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That’s good advice, good to know. This is the first year where I actually hatched a decent number of cockerels and can pick from them. It sounds like a good problem to have but with my hatching issues in the past I would hatch lots of pullets and few cockerels and it made it really hard to...

Ah well, considering his other good qualities it might be worth keeping him around.

There is this cockerel, he’s quite young: @KristenG keep or cull? Will his breast and beard color ever match the rest of him or is it doomed to be pale forever?

I had this beautiful cockerel, the oldest: took this pic today. His eyes were lovely, though he had a little black in the beard. Sadly, I had to cull him today because he sounded congested and I have a no tolerance policy when it comes to illness. Too bad, since he was my favorite. So I guess...

Oh, I thought you said recessive light eyes, not recessive dark eyes. That changes things completely.

Hey, half right is still something, lol. So the light eyes is sex linked recessive? Wouldn't it be br then instead of Br? Lol, that sounds about right.

This is the only one since I haven’t bred him so I don’t know if it is simply coincidental or actually linked to the dark eye gene.

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Okay, cool! I would say that the eyes on my d’Anvers are definitely closer to a dark red than a brown, but brown eyes seem to have been achieved in other quail varieties like d’Uccles which doesn’t seem necessary for the breed so their must be some linkage to the color, imo?I have a quail...

This only spirals to more questions like: what causes the dark face and eyes on a gold or silver birchen Modern Game? I’d think they don’t have Ml because that would erase the gold lacing on the breast, right? Is id+ and E^R enough? I mean, black copper Marans have bay eyes and they seem to lack...

Over the years I've been obsessed with brown eyes, especially those of my d'Anvers. I stare into the dark depths and ponder. All this pondering led me to wonder: How come no matter what breed you have, brown eyes come with quail coloring? In my female-line d'Anvers I get brown/dark red eyes in...