Coturnix chick with white on wing

[workindog]

Hi everyone, im somewhat new to the forum. Joined a while ago when i was thinking about getting some quail. i officially have made the leap and bought 6 quail chicks and i have 14 eggs in the incubator. (Day 4 btw and i only seen veins in 4 eggs but hey.. ya never know lol)

Anyway, one of the chicks has wings with white on them. Is this some kind of fancier marked quail?

Thanks

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[workindog]

I wondered if maybe it didnt have as many feathers as the others but when i spread a wing from another chick, it didnt have white.

Ive looked online and seen some with white, but not just on its wings.

 

[DK newbie]

I find it interesting that the white feathers still have dark tips. I don't think I've seen that in quail before. It does look somewhat unusual.

 

[workindog]

So no one else has seen this before? Im wondering if it is like a visual sign of being heterozygous to something? What are the genetics to the tuxedos? Does anyone know if they are dominant? Co-dominant? Recessive?
Either way, id like to try and pay attention to which eggs are hers and keep a male and breed him back to mom.. see if theres some weird genetics at work here..
Any ideas?

 

[Binki]

Oh wow yes never seen that before either, I don't have much experience but *maybe* they had a white quail mixed in several generations ago and it popped up just in that one area, not even affecting the tips?

 

[pkhunter]

So no one else has seen this before? Im wondering if it is like a visual sign of being heterozygous to something? What are the genetics to the tuxedos? Does anyone know if they are dominant? Co-dominant? Recessive?
Either way, id like to try and pay attention to which eggs are hers and keep a male and breed him back to mom.. see if theres some weird genetics at work here..
Any ideas?

Are your birds tuxedos or brown coturnix ? From the picture they look like browns to me.

 

[stricklandquail]

We have a flock of approx. 700 coturnix, and I haven't seen anything like that. I've certainly seen albino quail, but not since....geez....it was in the 1980s and it was just one bird.

 

[workindog]

Are your birds tuxedos or brown coturnix ?   From the picture they look like browns to me.

I was told they are pharoh. So basic browns.

 

[workindog]

I cant believe you have 700 and haven't seen this. So weird...

 

[pkhunter]

I was told they are pharoh. So basic browns.

Browns have a white recessive gene. Some of my birds have white on their wings and if you hatch enough you will sometime get one that is all white. Including a picture of a couple that are from my brown birds that will be all white.