What color are my Button Quail chicks?

[Stellar]

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just curious, how do you know #2 is a male?

i'd like to know also...lol
and how do you tell that #1 is a pearl?

Compared to a wild type, it is getting pearling in the feather plummage. I just hatched one out today. This time I WILL take a photo of it and start posting

It can turn male and female any day now

the OPs birds

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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just curious, how do you know #2 is a male?

That's a good question, I'd like to know too. I don't see any red or blue on it yet, I think it's too young.

I've hatched quiet a few of the Wild Type buttons..and all of them looked like #2 and they were all males. They just look that way. I've never had one be a female that looked like that.

I hatched 4 wilds the other day, they're all acting like little males...they call 24/7 non-stop and they bully the other chicks.

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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That's a good question, I'd like to know too. I don't see any red or blue on it yet, I think it's too young.

I've hatched quiet a few of the Wild Type buttons..and all of them looked like #2 and they were all males. They just look that way. I've never had one be a female that looked like that.

I hatched 4 wilds the other day, they're all acting like little males...they call 24/7 non-stop and they bully the other chicks.​

all these guys are pretty friendly, whether they are guys or girls

 

[colowyo0809]

I'm gonna hijack this thread for a moment and ask the same question about mine

5 weeks old roughly, and I'm thinking female because there's no red feathering at the vent?

Thanks!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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At this age if she doesn't have red vent feathers she's not going to get them. Are the flight feathers white? The face looks white too. She looks like a tuxedo, but I only recently got tuxedo eggs and they weren't laying (I don't think) when I sent these eggs to you. If she does have a white face and white flights then she's a cinnamon tuxedo. She looks like one of my old hens, who is supposedly a cinnamon pearl.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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That's a good question, I'd like to know too. I don't see any red or blue on it yet, I think it's too young.

I've hatched quiet a few of the Wild Type buttons..and all of them looked like #2 and they were all males. They just look that way. I've never had one be a female that looked like that.

I hatched 4 wilds the other day, they're all acting like little males...they call 24/7 non-stop and they bully the other chicks.​

Have you ever hatched female wilds? Because they look like that too

You can't tell them apart until the males start getting their 'boy' colors.

 

[colowyo0809]

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At this age if she doesn't have red vent feathers she's not going to get them. Are the flight feathers white? The face looks white too. She looks like a tuxedo, but I only recently got tuxedo eggs and they weren't laying (I don't think) when I sent these eggs to you. If she does have a white face and white flights then she's a cinnamon tuxedo. She looks like one of my old hens, who is supposedly a cinnamon pearl.

As far as I can tell she has the white flights, not sure about the face. I don't feel like trying to capture her a second time right away

So, now I need to either find someone in the area who has a male they are looking to get rid of, or would be willing to take her. One quail would be awfully lonely I imagine!

 

[mhwc56]

whatever the color ,she's a pretty one !

 

[chickhopeful12]

I don't know a thing about buttons...but chick #3 can come live at my house. Oh so cute...

 

[ChickieBooBoo]

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lol, I love her color