Coturnix quail colors

I'm no expert on colors like this, but I think most of the offspring would be normal brown/wild because that is the dominant color.

 

You'll get gold speckled. You can change/control the spotting and coloring up to a point breeding them with either golden or pharaohs.

 

So the wild color is not dominant?

 

Golden (yellow) is dominant. Brown is in incomplete dominant.

http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/content/58/1/1.abstract
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/416724/japanese-coturnix-quail-color-genetics-plumage-mutations

 

Good to know! Thanks

 

If gold is the easiest color to breed what is the hardest?

 

A coturnix is a coturnix more or less. They are all the same species, the only real difference in raising each color phase is the color itself. Some golden lines have a lethal gene which results in appx 25% less fertility. Some color phases cant be bred as large as others. Otherwise there are no major differences.

 

Hi will color mutations differ from flock to flock? im looking at Tennessee reds and it seem like one breeders quail have significantly deeper color.