5/17/16 – Due to time constraints in my life I am not currently raising or selling either live button quail or eggs.
I would suggest contacting Garrie Landry if you cannot find a local source as he has very nice button quail and eggs .
5/17/16 – Due to time constraints in my life I am not currently raising or selling either live button quail or eggs.
I would suggest contacting Garrie Landry if you cannot find a local source as he has very nice button quail and eggs .
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Due to personal time constraints I must stop selling birds or eggs for the time being.
The 3 surviving fallow chicks are doing very well. I think they are wild colored fallows but am still guessing on that since fallow photos online are hard to come by of the different mutations with this gene. I also ended up with a very light chick in the same batch that might be ivory.
I had four fallow button quail chicks hatch out yesterday: 6/8/15– 🙂 If a couple thrive, I should have the basis to set up a fallow button quail breeding program. They have their flaws (poor vision, sparse down, less able to compete with other button quail and may do poorly in an aviary depending on how well they can see). That said, the dilute effect is quite beautiful and I think it worth while to continue to try and strengthen the mutation through cross breeding back to normal colors to see if the vision issues can be reduced or eliminated over time. Working for darker eyes as some breeders have done, would also theoretically help with the vision issues. I will try to post photos as they grow. They are less than 1 day old in the feature photo.
Hatch April 12-14, 2015
Sample photos of chicks produced by each pair.
Pair 4 Chicks
Pair 6 Chicks
Pair 7 Chicks (4/4 eggs)
Continue reading Photos of Chicks from April 2015 Button Quail Hatch
I have tried to come up with more ways to identify which eggs/chicks come from which button quail pairs. I do a few things to accomplish this goal.
Pair #1 produced some beautiful chicks. They also produced a male of a color that I have not seen in person before. I believe the color is likely “Smoky”. Smoky is a combination of 3 mutations: blueface, cinnamon and silver. The best way I can describe this fellow is to say he is lighter than a slate button quail with a cinnamon overtone. I do not have the “ideal” mate for him to try and get more of this color currently. So for now, he will be paired with either a single factor or double factor slate female (both hens are offspring of pair #3 and it is unknown whether either bird carries cinnamon). The other bird in these photos is slate in color.
This is perhaps my favorite button quail pair. The female is a bit small because she was ill as a chick and almost died…but she is just really cute. I paired her up with a male from California. And no eggs….
Continue reading Good Things Come to Those Who Wait… Tuxedo button quail eggs 🙂
In one of the Colorado button quail eggs, I got a surprise. All of my slates up to this point have been solid silver gray (males will have a few pink feathers near the vent/underside) or silver gray scalloped if slate pearl.
This male, has pink creeping up his belly, somewhat like a silver red breasted would…but blueface seems to mask colors so I’m not even sure if silver blueface red breasted is possible.
Continue reading A Red Breasted Slate Button Quail… Is this Possible?