CoturnixComplex
Crowing
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If all goes well I will be setting eggs from the following breeding groups the second week in November, once their dedicated shed is finished and filled. I JUST finished moving everyone around, they don't seem to be murdering each other as of yet, and now I've just got to wait for most of the eggs to be fertilized by the new boyfriends. I will probably jinx myself and a weasel will break in and eat half of them before then, but oh well.
I will probably keep basically every charcoal/grau-fee type offspring to maturity to grade them, as that's the direction I'm moving most of my breeding program towards, but I'm also hoping to get just a handful more of silver/blue/pearl hens to hang onto as well as replacements for a few of my birds with the more unique genes before they age out.
charcoal/grau-fee roo x charcoal/grau-fee hen
I am trying to get one more hatch out of this guy before he calls it quits.
I already kind of have to goad him into breeding with another male next door. I have not gotten any offspring from him with quite the same patterning but the daughter I am crossing him onto comes the closest.
roux dilute roo x charcoal/grau-fee hen
A son of my "sandy" hen crossed onto his aunt/her sister, who is massive and sassy and also one of my best layers. This male should theoretically throw all auto-sexing hatches. Forgive the terrible photos of the male; they scream at me if I wake them this time of night so I will replace them with better ones tomorrow if I'm able.
charcoal/grau-fee roo roo x "sandy"[charcoal + roux dilute] and pearl-fee hens
Another nephew x aunt pairing, half-brother and full sister respectively to the above pairing, along with an unrelated pearl-fee hen. The "sandy" is my favorite hen! She is the largest quail I own by a good bit and lays the largest eggs too. The pearl-fee hen is mostly in with them because she is a terror and they're the only ones she tolerates at all. Let's pretend this last picture is sweet! I think she was about to peck him.
pearl-fee roo x falb-fee "curly" [better photo coming soon]and falb-fee w/ white primaries [photo coming soon] hens
The third of my youngest generation of homebred males, all brothers and half-brothers. The first falb-fee hen is an extremely large, slightly curly-feathered hen and the second is a pretty pullet with white primaries I got from one of my newer batches of purchases.
marbled charcoal/grau-fee roo x charcoal/grau-fee and blue+red hens
This is an older male I was a hair away from eating before he popped all these nutty red/orange feathers. Now he's in with a hatch-mate and the last of my hens from an unrelated line. They're all older so fingers crossed again on these ones. I'm gonna be so mad if I can't get babies from him.
pearl-fee roo x blue tuxedo [photo coming soon] and falb-fee hens
This guy sired all three of my newest generation of breeding males, and I've got him paired with two young females from a new sources, including a very pretty mottled blue tux hen.
silver partial tux w/ white primaries roo x golden italian hens
One of these pairings popped out the nice pearl-fee male above along with a bunch of huge, fancy colored siblings, so I'm getting one last round of eggs from them and throwing her sister into the mix too.
silver-type partial tux w/ white primaries roo x pharaoh hen
This hen is the mother of all of my nice beefy charcoal sisters, and I have her paired now with a young silver male from a newer source. The roo is distinctly differently shaded than my other silver-types so I'm curious to learn more about what actual genetics he's carrying.
I will probably keep basically every charcoal/grau-fee type offspring to maturity to grade them, as that's the direction I'm moving most of my breeding program towards, but I'm also hoping to get just a handful more of silver/blue/pearl hens to hang onto as well as replacements for a few of my birds with the more unique genes before they age out.
charcoal/grau-fee roo x charcoal/grau-fee hen
I am trying to get one more hatch out of this guy before he calls it quits.
I already kind of have to goad him into breeding with another male next door. I have not gotten any offspring from him with quite the same patterning but the daughter I am crossing him onto comes the closest.
roux dilute roo x charcoal/grau-fee hen
A son of my "sandy" hen crossed onto his aunt/her sister, who is massive and sassy and also one of my best layers. This male should theoretically throw all auto-sexing hatches. Forgive the terrible photos of the male; they scream at me if I wake them this time of night so I will replace them with better ones tomorrow if I'm able.
charcoal/grau-fee roo roo x "sandy"[charcoal + roux dilute] and pearl-fee hens
Another nephew x aunt pairing, half-brother and full sister respectively to the above pairing, along with an unrelated pearl-fee hen. The "sandy" is my favorite hen! She is the largest quail I own by a good bit and lays the largest eggs too. The pearl-fee hen is mostly in with them because she is a terror and they're the only ones she tolerates at all. Let's pretend this last picture is sweet! I think she was about to peck him.
pearl-fee roo x falb-fee "curly" [better photo coming soon]and falb-fee w/ white primaries [photo coming soon] hens
The third of my youngest generation of homebred males, all brothers and half-brothers. The first falb-fee hen is an extremely large, slightly curly-feathered hen and the second is a pretty pullet with white primaries I got from one of my newer batches of purchases.
marbled charcoal/grau-fee roo x charcoal/grau-fee and blue+red hens
This is an older male I was a hair away from eating before he popped all these nutty red/orange feathers. Now he's in with a hatch-mate and the last of my hens from an unrelated line. They're all older so fingers crossed again on these ones. I'm gonna be so mad if I can't get babies from him.
pearl-fee roo x blue tuxedo [photo coming soon] and falb-fee hens
This guy sired all three of my newest generation of breeding males, and I've got him paired with two young females from a new sources, including a very pretty mottled blue tux hen.
silver partial tux w/ white primaries roo x golden italian hens
One of these pairings popped out the nice pearl-fee male above along with a bunch of huge, fancy colored siblings, so I'm getting one last round of eggs from them and throwing her sister into the mix too.
silver-type partial tux w/ white primaries roo x pharaoh hen
This hen is the mother of all of my nice beefy charcoal sisters, and I have her paired now with a young silver male from a newer source. The roo is distinctly differently shaded than my other silver-types so I'm curious to learn more about what actual genetics he's carrying.
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Super excited to see how this turns out, especially the pearl x falb!
I can't wait till I am able to sex my silvers and English white.... I have read that Manchurian is always dominant? So not to breed them with my Golden Giants?
