What colour morphs are these beautiful mutants?

[MageofMist]

I've had some baby quail hatch yesterday and am puzzled by their colours. I was expecting some Red Breasteds and Blue Faced chicks which are common, but I got a mix of unusual babies.

Some look like Red Breasted quail, but the black being replaced by a faint orange or grey, and on one, the black being replaced with a lighter yellow (but looks solid yellow in the pics.) One is like a tuxedo but darker all over, and I believe some are slates and one even has the light wingtips the blue-faced gene has, which makes sense as Blue-Faced is used in making a Slate. Is there such a thing as a Red Breasted Slate?

 

[The Phantom]

Aww! So cute! Are they button quail? Maybe a cross.

 

[MageofMist]

Aww! So cute! Are they button quail? Maybe a cross.

They are all button quail, all from my hens.
One is from a blue-faced pair, while the others are from the cinnamons and silver tux.


The parents of my babies.

 

[The Phantom]

Ok. I have bobwhite and mountain quail. So not sure. Sorry.

 

[DK newbie]

You could have a combination of the red breasted gene, the silver gene and the blueface gene, there is no reason why that shouldn't be possible. Though the red breasted color probably won't show up as clearly on a silver bird. It'll be interesting to see what they turn into
You could also have red breasted cinnamons and red breasted cinnamon silvers..

 

[MageofMist]

You could have a combination of the red breasted gene, the silver gene and the blueface gene, there is no reason why that shouldn't be possible. Though the red breasted color probably won't show up as clearly on a silver bird. It'll be interesting to see what they turn into
You could also have red breasted cinnamons and red breasted cinnamon silvers..

I can't wait for them to grow up so I can see what they grow into. I have seen red breasted silvers before in pics... I love the pale orange on the stomach and chest on the males and the females do look quite majestic. I do have one red breasted cinnamon female and she looked different to these chicks when younher, but could be a darker hue of cinnamon to her pinkish colour. And isn't Cinnamon and Silver genes together Ivory? =o Never expected to possibly get an ivory morph quail so soon, then again, I thought I was just gonna get red breasteds and blue-faced and possibly a silver or cinnamon but those being rare due to the dominant genes... And here I am with my quail I believe were hit with a radioactive rainbow.

One of the chicks seemed to be having issues walking and kept falling on it's side and back and was unable to get up and was rather sickly looking, though I have had this before and it is usually caused by them not drinking enough... And indeed, it recovered shortly after I started dripping water onto it's beak, while not 100% recovered yet, the chick is actually getting up on it's own when it falls over and is a lot more active and actually pecks at the water droplet at the end of the syringe to drink it without me having to drip it onto the beak anymore.

Still falls over a lot more than normal for it's age, but at least it can get back up now and is just as energetic as the others.

 

[JaeG]

This is what I believe to be my Ivory chick with soft yellow/white looking down. We don't have pure whites in New Zealand - Ivory is as white as we get here. It's my first Ivory chick from my silvers and cinnamons so I'm excited to watch it grow up. And now I'm excited to see yours grow up too - they are so beautiful. I love Button quail genetics because they seem to be able to pass on so many different mutations all mixed together. Just wish we had more mutations here (especially the blue faced - love that mutation).

And here's the little Ivory second in on the left compared to its silver siblings and a caramel

 

[Dani xxx]

So cute

 

[MageofMist]

Here they are with their pins coming in, sadly we lost the sickly chick 3 days after it hatched, but the other 5 are doing very well.

 

[JaeG]

Just wondering how your babies turned out?

We've ended up with three Ivory girls and they are so beautiful. Here are two of them.