Can anyone tell me the gender of this quail?

Is this quail a female or a male?

  • Male

  • Female


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Zuhayr Mubtasim

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So on 22 october 2019,I bought 3 quails (1 male and 2 females).I am confused if this quail is a male or a female. This quail has little spots and 20191103_223202.jpg I am assuming it's a female but let me know please.
 

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Looks like a male to me. Check the vents. Mature Coturnix quail are fairly easy to sex by looking at their vents. Males will have a large "swollen" bump above their vents, the females will not.
 
There are now so many color variations that sexing by color/color pattern is not always accurate/easy. You may have to listen for crowing or egg production. These quail mature quickly you won't have to wait long.
 
Rust on the chest with almost no speckling. If this bird is pharoah colored, then my vote is cock.
Vent sexing is easy to do with coturnix quail. Hold the bird in your dominant hand (they're quite strong and can easily fight their way out of a less than firm grip), with your index finger on one side of their neck and your middle finger on the other side of their neck, and their backside snuggled into the palm of your hand, give them a gentle yet firm squeeze to secure them. This grip allows for their very powerful legs to kick fruitlessly and will give you more visibility when you flip the bird upside down, with it's breast facing upwards to facilitate the examination. With your non-dominant hand, move the feathers away from the vent. A sexually mature cock will have a large bulbous, and usually rosy colored growth near his vent; very gentle squeezing between two fingers of this gland near the vent of a mature male should produce white foamy semen. If the bird in your hand doesn't have this bulb and doesn't produce semen when carefully squeezed, then it is either not sexually mature or it's a hen.
If the bird in hand is either sexually immature or a hen, you can recheck weekly until it either lays an egg, crows, or produces semen.
 

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