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post #1 of 21

11/16/11 at 11:41pm

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One hatched today with a black back, yellow and white belly and face.
I don't have any other black coturnix, so I'm kinda wondering exactly how this happened. (?) lol

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11/17/11 at 12:54am

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It's a dark range tux. Darker than I have ever seen, but there may be some sort of new mutation going on there, but most likely not.

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11/17/11 at 5:18am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by katagra

One hatched today with a black back, yellow and white belly and face.
I don't have any other black coturnix, so I'm kinda wondering exactly how this happened. (?) lol

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it looks VERY dark..like velvety black ...BUT... there's alot of shadow on it in your pic so it's hard to tell definitively.

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11/17/11 at 6:11am

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I had a lot of trouble getting him to hold still. He was almost solid black first day, I'm starting to see a very dark brown/reddish set of stripes down his back.
When he gets a little bigger I'll post some more pictures. His beak and feet are pink, so he looks a little different from the dark ranges I found pictures of, but maybe it's white part of the tux. smile ~

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11/17/11 at 6:38am

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yeah hes a REAL dark ranged tux. neat bird would like to see pics of him in a few weeks...

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11/17/11 at 6:47am

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That's a nice dark range tux. Those are my favorites.

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11/17/11 at 7:01am

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You mean to say all you have is wild color and that one hatched? I guess it is possible. Latent colors and all, beautiful looking bird

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11/17/11 at 8:43am

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I started out with just jumbo wild (pharaoh, I guess is what they call it) and white.
Soon after that I hatched a few that were darker, but just a dark brown,
figured they were range. Some of them looked reddish like a rosetta.
Then some range tuxedo hatched out, but nothing else I have comes close to black.
I've got one a day old that's a chocolate brown, which is what my "range" birds looked like when they were young.
I may need to put up some pictures of my stock so people have an idea of what I mean.

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11/17/11 at 9:03am

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Here's a shot of the chocolate, the black tux, and a regular in my brooder. I can see faint reddish brown lines on the head and back now.
Sorry about the aspect, facebook auto turned it.

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11/17/11 at 9:36am

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Oh yes, very possible to get that color since you have Rosetta and wild too

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