Coturnix Quail Identification

[GodLovesU]

I’m currently in the process of banding and organizing my quail so I’ll probably just keep posting pics. Guesses towards coloration and gender welcome!

Today’s quail:

(Faline)

(Kally)

(Prim) I have two that look like this

Also, any idea what the beard-looking things on some of my quail are?

 

[Nabiki]

The first one is a pharaoh hen. The other two I'm not sure of the exact names for.

The "beard" is just some rough feathers.

 

[MystOpal]

They are gorgeous, especially the second one! But the first one is so refined, it probably already had practice posing for the paparazzi I guess.


My guesses, but I'm new so probably wrong:

The second one seems like it might be Calico? Even if that isn't the technical color name, I feel like it should be.

This is a picture of a calico quail from pips and chicks

It seems to work with other genes so if it is calico maybe its sibling is also calico (assuming the white quail is related)

 

[Susan Skylark]

Your pharoah looks like it also has sparkly. Has the white on the others been getting more pronounced? It may be progressive pied if it has. If not i’d guess the middle one is some sort of American pansy/Italian with white (white wing pied?). The bottom one might be a pearl American pansy (Italian/fee/American pansy). While I love the picture of that calico, I have no idea how they got their bird to look like that, I hatched two from thieving otter and they were just a pharoah looking thing with some lighter striping, I sold them because it was a boring color! it only shows up in homozygous form and is hard to see on anything but a wild type so don’t think that includes your bottom birds. As for the beard, here’s a drawing of my son’s favorite male (by my son), is this what you are talking about:

In this case it is a very slight decorative thing on this male, think beard on a turkey, just on a guy who can’t grow facial hair! As for figuring out your colors, if you can, breed them to a clean pharoah and see what you get, sometimes it helps, but there are dozens of genes and they interact in hundreds of ways so it can be tough to sort out. I still don’t know what my peach quail are but it is at least 4 different genes?! But that is half the fun!

 

[Susan Skylark]

Calico pharoah (not gorgeous like that pips n chicks guy!):

American pansy/Italian rooster (no white), so called chocolate Italian:

Pearl pansy (Italian/fee/pansy) rooster, two chocolate Italians as well:

Peach mystery quail (Blau/roux/Italian/Rosetta/fee/white?):

Sorry, I don’t have a sparkly but I am hatching ginger because I need even more confusing genetics! I’d like an actual blue or purple one, not just gray that’s called blue!