Hi it's been a while since I've posted here, just wanted to know the answer to a quick question. I bought a dozen eggs two days ago Labelled "Cream Crested legbars"
I imediatly bought them as I heard legbar chicks were autosexers so I wanted to try them out. But on this forum I had heard that...
I own a small flock of barnevelders but one of the girls has a very dark colour. I reasently went to a poultry show and all the barnevelders there were similar to the rest of my flock.
Could she be a differant breed or could she have a pigmentation problem?
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They've been bred for colour mutations, yes. Monarc has a good post on here with pictures of the various colours. If you do a search on 'Coturnix colors' you should find it.
-Spooky
Yep I've got nada more to add here and as Spooky mentioned you can visit my post about Coturnix info and...
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Italian is a colour of Coturnix. Chances are good the "coturnix" are the Pharaoh colour and the mix of "japanese" and "italian" are from pens with both Pharaoh and Italian coloured parents.
Don't worry, they're all the same thing, just different colours.
-Spooky
thanks for that, so...
Hi,
I've just purchased 18 quail eggs,
6 labled coturnix
and 12 a mix between japanese and italian quail.
All are members of Corturnix C. But that makes me think:
1.what the hell are the first six?
2.How am I going to tell the italian and the japanese apart? (all the eggs look the same, and...
Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain :
Alex!
So you're trying your hand at Coturnix, eh? Good choice! I'm sure Monarc23/Niki will be here soon, too. Where are you located?
A rabbit hutch is good for quail, and if you have many quail (and you will) you may find that keeping them off the ground on 1/2" wire...
Hi I'm new to this forum but I've been keeping poultry for a while now and I decided to move on to quail. I bought a few fertile eggs and I have them cookin' in the incubator now. Me and my dad started working today converting an old rabit hutch into a coop for them once out of the brooder and I...