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

[citalk2much]

If there is red then it is wild color.
Again remember how tiny the screen I look at is lol

 

[shelleyd2008]

That's why I thought I'd point that out to you

It doesn't look like a blueface to me, it looks like a very dark wild color. It doesn't help that it is still sticky looking, that will make it look darker.

 

[citalk2much]

Lol
They are cute chicks. I am up in the air on the last one looks like a golden pearl thou it could be red breasted what do you think Shelley

 

[shelleyd2008]

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I think it's a red breasted, it has a whole stripe of yellow across its shoulders. You said before that gp's were like wilds but with yellow stripes, right? So based on that, I'd say redbreasted. But its down is darker than the one you said was redbreasted. That one (#5) has almost a dark grey look to it, where as the one in the last pic has black. But the one in the last pic also has a yellow patch on the back of its head, the one in #5 just has it on its wings and breast. Idk, I'm no expert!

 

[citalk2much]

I think they will both be red breasted. Wish I had a computer then I could show you the pictures of my red breasted chicks some are darker like that. I bet it grows up to be a male! That is how mine did it

And yes golden pearl chicks look just like wild only they have yellow strips

 

[Chickiechick]

Thanks everyone for the button color discussion

I've SO much to learn so I appreciate you all sharing your thoughts.

All 7 buttons are different colors in real life and I understand that different computer monitors may show the colors differently so a for sure answer isn't possable. Regardless , I'm really enjoying the color discussions and trying to learn for the future. You guys 'n girls are awesome

I am excited about a 'possable' df blue

( even though it may really be a wild )
The 'white' suspect I don't think is. My last batch had a white and it was a bright glowing completely yellow chick. Of course being new and only experiencing one white I could be way off base. The chick pictured does have the bright glowing yellow but only its wings, shoulders and chest. It's head and butt are a 'dirty yellow' ( is that a color ? ) with very very faint greyish stripes.

I'll share more photos as they all grow.

 

[citalk2much]

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Then it would be silver/slate.

 

[citalk2much]

And I think that wild hens are on of the prettiest colors for hens

 

[quailbrain]

Very cute! I just never get enough of button pictures. In my flock I have a number of varieties of blue faced. Some are double factor and completely dark but I also have a silver blue faced and a cinnamon blue faced. It is possible you have a normal blue faced. It does seem awfully dark and with the white I'd personally guess a DF Blue but between camera and computer screens it's just a guess. Congrats!

 

[Akane]

A very slight coloring with stripes on an otherwise nearly bright yellow chick may be a silver plus cinammon aka ivory. They are near impossible to tell in pics and will drive you nuts trying to figure out exactly what they are the first time you see them. They look so light but yet they aren't pure yellow of a white or the solid "dirty yellow" or grey of a silver and they may have very faint stripes which a silver will not have. Now that you mention it and I look closer the one right in the middle in the first pic of them all and the last pic with all of them really does look like an ivory or even slate and ivory (blue face, cinnamon, silver genes). I did produce some with red breast, blue face, cinnamon, and silver genes that were interesting. The breasts on the males were rose colored, the body a softened version of the slate grey which is often called dove grey in other animals, and overlayed with cinnamon along the edges of each feather. As chicks stripes were obvious despite the chicks being quite light and some kept a slight bit of striping as they got their adult feathers. You'll have to wait to see how it feathers to really tell what genes it's carrying but if it looks like a silver only faintly striped or ticked with cinnamon odds are it's an ivory.

The lightest yellow one does look white to me. My silvers never looked that bright but it's possible.

I've seen some DF that were more chocolate brown and the stripes may show through on a red breasted blue face that is very light. I would still be quite confident to say the one in the first pic of an individual chick is a DF.