Shelley you should have seen my face when I found eggs in a pen with 2 males.

 

[citalk2much]

Oh and only males make the air sound as far as I know