What colour morphs are these beautiful mutants?

[MageofMist]

Mine are looking like red-breasted cinnamons with a bit of a silvery hue. Kinda lost the camera so no pics at the moment, but once I find it, I'll post em'!

 

[MageofMist]

My attempts at getting pics of em'.
I have 3 out, but they get squirmy. They like to hide in my sleeves... XD




The male looks like a handsome fella, can't wait til more of his mature plumage comes in.

 

[JaeG]

They are gorgeous little things! I'd love to see them all grown up too. I've discovered that in New Zealand we don't have the red breasted mutation either. We have wild, silver, cinnamon, ivory and caramel, and that's it!

 

[MageofMist]

They are gorgeous little things! I'd love to see them all grown up too. I've discovered that in New Zealand we don't have the red breasted mutation either. We have wild, silver, cinnamon, ivory and caramel, and that's it!

So far I haven't seen any wild morphs over where I am, and haven't had one hatch... Yet, either. Red Breasted and Blue-Faced are the most common morphs where I am.

Also, the male cinnabutt is starting to develop these deep red, almost black feathers on his chest that look awesome! He and the others are also getting fairly tame due to my new method of handling them one at a time instead of having all of them out, and when I do have all of them out, the ones I am not holding are in my pocket snuggling and being adorable. I also bring out my tamed tuxedo quail to spend time with them in my pocket as I handle him a bunch too in order to keep him tame.


An older pic of my pocket birbs, more up-to-date pics of the male cinnabutt and his deep red chest feathers will be coming soon!

 

[MageofMist]

 

[JaeG]

So beautiful!

I have a hen on eggs in the aviary. She took over from her mother who gave up. Then her mother started laying again in the same nest. I've been weeding out the dead eggs but now the good ones are hatching one a day. Instead of abandoning the nest to look after her chicks she's still sitting on the eggs! I've found two dead chicks and the third I found near death, so now I have one lonely chick who thinks I'm it's mother. It's amazing how quickly a single chick imprints on a person, so I can see how individual attention makes a big difference. I'm still hoping another hatches so it does have a friend.

 

[DK newbie]

Yeah, that's a mess. Poor lonely chick.
It seems to me that they almost do the calculation - which way am I most likely to get most offspring: By caring for the ones that have already hatched or by staying on the nest waiting for more?
If only one chick hatches at a time, unfortunately the likely answer is going to be number 2.
At other times so many have hatched and are ready to leave the nest that mom chooses to abandon pipped eggs and/or newly hatched chicks. The world is a tough one.

 

[MageofMist]

The red breasted male is colouring up nicely. Makes me even more exited over how he'll look when mature! Looks as if he may have white wings too.

 

[JaeG]

He is a handsome fellow!

 

[MageofMist]

He is a handsome fellow!

Indeed he is, and he and his brother and sister are getting super tame. I was holding the blue-faced cinnamon male and he was just resting on my hand being all cute, and he ran about on me to rest on my arm or ran from one hand to another like a hamster every now and then and he made no attempts to fly away until an hour later... And that was to try and get back into his enclosure with his siblings, not to get away from me and pretty much jumped into my hands to be put in his pen. Even Tuxy, my first tame quail, tries to fly away from me at times!

While to some, it may seem like a small thing to be able to just calmly hold one without restraining and let it run about while supervised... But they are super timid and wild-natured birds and WILL squirm, flap, shed feathers and poop everywhere while making distress calls while you TRY to keep a hold of one, which is like trying to hold a wet bar of soap, to do a checkup or to clean their toes. Talking from experience...