‘Chocolate’ Coturnix!

[Susan Skylark]

So I fell in love with American Pansy (check thieving otter or pipsnchicks for pics/info) and happily got a nice male in some mixed eggs I hatched this spring, his single fertile egg from his first hatch (just nine weeks old at the time) is now a handsome 6 week old gentleman:

I crossed him with some pearl (Italian fee) hens and got this! AP is supposed to be very recessive, but apparently over Italian in heterozygous form you get ‘chocolate!’ I left him with the same ladies and got 11/15 fertile eggs by waiting a few weeks until he was more mature. The chicks are almost 3 weeks, some are fee and some not, but still a cool looking bird:

You can even feather sex them at this age, they very obviously have spots or clear chests while males have a reddish tinge on the back of the head. I was expecting to wait another generation to get some AP impact on my coloration but I’m tickled with this cross!

 

[GodLovesU]

I don’t quite understand genetics, but I bet they’re really fun!

 

[Esc_Quaily]

Well done!!! Congratulations on this striking pattern. These pictures are gorgeous . I want some!!!

 

[Susan Skylark]

4 weeks old, the hens look like a typical Italian.

But the boys are gorgeous, almost too pretty to eat but unless they find a home pretty soon they'll have to go in the freezer (yes, I already have an older brother in the breeding flock along with dad and I'm keeping all the hens as well).

The genetics are pretty easy: Homozygous American Pansy crossed with an italian/fawn bird gives you a funky Italian! Usually American Pansy is pretty recessive but apparently it will peek out a bit in a male Italian carrier.

 

[farmer90]

They do look lovely. I have similar and just as in your case, the boys were more pronounced in their colours. Too bad I didn't get any pictures of them before culling. But here's some pictures of one of my girls.

 

[The Sniper]

I don’t quite understand genetics, but I bet they’re really fun!

quails are fun until one gets out, or you open the pen, or literally interact with them at all. At least mine were like that
small as a swallow and strong as a goose. moving quail from one enclosure to another is a nightmare, and if one gets away from you......












I hope you have good eyes and even better running shoes and only the best catching reflexes

 

[GodLovesU]

quails are fun until one gets out, or you open the pen, or literally interact with them at all. At least mine were like that
small as a swallow and strong as a goose. moving quail from one enclosure to another is a nightmare, and if one gets away from you......












I hope you have good eyes and even better running shoes and only the best catching reflexes

I have Button quail, they’re pretty fast and flighty.

 

[The Sniper]

I have Button quail, they’re pretty fast and flighty.

I still have 10 but I wish I didnt they havent ever done anything good for me. They hate me, theyre annoying, they cost feed, they cost a pred proof pen my chicks could be ground foraging in right now.
And I hatched them from eggs and raised them like pets
ohh and they had a lot of genetic beak issues

maybe if they were more friendly I would like them, but I just cant

 

[catesquire]

Why are you keeping them if you don't like them? And more to the point, why are you complaining about it on someone else's bird appreciation thread?

Love the pictures, Susan and the farmer90, those are such pretty color morphs!

 

[The Sniper]

Why are you keeping them if you don't like them? And more to the point, why are you complaining about it on someone else's bird appreciation thread?

Love the pictures, Susan and the farmer90, those are such pretty color morphs!

Im keeping them for someone else.
they are pretty birds, but I would rather if they acted more like chickens