➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Sara L]

I think they are more likely English whites everyone calls the Texas A&M quail but from some reading and watching videos the A&M’s have all white meat and apparently according to one guy if you have A&M’s you know you do because you have proof of lineage or something or other just regurgitating some information I found

I think your right that they have english whites or reccesive whites not A&M. Easy enough to tell. @Maiahr are the birds solid white or do they have Any color? I have had A&M the 'all white meat' isnt true.

A&M have same meat as other coturnix. They have white skin for cleaner presenting carcass. They are a specific strain of coturnix created using birds with English White color and jumbos for size. Texas A&M bred them larger so they would develop white meat but they could only get up to almost a pound and no white meat materialized. Technically a person doesn't have A&M's (which are jumbo sized) unless they know their birds come from that strain. Most people actually have English Whites (which are not usually jumbo sized).

 

[Maiahr]

This is an Italian female on the bottom right, correct?
What do you call the dark one?

Haha, Italian we call Manchurian and the more she grows the lighter she becomes. She was more yellowish when baby now more pale color. The dark one - I guess Rosetta...

The dark one is called a Rosetta, sometimes referred to as 'British Range'. There is a lot of light exposure on the photograph so I'm unable to tell if it's the Barred Rosetta, which is built on the basic Rosetta coloring pattern but with distinctive barring. Rosetta's are a very pretty variety. They have a rich russet rose base color for their feathers complemented by white streaks, and black dots with orange/rust highlights. Both male and female look the same in this color so you cannot feather sex them, only vent sexing works for sure (or witnessing them laying an egg). In my flock of quail, the Rosetta's are always the fat girls, they weight the same as my other color varieties, but they tend to hold their feathers more poofed out and so they look bigger.

Which ones have pink toes? Rosettas or Tibetan?

I have these two dark things.
I think one is Rosetta and one Tibetan.
I'm not sure yet though.

One has white on the lower neck?

I think your right that they have english whites or reccesive whites not A&M. Easy enough to tell. @Maiahr are the birds solid white or do they have Any color? I have had A&M the 'all white meat' isnt true.

Oh yes, nobody is saying anything about the meat..
What Sara says below fully correct, except we DO have Texas A&M here - my male was almost 500 grams before the dog killed him.

A&M have same meat as other coturnix. They have white skin for cleaner presenting carcass. They are a specific strain of coturnix created using birds with English White color and jumbos for size. Texas A&M bred them larger so they would develop white meat but they could only get up to almost a pound and no white meat materialized. Technically a person doesn't have A&M's (which are jumbo sized) unless they know their birds come from that strain. Most people actually have English Whites (which are not usually jumbo sized).

Thank you, very good clarification. we do have both here- the English whites and the Texas A&M - much larger..

 

[Kiki]

Haha, Italian we call Manchurian and the more she grows the lighter she becomes. She was more yellowish when baby now more pale color. The dark one - I guess Rosetta...

Which ones have pink toes? Rosettas or Tibetan?

One has white on the lower neck?



Oh yes, nobody is saying anything about the meat..
What Sara says below fully correct, except we DO have Texas A&M here - my male was almost 500 grams before the dog killed him.


Thank you, very good clarification. we do have both here- the English whites and the Texas A&M - much larger..

It won't turn around and face the camera right now but yes this one has a little white bib. A little white under his neck.
I am calling it a Tibetan for now. I also think it's a boy.

 

[Kiki]

Haha, Italian we call Manchurian and the more she grows the lighter she becomes. She was more yellowish when baby now more pale color. The dark one - I guess Rosetta...

Which ones have pink toes? Rosettas or Tibetan?

One has white on the lower neck?



Oh yes, nobody is saying anything about the meat..
What Sara says below fully correct, except we DO have Texas A&M here - my male was almost 500 grams before the dog killed him.


Thank you, very good clarification. we do have both here- the English whites and the Texas A&M - much larger..

I think Italians and Golden Manchurians are the same thing here. I'm not sure though.

 

[Maiahr]

I am calling it a Tibetan for now. I also think it's a boy.]

If it has white shouldn't it be Tibetan Tuxedo?

I think Italians and Golden Manchurians are the same thing here. I'm not sure though.

I think so too..the same.
@Tycine1 Here is a close up picture of the (I think) Rosetta.
And the Manchurian hen is not so gold anymore... Both are hens and 42 days now.

 

[ShrekDawg]

@Nabiki Wake up!

3 more during the night.
Edit: 2 blondies and a jumbo are what hatched during the night. The pointy end pipper hasn't moved. I rather expect that it won't. The early pipper hasn't done anything either, so that one isn't going to hatch.

I'm up! Had to feed the cats and check the quail. I overslept a bit, but it's still only 5:30 here.

This is what has hatched so far.View attachment 1928902

Overslept!?

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I think Italians and Golden Manchurians are the same thing here. I'm not sure though.

They're very similar but they're technically they're the result of different genes at the same locus (there's a yellow, a fawn-1, and a fawn-2 at minimum in the same spot, and birds can have a maximum of 2 alleles made up of any combination of those).

You can just call them all "goldens" and circumvent the need to be more specific.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

It won't turn around and face the camera right now but yes this one has a little white bib. A little white under his neck.
I am calling it a Tibetan for now. I also think it's a boy.View attachment 1928977 View attachment 1928978 View attachment 1928979

I love your redhead And I've still got no idea what all your weird lacey silver-things are but they're gorgeous. I hope you get at least one hen to keep...

 

[Nabiki]

Overslept!?

I'm normally up around 4:30. I slept until almost 5 this morning.

I'm on a more normal work shift these days, but I spent enough years working from 5AM - 2PM that I got used to the hours.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I'm normally up around 4:30. I slept until almost 5 this morning.

I'm on a more normal work shift these days, but I spent enough years working from 5AM - 2PM that I got used to the hours.

OMG wow that is so early!!

That makes sense though. My brother was on third shift for a while, technically like 11-7, but management had to get there early so it was always more like 10-8. Anyway, he’s finally just now gonna be starting first shift soon.