Need help identifying sex/color

selfsuffally

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Out of the second batch of eggs (same seller) only two hatched again. I need help identifying sex and color. They are roughly 4 1/2 weeks. I'm pretty sure my older buttons are both silver males as they are about 7 weeks, no eggs and both have a bib. The older buttons are in the last photo.

I also have Gambel that are 4 1/2 weeks old. Is it too early to sex them? To me they all look the same. Most have a faint hint of red on their head and some have a good amount.
 

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I think the little one on the left is a cinnamon male. I'm not sure about the other one (in New Zealand we don't have very many mutations) but it looks to be a tuxedo. Your older ones do look to be silver boys. I don't keep Gambel quail so I can't help you there sorry.
 
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Just got my 3 birds on Saturday I have a leg horn rooster I'm sure but I'm not sure of the hen can someone help identify her please
 
Flip your buttons over and look at the area around the vent. Boys will have rust red vent feathers (they will be quite pale in silvers, but they will be there) and girls won't.
The bird to the left in the first pic has so many of them you don't need to flip him over to see and the 2. one might not have them even if it is male, as it appears to be tuxedo and white feathers don't turn red in males. There still might be some though.
For the two silvers, the one in front is clearly a male as it has the full array of black (or gray) and white stripes that makes up a bib, but I'm not sure the one in the back has, so I'd definitely have a look at its vent feathers to be sure. Girls CAN have white markings in the bib area.
 

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