Coturnix Chick Colors

[eveliens]

@muddy75 & @FloorCandy if you guys don't mind lending your expertise now that feathers are coming in:

Ignore the X's those are button quail. I'm slowly getting the hang of some of the colors but still a little confused.

^ I'm pretty sure the pearl is a pearl but what is this other funky fawn color for A? Golden Italian?

B is very similar to the blue-grays (shown in first pic) but quite the same. Are there multiple silvers? Dilutes? The guy in the dish is very muted but still blue-gray. If understand correctly there are several "blue"/silver colors caused by different genetics.

(also my little black one now has cocoa feathers as you can see )

 

[FloorCandy]

The gray one in the bowl (b)can be any flavor of gray, such as silver(SSC), Blau, or lavender. There’s no real way to know for sure without knowing the genetics of the parents.

(A)looks like autumn amber with fee. Autumn amber is Italian and roux.

Top left looks tibetan, below that looks like snowie with fee, to the right of the tibetan up top looks like egyptian fee, below that Rosetta, up top again looks like tibetan or rosetta, next to that looks like tibetan tux, below that pearl, and then red range tux.

Based on how my various grays have turned out, I’d say b might be blau. The top one could be anything, but my Blaus from k dale had that darker undertone. I have no experience with lavender.

 

[eveliens]

The gray one in the bowl (b)can be any flavor of gray, such as silver(SSC), Blau, or lavender. There’s no real way to know for sure without knowing the genetics of the parents.

(A)looks like autumn amber with fee. Autumn amber is Italian and roux.

Top left looks tibetan, below that looks like snowie with fee, to the right of the tibetan up top looks like egyptian fee, below that Rosetta, up top again looks like tibetan or rosetta, next to that looks like tibetan tux, below that pearl, and then red range tux.

Based on how my various grays have turned out, I’d say b might be blau. The top one could be anything, but my Blaus from k dale had that darker undertone. I have no experience with lavender.

I actually thought autumn amber first but I was under the impression the color was a bit rarer than others. I'd be really happy if it is an autumn; it is a really pretty color.

Thank you - I assumed some of them were fees. Still chugging through reading about the genetics. There are a lot of colors.

 

[muddy75]

Autumn amber is a possibility in the variety you received. I agree you have some snowies in there and black/white ? Is either pearl or pansy fee (it’s difficult for me to tell difference in the 2). Top ? Is Egyptian and most of your other color labels appear correct for Tibetan/Rosetta etc.

 

[eveliens]

Autumn amber is a possibility in the variety you received. I agree you have some snowies in there and black/white ? Is either pearl or pansy fee (it’s difficult for me to tell difference in the 2). Top ? Is Egyptian and most of your other color labels appear correct for Tibetan/Rosetta etc.

Thanks! The black/white is very clear with a lot of contrast if that helps - I know that doesn't always come through on photos. I tried to do indirect sunlight to get more accurate colors but haha they all ran for cover because my chickens were being noisy and causing problems. I thought top ? was an Egyptian, although I sold most of the wild-type looking chicks as well as the whites, he must have slipped through and that's why there's only 1 or 2 of that color left.

Currently waiting for them to be sexable then I'll decide and sell down to the breeding groups I want to keep I'll probably do 1 more color check when they're fully feathered and I can get individual shots on the few I don't know.

Yesterday, they went outside perm. (I'd been putting them out during the day then bringing them in at night) to live their best little lives in the growout pen with the brooder plate and are loving it - and so am I Love chicks, hate indoor brooding. So glad they can go out so soon, unlike my buttons and gambels. Hoping to have a fully outdoor brooder this summer for when these guys start laying.

 

[muddy75]

Thanks! The black/white is very clear with a lot of contrast if that helps - I know that doesn't always come through on photos. I tried to do indirect sunlight to get more accurate colors but haha they all ran for cover because my chickens were being noisy and causing problems. I thought top ? was an Egyptian, although I sold most of the wild-type looking chicks as well as the whites, he must have slipped through and that's why there's only 1 or 2 of that color left.

Currently waiting for them to be sexable then I'll decide and sell down to the breeding groups I want to keep I'll probably do 1 more color check when they're fully feathered and I can get individual shots on the few I don't know.

Yesterday, they went outside perm. (I'd been putting them out during the day then bringing them in at night) to live their best little lives in the growout pen with the brooder plate and are loving it - and so am I Love chicks, hate indoor brooding. So glad they can go out so soon, unlike my buttons and gambels. Hoping to have a fully outdoor brooder this summer for when these guys start laying.

Most likely pansy fee

 

[FloorCandy]

Thanks! The black/white is very clear with a lot of contrast if that helps - I know that doesn't always come through on photos. I tried to do indirect sunlight to get more accurate colors but haha they all ran for cover because my chickens were being noisy and causing problems. I thought top ? was an Egyptian, although I sold most of the wild-type looking chicks as well as the whites, he must have slipped through and that's why there's only 1 or 2 of that color left.

Currently waiting for them to be sexable then I'll decide and sell down to the breeding groups I want to keep I'll probably do 1 more color check when they're fully feathered and I can get individual shots on the few I don't know.

Yesterday, they went outside perm. (I'd been putting them out during the day then bringing them in at night) to live their best little lives in the growout pen with the brooder plate and are loving it - and so am I Love chicks, hate indoor brooding. So glad they can go out so soon, unlike my buttons and gambels. Hoping to have a fully outdoor brooder this summer for when these guys start laying.

I think the pearl is a pansy faker. It looks like pansy but it’s really pearl made with Italian and range pattern. The only way to know for sure is to breed it to a non speckled bird, like a Tibetan, and if no chicks are speckled it’s probably pansy because pansy is recessive, if any chicks have speckles, it isn’t pansy. Then to be sure, if no chicks were speckled, cross the original back to its chicks and see if you get more speckled chicks. If you do, you know for certain it’s a pansy.

 

[eveliens]

I think the pearl is a pansy faker. It looks like pansy but it’s really pearl made with Italian and range pattern. The only way to know for sure is to breed it to a non speckled bird, like a Tibetan, and if no chicks are speckled it’s probably pansy because pansy is recessive, if any chicks have speckles, it isn’t pansy. Then to be sure, if no chicks were speckled, cross the original back to its chicks and see if you get more speckled chicks. If you do, you know for certain it’s a pansy.

Neat! I'll keep that in mind when I decide which breeders to keep. Going to do a second sort today to pull out some to sell now that they're almost fully feathered. Might snap some pics of the leftover Funky Ones for you guys to ID! Have to start clearing the brooder out to make way for the gambel's due to hatch soon.

 

[eveliens]

@FloorCandy would you like to take a stab at "Quasimodo" the only survivor of the incubator crash? S/He has been developing very slowly but is now showing enough feathers to photograph. The colors are white and dark gray - not as dark as the Pansy [Faker] but much darker than the others earlier in the thread.

Also I think you're right that "b" is a blau now that he's almost fully feathered. It is definitely a distinct color from the "silvers." I have two more that are blue-fawn as well.

 

[muddy75]

@FloorCandy would you like to take a stab at "Quasimodo" the only survivor of the incubator crash? S/He has been developing very slowly but is now showing enough feathers to photograph. The colors are white and dark gray - not as dark as the Pansy [Faker] but much darker than the others earlier in the thread.
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Also I think you're right that "b" is a blau now that he's almost fully feathered. It is definitely a distinct color from the "silvers." I have two more that are blue-fawn as well.

That’s a Pearl