differentiating coturnix chicks

[jontowns]

I have just hatched out some BW , Jumbo, golden, and tuxedo chicks. Is there any way to tell which are which? I can tell the goldens but do not have a clue as to the BW, Jumbo Or Tux. Help

 

[CheerfulChaos]

Check out the Coturnix Education post by Monarc23. She shows pics of both chicks and adults of each color. It's toward the bottom of the first post. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=102281

Hope that link posted correctly, I'm new at this.

If not, just do a search for "Coturnix Education" and look on page number one. HTH

 

[shelleyd2008]

Tuxedos will have a white breast. Jumbos are black with brown racing stripes. BW are as well, but their faces are different, if that makes any sense. Sam posted some pics of baby BW before, let me see if I can find them for you.

This one has golden and normal browns in it...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=44854

And FINALLY! The bobwhites

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=128542

 

[shelleyd2008]

And last but not least, my tuxedo babies! (that is a chicken chick with them, not another type of quail

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=133950

 

[monarc23]

i could see how you can confuse bw with normal coturnix but i noticed one main difference. Bobwhite chicks have almost finch beaks where as coturnix quails have normal bird beaks like chicken shaped.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Going by Sam's pics, it seems they have a lot more red on them? Or are those like week-old pics?

 

[monarc23]

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Going by Sam's pics, it seems they have a lot more red on them? Or are those like week-old pics?

yeppers they do but if you're a newbie to coturnix and bw i could see how someone would be unsure

when i first got into coturnix i was amazed how much they looked the same until I noticed the beaks! LOL!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Going by Sam's pics, it seems they have a lot more red on them? Or are those like week-old pics?

yeppers they do but if you're a newbie to coturnix and bw i could see how someone would be unsure

when i first got into coturnix i was amazed how much they looked the same until I noticed the beaks! LOL!

Yeah, that's what I meant by 'their heads looking different', I knew there was something that I had noticed about them, just wasn't sure what it was!