Cortunix and Buttons * PIC HEAVY* (update - New Pics 12-2-09)

[shelleyd2008]

1) Normal wild (jumbo browns actually

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2) Goldens
3) Tuxedo
4) Just call them whites, they won't get as big as the jumbos

5) Cinnamon

Buttons:
6) Look like bluefaces, lucky you!!
7) Probably a smokey or slate (silver x blueface)
8) Golden Redbreast (aka Darth Vader)
9) White
10) Looks like a cinnamon
11) Silver
12) Golden Pearl
13) Cinnamon blueface
14) Probaby cinnamon pearl, but I'm not 100% sure

Could be a different type of cinnamon blueface
15) Another Darth Vader baby
16) Those are again either cinnamon pearl or cinnamon blueface, I would lean more towards the blueface.
17) white
18) Normal wild color

Seems like you got quite the variety!

 

[Evermore Ranch]

ok does anyone recommend a good site to study the genetics on these guys?

 

[shelleyd2008]

zebrafinch.com has a book that they sell that covers genetics, it's supposed to be pretty informative. I don't bother, it's too much work!

I think half the fun with these guys is seeing what hatches from the eggs, like you getting 2 white chicks, when I have no white birds!

 

[spotsplus]

Love the photos- too cute! Lots of different colors there- nice group!

Congrats!
T

 

[ksukristin]

congrats on a great hatch! I wish I had been so lucky, but I had a major problem with my bator on day 15

I love that you posted up so many pics- so amazing to see all the different colors!

The two I have at home now are the coturnix that look like pic #1 the normal wild or jumbo browns? I am jealous of your adorable cinnamon and the buttons are adorable!

congrats!

 

[Evermore Ranch]

Thanks! We are having so much fun with these guys!! My DH ordered my some more buttons and I ended up with a total of 38 buttons, so I gave my best friend 6 for her son to enjoy watching grow up. They are growing so fast. . . every day we are on the phone telling each other stories of their antics. I was fortunate enough to get another blue face

The coturnix are growing so fast I have them in their own brooder now. I am going to take some more photos when everyone gets good feathering so we can compare what they grow into.

 

[DaKid]

HOW ABOUT POSTING SOME UPDATED PIC.'S OF DA QUAIL

 

[Overeasyplz]

oh god they are so freeking cute I just want to snuggle them all...carefully

 

[thatchickenlady]

Very nice pictures! I usually separate and raise larger chicks together, and smaller ones together (so far as is possible at a given time), as this works best for me...

I agree that trying to study genetics on a mix like this is probably not going to be very useful to you...

 

[Evermore Ranch]

Thought I would update with some button photos I got yesterday.