Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

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awesooommme do you talk to your SIL enough to ask him where he got his main lines from? Cuz if it's not from anywhere i got any ofmine from I deffinatly wanna buy or swap from you lol!

Yeppers your lovely boy is a wild, blue faceds dont have the cinnamon breast (that's actually called red or rust in them *im sucha nerd sorry lol*) they have blackish feathers and blue blue blue,with no bib markings---but if they did have bib markings they'd not be outlined in black. Some blue faced males have red tail feather like i'll be showin ya in pics ina second but some are solid blue while others are blue with black wings and such. Wilds are patterned al ot prettier i just like the solid blue on blue faceds...the blue on wild males is a pretty irridecent almost color too compaired to the blue on the blue faceds.

hold on let me get you a picture of my wild male I had:

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the dead giveaway is the irredecence, the bib markings of black, that mean it's a wild colored male

as opposed to the look of the blue faceds;
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these pics i took from my genetic button quail group wellit's not MY group but im apart of it...some of these breeders helped produced these new colors
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i lurv both and i do think you're right about real blue as opposed to grey on other animals i love the grey "Blue' too on mammals thoughim a blue freak
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Well, alllrighty then! I learned something new today! I have no idea where she got her original birds from and she probably wouldn't know if I asked her. She goes to alot of shows and also buys and sells at local flea markets. They breed all kinds of birds and have an outdoor aviary. I guess you can do that in SC...but not here. She does have beautiful birds.
 
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OH THAT'S SO PRETTY!!!! I love the pattern of the feathers!!! But I sure wouldn't have called that a blue face!! Guess it's all in the genes.

yep when bred to a blue faced male she'd pop out girlies that looked like her and boys that looked like a blue faced male....but im almost positive you dont need a blue faced to get blue faces just so they carry the gene....which your male STILL could carry blue face
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herrm! welp! good enough for me....let me know in the spring if/when you have eggs avail...and if you'd sell a low number of like 25 to me i'dbe all happy n' stuff lol. I'd even trade for some of mine if you'd like...up to you....springs far from here yet ha ha!
 
This is my idol that I look up to in the button quail world (she also has coturnix's or did i forget but i know she also did raise them atleast).....her names Jodi..she's been breding BQs for 30 years....and she has a nice site up with a few of the mutations you can get buttosn is she has great pictures of wilds, blue faces, cinnamons and other colors i just found out about it tonight andwanted to share:

http://brackenridgeranch.farming.officelive.com/brackencolors.aspx
 
Oh those silvers are so pretty! I think she messed up on the position of the blue faced male though, unless I have my lefts and rights mixed up!
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