WE NO LONGER HAVE BUTTONS, BUT THOUGHT WE WOULD LEAVE
THE PAGE UP FOR THOSE INTERESTED AND WE WILL EVENTAULLY GET
BACK INTO THE QUAIL, I MISS THEM, 
THANKS FOR LOOKING
Button Quail are the smallest quail.
"Cute As A Button"
We totally didn't think these would hatch! They were past the date we had
calculated for them but, July 28th & 29th, 14 button quail have hatched!
Well its been nearly 5 weeks now, the quail are suposed to be full grown and are
99% fully feathered! I finally got some pictures uploaded and resized.
I am working on learning the different colors, this is why some are numbered.
Here is the link to my Fotki for more pictures!
http://public.fotki.com/ATerraCreation/terras-birds/button-quail/
September 30th we went to meet Don the owner of yahoo group
Button Quail USA, we brought 11 of our 12 buttons to him to tell me WHAT colors they were LOL
after a short visit I think I have a list of what colors I have and a good male female ratio!
We brought home 2 hens and a mess load of eggs. We hatched 29 chicks from the eggs!
We tried to get some new colors in the eggs, some that we did not already have. Sucess!
I am not sure what the colors are, I have not learned them all, by looking at them and naming them.
I am working on a cage for them for pairs and will be cutting back on my Button Quail flock
keeping only ones I want for pets, I will be taking it down to about 10 pairs.
Here is a table for most all of the Button Quail Colors.
Alot of people call them different colors, that are not listed below, they will call some,
one name when there real color is something else, its an honest mistake of someone who
wasnt educated about it correctly.
At some point I will beable to provide a link to a site where there will be visual colored
birds to look at with there color name near by.
Standard abbreviations commonly used in our discussions:
N = Normal Wild Type
S = Silver - Recessive dilute
C = Cinnamon - Recessive causing reduction of black pigment
Cx = Cinnamon - S_ex Linked Recessive - Limited to Australia
W = White - Recessive - Capable of masking all colors
Sh = Splash - White base color with colored patches
B = Blue Faced - Dominant - Single factor (B), Double factor (BB)
P = Golden Pearl - Dominant - Color and pattern variant
R = Red Breasted - Recessive - Color and pattern variant
Pd = Pied - A colored bird having white flight feathers
Ca = Caramel - Presently only identified in Australia
Pe = Pink Eyed Dilute - Still in development, extremely rare
I = Ivory - Cinnamon + Silver combination
Sl = Slate - Silver + Blue Faced combination
Sm = Smoky - Cinnamon + Silver (Ivory) + Blue Faced combination
Dv = Darth Vader - Selection of red breasted with extreme expression
Cu = Curly - Feather structure variant causing curled feathers
Some additional Button Quail info can be found at
our x| Favorite Sites |x page.
Links & Info for Quail
Button Quail Yahoo Group
Great friendly group for all your needed help.
http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/ButtonQuailUSA
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ButtonQuailUSA
http://www.buttonquailusa.com/index.html
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Button Quail
Info including, Introduction, Housing, Feeding, Special care for
females, Top 10 Rules For Buttons Safety
http://www.cyberquail.com/homepage.html
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http://www.gamebird.com/quailbutton2.html
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Button Quail Fourm & Other Info
http://www.voy.com/13979/
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Button Quail FAQ
http://www.geocities.com/butonquail/index.html