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    Whiting true blue crossed with marans

    Yes, the WTB hen would need to be barred. Barred WTB hens DO exist so that is an option!
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    Whiting true blue crossed with marans

    I’m jumping in years later to answer that YES, breeding purebred Whiting True Blues (2 blue egg genes) to purebred dark laying Marans does produce 100% Olive laying offspring with all offspring having pea combs. I’ve been breeding this cross myself. The highly unique and variable feather colors...
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    Welsummer hen × Olive Egger Roo

    If you use a Welsummer rooster who hatched from a heavily speckled egg, he should pass on speckling to at least half of his daughters.
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    Celadon quail genetics

    Additional Project: Once you are breeding 100% 2 gene carrying celadon males with Fee genes, use one Celadon Falb Fee male (or even better, a Pearl celadon male) over standard Italian females and repeat the entire process, selecting for only Pearl females to create Pearl celadon quail. Another...
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    Celadon quail genetics

    I’m no quail expert but it should be possible to breed the fee gene in. Only one copy of the fee gene is needed for expression and it is easily passed on. Step 1: You would need to breed a 2 copy celadon gene male (who hatched from a blue egg and also had a father who hatched from a blue egg)...
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    Thinking of quail

    I’m a new quail keeper who was gifted 9 quail from a fellow chicken breeder. The last month has been a whirlwind of researching for me! Here are some things I’ve learned: • Don’t mix quail & chickens. Quail being in contact with chicken poops can pass on some illnesses that are more deadly to...
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    What feather color is this? (Coturnix Pics included)

    Thank you so much! All my research had led to the same conclusions: Falb fee and likely a type of Grau Fee.
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    Japanese Coturnix Falb-Fee Discussion Thread

    This hatch mate to the Falb fee hen; what is it? (Seems to be Fee but is barred)
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    Japanese Coturnix Falb-Fee Discussion Thread

    This is a Falb fee hen correct?
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    What feather color is this? (Coturnix Pics included)

    Some more info: These quail hatched from eggs a breeder friend of mine got from a quail breeder who said they were “standard brown”. The eggs were standard size but some were blueish with brown speckles. My friend gave me 9 and kept 2 (another gray/brown barred and the only golden colored one...
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    What feather color is this? (Coturnix Pics included)

    Here is one of the other hens. She’s quite gray and I’m thinking there *might* be Schofield Silver in her lineage (as in she’s half pharaoh, half Schofield). Edited to add: after more research I think she has the Fee gene and is actually a Falb Fee hen.
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    What feather color is this? (Coturnix Pics included)

    I’m a chicken breeder turned new Coturnix quail keeper when a breeder friend gave me 9 quail. They are now 4.5 weeks old. They are all supposed to be standard brown/Pharaoh but two have barring on their chests and are a different pattern & shade than the others. Can anyone tell me what this...
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    Speckled egg genetics?

    @AusHen Thank you for your amazing reply with pictures! I think you’re exactly right; the rooster would need to have come from a speckled egg. The genes being passed on from father to daughter to her male offspringmakes sense. And my experiment seemed to confirm it: a non-speckled egg Roo...
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    Speckled egg genetics?

    I’m resurrecting this thread in the hopes that there is new knowledge out there someone would like to share! I did an experiment myself. One EE hen laid a green egg with self-colored green speckles that were the same green as her shell or slightly darker. I bred her to a Buff Orpington Roo who...
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    TWO Beak Deformities in 6 chick hatch. Incubation error?

    I had two hens go broody on the same day. I gave the new broody three blue eggs and the reliable Buff Orp broody 4 eggs. Around day 7 of incubation I found new broody had abandoned the eggs for most of the day and was on other fresh laid eggs in a different nest box. The eggs were fully cool. I...
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    Looking for true dual purpose chicks

    If you want dual purpose, Buff Orpington and Wyandottes seem to have done the best at keeping large body sizes if we are speaking of breeds in general Hoover Hatchery’s Buff Orpingtons have been the absolute largest I have ever owned. The hens were massive and the roosters huge. They bred...
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    Cuckoo Marans or Barred Rock Adult Rooster? (Pics)

    A lady one neighborhood over ordered a few ducklings last spring and her order arrived with six free “packing peanut” cockerel chicks. She raised them and gave them away. I got one boy at 3 months old and assumed he was a Barred Rock with really strange pink streaked legs. In person he looks...
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    Hi There!

    Just wanted to pop in an say hello to my fellow chicken keepers and especially those who also enjoy hatching! Love those blue eggs! 💙 🐣
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