Coturnix Quail chick update pictures :)

[First To Hatch]

I'd like to make it known that I hate tuxedos, rossetas, and goldens they are evil. However the jumbo cortunix, normal cortunix, and A&M cortunix are better they actually let you put them feed water and clean up without trying to fly away and dont scratch you till you bleed when you hold them. I also saw that you intend to keep all chicks from your first batch may I suggest that when breeding you keep your females from one supplier and males from another (good idea get another batch put ur males from the first batch on the second batch females and second batch males on first batch females it keeps the birds large, better fertility in young, and undeformed chicks caused by inbreeding) and always remember when breeding A&Ms and Tuxedos never house them together they are both hybrids and can possibly produce deformed chicks. (After my friend told me I understood why my chick had deformed feet and wings it looked like a tuxedo chick possibly had some a&m in him)
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[monarc23]

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LOL just because yours are mean doesnt mean all are. All my coturnix are very friendly, if at all shy. They all come up and try to all get on my hand at once for food or just to "cuddle". I wouldnt keep a mean bird. They'd be in my freezer. I have normal, jumbo, golden AND rosetta.

I found out that both of my different chicks ARE rosettas even in the descripton of rosetta it states that they can have white on their breast (which my one does). I dont own any A & M but may next spring.

I have specific plans for my birds and no im not keeping ALL par say..some of the smaller not thrifty ones are going to pet homes or will be used (dead) to train with my dogs on. Or just goign into the freezer for a nice quail dinner.

If my Rosettas are both males, I'll have a male per cage. If ones a male and ones a female, I'll have them in the same cage atleast for a few hatchings. If both are females, doesnt' really matter where I have them. I am not sure but if Rosetta is a recessive gene, I will only be able to get it by breeding two rosettas together or breeding together twobirds that carry rosetta so if both are male or both are female, I will either order in more rosettas (from yes another supplier, unless I get more from the red oaks supplier) or when my rosettas breed and produce eggs, I'll take a recessive carring rosetta chick and breed it to another recessive carring rosetta chick (that looks normal) to try to get rosetta back. Im not too worried about inbreeding, most find no problems with inbreeding though I don't plan to intentionally inbreed other than to bring out a recessive color. I know too well about genetics in most animals to understand my limits. Any problems and I switch up the birds. Easy enough.


Now, Golden IS dominant, but i want to produce more jumbo goldens, so male or female it will be in a cage with a few other normal jumbos, maybe one female normal if the golden is a male, to bring golden into my normals.


Inbreeding is where you get purebreds, and also where you get recessive genes to express themselves, i see nothing wrong with it when done responcibly.