Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

[paschofield]

Those are some amazing genetics!! It's too bad they didn't keep all their lines!

It was at the time of major cut backs in Canada. Universities funding was being cut. It was just one of those things.

It was amazing Genetics. I don't know if they have kept any of them a live. I tried several times to get information but never got any replies.

University students with lots of time and money to try different lines. Must have been fun!!

 

[orumpoultry]

It was at the time of major cut backs in Canada. Universities funding was being cut. It was just one of those things.

It was amazing Genetics. I don't know if they have kept any of them a live. I tried several times to get information but never got any replies.

University students with lots of time and money to try different lines. Must have been fun!!

I know A&M has tried their hand at genetics with the quail. But, to my knowledge,nothing to that extent.

 

[paschofield]

Most studies I have seen or heard of have always focused on size or egg production. The program at that time at the University of British Columbia Quail Facility was very unique in the number of varieties they had.

 

[orumpoultry]

That's pretty awesome. I'm going to have to research all of this some more. I didn't realize that quail were so rich in heritage and genetic diversity. The possibilities do seem endless if you have enough time.

I wish the funding hadn't been cut. Id love to see what would exist now with twenty more years of research.

 

[paschofield]

I just talked with my friend Robbie Richard at James Marie Farm. He hopes to be selling my line of silver Coturnixs he hatch from my eggs in late April and early May. He should have all of my different Silver variation for sale. He was also excited by the fact that in his last batch of eggs from me he got two of my Charcoals Coturnixs variation, a male and a hen. He loves the colour.. Charcoals are made by breeding a solid blue/grey Coturnix (what I call a True Silver) to a Tibetan Coturnix hen. A nice coloured charcoal is almost gun metal dark grey. A very striking birds. The problem is I only generally get one charcoal out of every 7 or 8 chicks, other wise my place would be over ran by them . A charcoal Tuxedo can be made the same way by using the darkest brown Tuxedo you can find crossed with a True Silver.

I can't wait for him to start selling. The American Coturnix hobby will be turned on its head by all the amazing new colours they will be getting. I am really excited by thinking about some of the new colour that could be developed with all that many new breeders working with them.

 

[orumpoultry]

I can not wait for those colors to be available here in the U.S. I would LOVE to get my hands on some silvers. Just for me!

I think my quail have a calcium deficiency, but I can not be certain. Since they've started back up every couple of eggs looks like these...







They aren't thin. They just aren't polished. It's almost like there's no bloom on these.

 

[paschofield]

Had an explanation for that I found on the net a few years ago. Have to see if I find it for I you.

 

[Sill]

I can not wait for those colors to be available here in the U.S. I would LOVE to get my hands on some silvers. Just for me!

I think my quail have a calcium deficiency, but I can not be certain. Since they've started back up every couple of eggs looks like these...







They aren't thin. They just aren't polished. It's almost like there's no bloom on these.

The way I see these eggs are the hen deposits more shell over the already formed shell and pigments. Perhaps the egg moves backwards a bit in the oviduct before being pushed out? If you look close its a normal shell that has extra calcium deposited over it. They all seem to do this at one time or another, then go on to produce normal shells. My hens produce these eggs maybe 10-15% of the time.

 

[orumpoultry]

When my hens are refreshing is the only time I see these eggs. After they've been off I mean. It doesn't seem to change anything, but you're right. It's almost like they add another layer of calcium or something.

 

[orumpoultry]

Poor little guy couldnt get out of his super hard egg. Full blood retention, yolk absorbed, pipped but never zipped.