Coturnix color questions

[Goosebaby]

I have some questions regarding color and genetics.

I hatched four chicks, sadly two passed away in the egg just before hatch, both were pharaoh. Of the four that hatched baby number three which was a pharaoh passed away after 12 hours.

Of the remaining three I have are some sort of dilute, and maybe a Fee?












The problem is I don’t have any Fees.

I know next to nothing about color genetics in quail so if anyone can tell me what I might have here that would be appreciated.


Their parents came from McMurray, at time of laying I had two Roos with all the girls, a big Pharaoh male who was a sweetie and sadly is no longer with us “he ditched out the door while I was trying to remove a female that was seriously bullying the others, and I haven’t seen him since,” and a Le Crème or Andalusian roo? Maybe something else? I don’t really know what he is, he has blue eyes if it makes a difference.







All my girls are pharaoh’s and look nearly identical, basically like this girl.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Looks like one normal pharaoh, a silver or Andalusian type (the gray one) and the third is likely Andalusian as well, fee in newly hatched chicks makes a medium yellow into a very pale yellow and is hard to tell without a normal chick as a reference. It is also a simple inheritance (you have it or you don’t) so is unlikely in your birds unless your silver types carry it. Andalusian/silver/Blau chicks are often gray or charcoal in color but not always, some can show very little sign of their true color until they feather out in a couple weeks.

 

[Goosebaby]

Looks like one normal pharaoh, a silver or Andalusian type (the gray one) and the third is likely Andalusian as well, fee in newly hatched chicks makes a medium yellow into a very pale yellow and is hard to tell without a normal chick as a reference. It is also a simple inheritance (you have it or you don’t) so is unlikely in your birds unless your silver types carry it. Andalusian/silver/Blau chicks are often gray or charcoal in color but not always, some can show very little sign of their true color until they feather out in a couple weeks.

Thank you!