I'm a newbie to this forum and Coturnix quail. I went to a friends house who ordered eggs from eBay and picked 7 day old chicks by color alone. I basically chose 1 of each color chick or color combo chick she had. I was lucky and ended up with 5 females and 2 males. The one I like the best and would like to replicate and maybe start a pen and work on getting these to breed true is a hen that is a tux, top half being red with poor patterning at best, solid red on top side for the most part and solid white on bottom. I still have alot to learn and have read this entire thread and this is all so confusing to me. I'm am trying but not sure if she is Roux, Rosetta or Scarlett tux or if some of those words have the same meaning I'm assuming a Tibetan red has the wild pattern but with a red cast so thinking she is not that. I just now started collecting and incubating eggs. One of my males is a brown jumbo or standard wild type in color the other male is what u guys refer to as Manchurian I think being a blond color with wild pattern overcast throughout and maybe having a lil red in face and head. My question is, the wild pattern seems to b dominant from what I understand so out of possible males and that female I will get what u guys call an autumn something or a scarlet Rosetta not even counting in the pied gene. Is it possible to get birds from this cross that look exactly like her? I don't care if they r pied or not. If not what color male should I cross back to her out of the offspring to at least start the journey of replicating her color and eventually have them breed true. I know it would b easier to just buy more that look like her but I prefer to learn by doing. Please excuse me as being new to all of this my descriptions or slight understandings of any of this have made me come across as a tard? Any help would b greatly appreciated and from the last few post thought maybe we needed to get the thread to being closer to getting back on track anyways. If my descriptions of my birds colors make no sense at all please let me know and I will b happy to post pics of both the males and the female I referred too.
Btw I tried the quail calculator and was too ignorant to us it.
Btw I tried the quail calculator and was too ignorant to us it.
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