My very first Buttons hatched !!

[mhwc56]

uhhhhh ..no i do not have pictures... yet....

i was beginning to think they weren't gooing to hatch at all ,then i work up this morning to squeeky peeping...at first i thought it was the sparrows that winter out on the window sill but then i realized it was IN the room.....YAH!
so according to Garrie Landry's chick id chart the 1st one looks like a Normal double factor Blue face and the 2nd looks to be a Normal Red Breasted......

i thought i had an idea of how SMALL the chicks were going to be but boy was i WRONG! they're NOT as big as a bumble bee...at least not the ones we have around here.
Now i wait...there are a LOT of eggs still in the bator ....

martha

 

[mhwc56]

so in my new mama enthusiasm.. i'm pretty sure i'm WRONG on the colors ...but i will get pictures up when all this is done and you experienced folks can enlighten me .....martha

 

[Stellar]

Those buttons change colors so chick colors are not always definite

The Red breasted will be yellow with a dark rump and the blue face will be a dark brown for chicks. Double factors are darker and usually you can't even tell until the birds are adults.

 

[mhwc56]

1 baby is yellow with dark stripes on it's back/butt 1 is real dark(black?) with spots of reddish here and there. the last 2 hatched so far are blackish /charcoal with definite
blue-ish coloring on their heads and tiny specks of white on 1's face by it's beak.....
There are only 4 hatched at this time ...i'm waiting patiently for more...i hope!

 

[Stellar]

charcoal/bluish with around beak is double factor blue face

You have a little red breast too but the splotches of red...may be cinnamon

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

OH - Ah Cinnamon

 

[mhwc56]

Quote:
YAAAAAAAAAH! my favorites!

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Which is your favorite, the blue face or the cinnamon, or both.

I am a cinnamon nut case for certain. All you have to do is look at my chickens and later, well I bet I end up with just M. Golds and Redgold Coturnix. I am contemplating a button pair as you know. Oh, decisions, decisions. I don't handle settling for less #'s than what I really want very well.

 

[mhwc56]

Blue face /B.F. combos and cinnamon/cinnamon combos and any silver combos too........there's probably others but those are it for now

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Ah, I feel for you, you have Button fever far worse than I do. And you are doing something about it.