'New-to-me' Button Quail color

[shelleyd2008]

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[Akane]

A red/orangish front is a redbreasted. You can have red breasted on silver or slate and cinnamon. They will have the usual silver or light brown color plus the red front. Only males get the red front. The dark chicks don't exactly look like they have a blue face. The name comes from the fact when you put the gene on certain colors or look at the chicks their heads will be darker than chicks without the gene. It's very obvious if you have a blue face cinnamon chick next to a regular cinnamon.

This is my pair of red breasted cinnamons when they were young.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/quail/button pen 2/SANY1399.jpg

A double factor blue face hen
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/quail/button pen 1/2009/SANY1643.jpg

Double factor just means she's carrying 2 of the blue face genes and all her chicks end up blue faced no matter what she's crossed with.

I wish I had individual pics and more pics of them as adults but here's a big hatch I did with lots of colors
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v244/aqh88/quail/brooder/hatch 2/?action=view&current=SANY1263.flv

The smokey ones in front are slates. Directly behind them the lighter yellow ones are silvers. You can't tell the difference in the video or hardly even in pics but some of the silvers carried cinnamon. I spent some frustrated weeks wondering what they were. Their markings were different from silvers but they didn't look like anything else. In the end I had some very pretty cinnamon silver (called ivory) red breasted. You can also see a couple blue face cinnamons cross the camera with their darker heads. 2 regular red breasted chicks which are the striped ones. Then the one double factor blue face is the solid dark chick.

You can find pictures of most colors both chick and adult and descriptions of the rest at http://www.zebrafinch.com/NewButtonquail/MainQuail.html . Just scroll down to the chick identification and button quail mutations links near the bottom.

 

[gumpsgirl]

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