Barbu de Watermael color varieties

[PHquail]

Hello, I have three young Greenfire line Barbu de Watermael roosters I would like some input on. I believe one is "quail" colored, as well as all of my current hens from this batch. The light one is much brighter white in person. The more orange one had a completely orange head as a younger chick. The Watermaels are much flightier than my Mille Fleur D'uccles were as chicks and do not like their pictures taken.

This batch had 4 roosters and 4 hens from appearances and combs. One hen broke my heart and had severe wry neck, but that is healing up with vitamin E and scrambled egg with hand feeding watered down feed for a week. My newest batch from GF has 2 with the little orange heads. 6 total chicks, no idea on sex yet.

 

[PHquail]

My phone camera yellows their colors out a bit.

 

[Amer]

Quail is an extremely variable color, but from what I saw on their page, Greenfire also has brassy back, duckwing, and columbian Watermaaels, which are like quail but a few less mutations. Also chickens that are an intermediate between those colors. Since they are very similar colors, the variety cannot be determined at this age.
But I can rule out brassy back and duckwing since they all have yellow breasts.

 

[Amer]

I think they look all quail, but there might be a gold columbian in there. That said, quail can look very columbian.

 

[CastielH]

I’m not super familiar with what colors Greenfire has in their Watermaal. It’s possible they might have mottle in some of their birds.

 

[lisa69]

Mine are quail , from Greenfire farms