What kind of buttons do I have?

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I have 14 button quails that are almost 6 weeks old.. trying to figure out the breed? Bought online and the guy only said tuxedos. Well one is but the others are not? Here's some pictures of them in their temporary enclosure. Picture overload.
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There are no breeds in button quail - only color mutations. You have white (bet you hadn't guessed that ^^), tuxedo, wild colored, golden pearl, red breasted and possibly cinnamon, as far as I can tell.
The roo in the last pics is read breasted, as is the hen next to him in the last pic.
The roo to the right in the second pic is the one I think is cinnamon, but I could be wrong. First pic, hen in the front of the group to the right is golden pearl.
3. pic, hen in the middle of the back row is wild colored.
 
There are no breeds in button quail - only color mutations. You have white (bet you hadn't guessed that ^^), tuxedo, wild colored, golden pearl, red breasted and possibly cinnamon, as far as I can tell.
The roo in the last pics is read breasted, as is the hen next to him in the last pic.
The roo to the right in the second pic is the one I think is cinnamon, but I could be wrong. First pic, hen in the front of the group to the right is golden pearl.
3. pic, hen in the middle of the back row is wild colored.
Ah, I see! Thanks so much!!:)
They are feisty little things.
 
Also how do you know who's a roo and who's not? They won't let me pick them up to check vent feather colors. Not happening lol. Any other ways to guess?
 
The one in the last pics shows the 'vent color' way up on his sides, so he is easy to tell without turning him over. He also has a thin white bib - but in theory you could have found a bib like that in a hen as well, only the full array of white and black stripes found in wild colored males means it's a certain male. But he also shows blue feathers on his sides, which is a male color as well.
His color is called red breasted, and his female counterpart (second pic, two girls in the middle) is very different in color - there is no male color that looks like a female red breasted, though young male red breasteds might look similar, but those seem to have reached an age where you can be decently certain.
The golden pearl and the wild colored ones should also have been showing at least some blue feathers on their sides if they were to turn into males.
The tuxedo and the white one, you probably won't be able to sex even if you do catch them and look at their vents, though you might be lucky that the tuxedo shows some red feathers at the edge of the white feathers near the vent. I'd put each in a cage with known males and watch for eggs or male behavior, though looking at the vent might also give you a clue - I've noticed a difference in the appearance of the vent in my males vs. females. But it still requires you to catch them. I'd suggest using a net.
 

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