Albino Quail

[Adri_San27]

Anyone know anything about albino coturnix? I got her at a quail farm. She doesn't have red eyes, but is all white. The employess get about 1 in 10,000 white chicks, when all of the parent birds are brown.

Anyone know the exact odds of getting an albino, or if it would be possible to start a line of albino quails?

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

I'm not sure if true albinos exist in the poultry world. I've seen mallards on eBay mistakenly marketed as albinos. I know when I used to breed bearded dragons that I had hypomelanistic and leucistic dragons which were white with clear fingernails. Those dragons had golden eyes. I know there are a few people working on true albino beardies but the survivability of those hatchlings has been 0%

 

[lagpmgdsls]

what you have is a Texas A&M coturnix quail.....quite common actually.

 

[Adri_San27]

I don't think it's a Texas A&M... I actually have one of those, this new bird doesn't have the characteristic black smudges on the head. Not to mention I got this from a quail farm that exclusively breeds the standard brown coturnix. They hatch roughly 3000 chicks every week and only every couple weeks there's a white one mixed in. They usually cull them as uniformity is desired from their clients, so they're not allowed to breed into the mix.

 

[Highland Moongazer]

Sounds like their parent stock has mixed genetics some place along the line.

One of my A&Ms hatched with no spots, and a few only have a feather or two that are normal colored. I think Monarc was trying to breed out the spots there for a while, too... not sure.

 

[deerman]

There was albino coturnix(pink eyes) back in the late 60s. Not sure if any are still around, the other whites were english white.

 

[Adri_San27]

Wow that's kind of disappointing to hear that my quail isn't special! I've been going every Monday to the quail farm for weeks now on hatching days, looking for a white chick. Does anyone know what happened to the real (pink-eyed) albinos??

 

[deerman]

I had a few back then, Marsh Farms was sold I think. The true albino, fell away because the english white were easier to raise.

I sold out of all mine, back in the 70s.

 

[JJMR794]

Quote:
NO WHAT YOU HAVE IS AN ENGLISH WHITE.... ALBINOS LACK ALL PIGMENT AND THEREFORE HAVE RED/ PINK EYES...

 

[Ironsun]

Hi,

As far as I know, Albino of any species have red eyes and no colour pigments, if your bird has black eyes and white then thats what you got, not an albino.

I recently bred a red eyed white bird, that is not a albino as when it gets older has coloured patches. I expect I could breed out the coloured patches but it still would not be a "True albino"

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=248045

Ironsun.