A quail of a different color???

[shelleyd2008]

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That is either a red or rosetta tux

 

[shelleyd2008]

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That is not a cinnamon, it is a rosetta.

 

[shelleyd2008]

This pic has a red and a red tuxedo, both tibetans

And this one has a cinnamon in the back left

Here they are as babies, reds in the front, cinnamons back left and back right.

This has 2 rosetta tuxedos in the center, surrounded by dark tibetan tuxedos. There are also a few goldens in the pic.

This has 4 tuxedos, 2 rosetta and 2 dark tibetan. The rosettas are the front right and middle ones

This pic has a baby rosetta tibetan in the back middle. There are a bunch of whites in the corner, then a black one facing away, a black one looking to the right, then the rosetta is looking towards the left. The black (dark tibetan tux) and rosetta look to be facing each other

A cinnamon looks just like a brown, though it is a bit lighter or washed-out. A rosetta is a rusty-red color, usually with black lines on the back. You didn't mention what color your birds are, that would help with deciding what you have.

 

[crash0330]

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That is not a cinnamon, it is a rosetta.

Oh my bad. I'm new to coturnix.

 

[GBov]

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Suspect Fuzz Ball

Spizz for short!

Am now suspecting that the 9 females and 3 males I was sold are actually 6 females and 6 males

The guy I bought them from doesnt mind my bringing them back and swoping them out but he is way the heck out of the way.

 

[JJMR794]

How Did He Sex Them As Chicks?

 

[GBov]

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No, just grabbed them out of the pen saying "This one is a boy, this is a girl, boy, boy, girl, how many is that now? We need some more girls, girl, girl, boy, girl!"

I couldnt tell the difference at that speed and even now I have to pick up a few to do a comparison survey lol. I thought I had it down to two males to 9 females but nope, its about one to one right now. Have just e-mailed him to see if I can come over next week and switch them out. Thats if he has any left, that is.

And whats the normal coturnix color called? Thats what I have. A slight difference in sizes with my adults but they all look alike to me.

Little Spizz is doing just fine and have my fingers crossed for it and the rest. Are they more delicate than chicken chicks? They seem about the same so far, just teency. The plan is to keep four or five of the biggest girls for breeders and eat the rest. At the moment there are two dinners worth of quail in the brooder

Just gave my breeders a big pile of cut cat briars and muscadines to play in and eat teh tips and cover in from the heat for the weekend. Its supposed to be hot hot hot and stormy so dont want them to keep laying all their eggs where the pen gets teh wettest.

 

[GBov]

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How odd, you seem to be holding my odd ball bird

the second picture is just like it! I THINK Oddball is a girl but how does one tell with Cinnamons?

And no odd balls in my second hatch (32 out of 39 eggs woooo hoooo) so still wondering where it came from. Do random color changes just show up? Have seen the parent birds of my parent birds and even some of their parents and they all are cookie cut out quail.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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How odd, you seem to be holding my odd ball bird

the second picture is just like it! I THINK Oddball is a girl but how does one tell with Cinnamons?

And no odd balls in my second hatch (32 out of 39 eggs woooo hoooo) so still wondering where it came from. Do random color changes just show up? Have seen the parent birds of my parent birds and even some of their parents and they all are cookie cut out quail.

Apparently you didn't read the rest of the thread. That is not a cinnamon, it is a rosetta tuxedo. They can only be sexed by vent sexing. The males, if breeding, will have a gland at the base of their tail, near the vent. When you push on this gland a white foam will come out.

 

[GBov]

So just vent sexing eh?

Bother! Havnt managed that one yet