Coturnix Chick Colors

[eveliens]

Anyone want to help me ID the chick colors I got from the HAL auction @muddy75 organized

I tried to pull out one of each color type I could find but there's like 45 chicks running around so there's probably a color but most are either these colors or tux of these colors.

a. black top with yellow underbelly -black tux?
b. red chick with yellow underbelly - rosetta? scarlet?
c. silver stripes on yellow
d. same as C but lighter
e. almost solid black? brown face markings no underbelly
f. wild?
g. white?
h. same as f but lighter?

I question the wild and white because my buttons that appeared wild and silver ended up being golden pearl and cinnamon when the feathers grew in haha.

Thanks.

 

[muddy75]

Anyone want to help me ID the chick colors I got from the HAL auction @muddy75 organized View attachment 3070029

I tried to pull out one of each color type I could find but there's like 45 chicks running around so there's probably a color but most are either these colors or tux of these colors.

a. black top with yellow underbelly -black tux?
b. red chick with yellow underbelly - rosetta? scarlet?
c. silver stripes on yellow
d. same as C but lighter
e. almost solid black? brown face markings no underbelly
f. wild?
g. white?
h. same as f but lighter?

I question the wild and white because my buttons that appeared wild and silver ended up being golden pearl and cinnamon when the feathers grew in haha.

Thanks.

a&e are tibetan
B red range
C,d italians
F pharoah
G dotted white
H egyptian

 

[muddy75]

Congratulations on a great hatch!

 

[Kiki]

Anyone want to help me ID the chick colors I got from the HAL auction @muddy75 organized View attachment 3070029

I tried to pull out one of each color type I could find but there's like 45 chicks running around so there's probably a color but most are either these colors or tux of these colors.

a. black top with yellow underbelly -black tux?
b. red chick with yellow underbelly - rosetta? scarlet?
c. silver stripes on yellow
d. same as C but lighter
e. almost solid black? brown face markings no underbelly
f. wild?
g. white?
h. same as f but lighter?

I question the wild and white because my buttons that appeared wild and silver ended up being golden pearl and cinnamon when the feathers grew in haha.

Thanks.

You got black dummies from Myshire!?

 

[eveliens]

You got black dummies from Myshire!?

I'm not sure what the black one is - when I was searching threads yesterday someone had something similar and it ended up being a very dark Tibetan. But someone else suggested there is also the possibility of black marking genes being double expressed - is that the black dummy? There is a second chick that is very similar but he has gray-ish markings and his wing tips are colored in addition to his face. They are both noticeably much darker than the others - even my housemates pointed it out and asked why they were so different LOL

a&e are tibetan
B red range
C,d italians
F pharoah
G dotted white
H egyptian

Congratulations on a great hatch!

Thanks! I was looking at all these chicks and had a flashback to my reptile group on facebook. Ball pythons have soooooooo many morphs and to the untrained eye they all look veeerry similar. I'm a fish gal - I can tell 3 almost identical tetras apart but I'm new to domestic quail. I need to start sorting them so I can sell the ones I'm not keeping sooner rather than later so my brooder isn't too crowded. The weather has been really unpredictable this year, so they're in the laundry room brooder instead of outside in the side yard brooder, and it is a little cramped for 40+ coturnix and 5 button quail chicks.

My family is going to be sad about A losing his striking markings. That's the one they liked the most. They call him Penguin. I figured C and D were the same but I wasn't sure because with the buttons my lighter chicks of the same color ended up being a completely different color when they feathered out.

And thanks! I had 60 from the auction and 20 from some eggs I purchased on ebay (about a month prior to the auction I'd purchased them and felt too bad about it cancel so I just had a LOT of eggs). USPS crunched some eggs, my automatic turner crunched some jumbo eggs before I put them in the chicken sized one, there were a handful of infertile ones and 1 early quitter/dud. I put 64 into lockdown and about 50-ish hatched.

Unfortunately, I lost the tail end of the hatch to an incubator failure over Easter while I was at family's so I lost a bunch (the snake is having the time of his life so I don't feel as bad about losing the littles - at least their bad luck was another's fortune) and have 1 iffy wry neck one I assisted out. I'm giving the remaining eggs today to hatch but I think they are done. I like to do egg-topsies, so I want to give enough time there are no bloody surprises, yikes.

Meanwhile, I have 52 gambel's quail eggs sitting on the dining room table waiting to go in the incubator Most aren't going to be viable (parents got freaked out by the weather/storms and abandoned the nests) but I'm hoping for a handful those those guys. I also have 3 chicks momma button hatched and 7 juvenile buttons in the outdoor brooder that are feathering out enough to be sexed so I can hopefully rehome them soon. There are quail and eggs everywhere!

 

[eveliens]

Well, 1 of the two very dark chicks definitely looks dark range tibetian now that his feathers are coming in (along with a bunch of other chicks), but the other 1 is still black. I ended up with 39 healthy chicks (and 1 little disabled one), so there are definitely some funky colors developing in there, particularly with the red ones.

 

[FloorCandy]

I'm not sure what the black one is - when I was searching threads yesterday someone had something similar and it ended up being a very dark Tibetan. But someone else suggested there is also the possibility of black marking genes being double expressed - is that the black dummy? There is a second chick that is very similar but he has gray-ish markings and his wing tips are colored in addition to his face. They are both noticeably much darker than the others - even my housemates pointed it out and asked why they were so different LOL



Thanks! I was looking at all these chicks and had a flashback to my reptile group on facebook. Ball pythons have soooooooo many morphs and to the untrained eye they all look veeerry similar. I'm a fish gal - I can tell 3 almost identical tetras apart but I'm new to domestic quail. I need to start sorting them so I can sell the ones I'm not keeping sooner rather than later so my brooder isn't too crowded. The weather has been really unpredictable this year, so they're in the laundry room brooder instead of outside in the side yard brooder, and it is a little cramped for 40+ coturnix and 5 button quail chicks.

My family is going to be sad about A losing his striking markings. That's the one they liked the most. They call him Penguin. I figured C and D were the same but I wasn't sure because with the buttons my lighter chicks of the same color ended up being a completely different color when they feathered out.

And thanks! I had 60 from the auction and 20 from some eggs I purchased on ebay (about a month prior to the auction I'd purchased them and felt too bad about it cancel so I just had a LOT of eggs). USPS crunched some eggs, my automatic turner crunched some jumbo eggs before I put them in the chicken sized one, there were a handful of infertile ones and 1 early quitter/dud. I put 64 into lockdown and about 50-ish hatched.

Unfortunately, I lost the tail end of the hatch to an incubator failure over Easter while I was at family's so I lost a bunch (the snake is having the time of his life so I don't feel as bad about losing the littles - at least their bad luck was another's fortune) and have 1 iffy wry neck one I assisted out. I'm giving the remaining eggs today to hatch but I think they are done. I like to do egg-topsies, so I want to give enough time there are no bloody surprises, yikes.

Meanwhile, I have 52 gambel's quail eggs sitting on the dining room table waiting to go in the incubator Most aren't going to be viable (parents got freaked out by the weather/storms and abandoned the nests) but I'm hoping for a handful those those guys. I also have 3 chicks momma button hatched and 7 juvenile buttons in the outdoor brooder that are feathering out enough to be sexed so I can hopefully rehome them soon. There are quail and eggs everywhere!

I think d has fee, so it is a pearl. If they were from Myshire your black ones are probably tibetan. There are some hatcheries with black but I don’t remember seeing Myshire offering them. The black Coturnix that most people have seen and talked about originated from k dale Coturnix, but now several hatcheries offer them. I have 1 from a mixed group from k dale and a group I bought from Garrie Landry of zebrafinch.com. You’ll see your little guy will start looking like he has some cocoa highlights and tints as he feathers out.

 

[eveliens]

I think d has fee, so it is a pearl. If they were from Myshire your black ones are probably tibetan. There are some hatcheries with black but I don’t remember seeing Myshire offering them. The black Coturnix that most people have seen and talked about originated from k dale Coturnix, but now several hatcheries offer them. I have 1 from a mixed group from k dale and a group I bought from Garrie Landry of zebrafinch.com. You’ll see your little guy will start looking like he has some cocoa highlights and tints as he feathers out.

I'm going to assume he's tibetian, although not all the chicks are from Myshire. I purchased a mixed egg lot from another breeder prior to winning the auctions here. The eggs all went in at the same time but USPS really scrambled up the other seller's eggs and most of the chicks are Myshire. That seller was offering primarily snowy, silver, pansy and pearl, so it is entirely possibly that one is a pearl. Out of the 40 chicks, I'd say the majority are tuxedo and/or redrange then english white/white spotted then a mix of other common colors. I don't care for white animals, so it makes it easier to sell the chicks as chicks. I'm only planning to keep a handful and I like the tibetian coloring, so there's a good chance I'll keep one of the 2 if they're hens.

 

[msmaynard]

One of my 'Italians' turned out to be pearl and another is silver. Was hoping the paler stripes meant pearl and surprised that a striped chick could turn out be silver.

Too bad the Tuxedos don't always have the completely white waistcoat but mine is making up for it by having a great personality. Still waiting to see how her head turns out, still pins up there now. Sure would love it if she could keep the cute baby penguin head.

My first quail. One good thing, you don't have long to wait before you have a clue as to the color will be. One bad thing, the attitude changes so fast. The pearl is the biggest brat who is constantly plotting how to escape and she's only 2.5 weeks old. She nearly made it out last night but navigation was off and she was 3" too far east.

 

[eveliens]

One of my 'Italians' turned out to be pearl and another is silver. Was hoping the paler stripes meant pearl and surprised that a striped chick could turn out be silver.

Too bad the Tuxedos don't always have the completely white waistcoat but mine is making up for it by having a great personality. Still waiting to see how her head turns out, still pins up there now. Sure would love it if she could keep the cute baby penguin head.

My first quail. One good thing, you don't have long to wait before you have a clue as to the color will be. One bad thing, the attitude changes so fast. The pearl is the biggest brat who is constantly plotting how to escape and she's only 2.5 weeks old. She nearly made it out last night but navigation was off and she was 3" too far east.

They're starting to get in feathers, and I believe I actually have 3 pearls, maybe 4. And 2 or 3 Italians. There are actually more obvious color difference now that they're getting feathers, so I might have another post up soon haha.
They definitely are starting to outgrow the cute baby personalities and there are several that like to escape when I open the door for food/water. Mine jump back in though when they realize they're alone. I have an outdoor pen with a brooder plate ready for them, so they can start acclimizing and do some bird-y things like digging and hunting bugs.