Just got a purple egg from my Corturnix quail!! Is this common?!?

[ChristaK]

Hello everyone!
I have a dozen quail of various coloring and I have been getting about two eggs a day of standard color. Then, all of the sudden today I got two new eggs! A pure green one & a true purple egg with dark purple spots!!! I also received my other two usual eggs, so I know these are definitely new eggs. I am just wondering, after no Google success, is this egg a rare sight in the quail world? And I am going to hatch it as soon as possible, so is there a high chance that the egg color gene of purple will pass off to the chicks?
Thanks for your help!

 

[ChristaK]

 

[laseterlass]

I only have two little hens but from the variety of color of eggs you would think that I had a dozen. I get those too. But never white?

 

[ChristaK]

No I haven't gotten any white at all... although who knows what I'll get now! I thought purple was so unusual!

 

[mckenzie]

When I had hundreds of Corturnix quail I would get weird colored eggs like this every once in a while.

 

[oktx]

I get one with navy blue spots occasionally.

 

[myfinefeatheredfriends]

I've gotten quite a mixture of colors in my Coturnix quail. One time I got a solid green egg with a pinkish-purple ring around it.

 

[snowpetals907]

ive gotten all white, blue with only a few spots, green, and the weird purple ones. i love the color variety of their eggs!

 

[CrazyBirdChick]

I get purple eggs all the time. Purple, pink, orange, once a deep burgundy, brown, white, mint green, etc. We have some serious rainbow layers.
The chick hatched from the purple egg could carry a gene to produce colored eggs, yes.

 

[damionlake]

Their are white egg laying Coturnix, a man named Perry Schofield breeds them as well as blue egg layers. The white egg is pretty good, which you can breed and concentrate into a white egger gene after a few tricky generations of breeding. How ever the other one is a no go. Its just caused from the type of food and vitamins that your bird has been getting and you could breed a bird to lay those. It is nice tog et different looking eggs every once in a while isnt it though!