Celadon quail

[Proj]

Hi all, I just started raising quail and one of them started laying pretty, solid blue eggs . Never heard of them so I found this forum in google search. Awesome info . Is there anything I should know or do differently with this quail? Thanks!
Currently we have been, nigerian dwarf goats, quail, ducks, chicken, a miniature horse and a duroc pig . Funny what moving from the suburbs to a piece of land will get you doing .

 

[Proj]

On a side note, all of the other quail were pecking this one's head toot it started bleeding . We had to separate her . I wonder if they sensed the difference in her genetics.

 

[paneubert]

What kind of quail? I am suspicious that the solid blue eggs might be coming from a bobwhite and not a coturnix. Mostly due to the aggression you are seeing, and the fact that bobwhites are usually solid white eggs. So going from solid white to solid blue is less off a jump than mottled brownish to solid blue.

 

[Proj]

It's a Texas A&M jumbo . It's last egg yesterday was twice the size of the usual jumbo coturniks . I might have to hatch these, lol.

 

[Sara L]

It's a Texas A&M jumbo . It's last egg yesterday was twice the size of the usual jumbo coturniks . I might have to hatch these, lol.

Are the other birds the same color, or is this one the only one of that color? Quail can be "racist" and attack or try to drive away quail that aren't the same color as they grew up with.

 

[Urbanduckfarmer]

Some of the coturnix carry that gene that allow them to produce blue eggs. It's a beautiful addition to collecting all the speckled ones. What's your male to female ratio? That may be the issue with the head pecking and bleeding. Is she housed with coturnix as well?