gender ID for white quail, take a look?

[Kel60]

So ita beginning to look like all five of my new qauil are males. Pray for me.

I'm desperately hoping the two white ones might turn out to be hens at least. The Pharoahs are unfortunately almost definitely male.

This is the two whites, now I remember being told that females from my white and amber brown male would be starkly white and black. None of the brown in the spots that he had. Is this accurate? They are looking much for classically italian then him.

They still have a golden tint to the main body feathers. The they black spots are purely black. Not brown and black.

 

[muddy75]

Age??? And at 3+ weeks need clear picture of the breast. From these pictures/angles and not knowing age I’m leaning toward male on these 2 as well.

 

[Kel60]

Their being uncooperative so pics might be a bit but the chests of both seem to be starkly white. No red cast and no speckling.

Also age 5wks

 

[little chick-y baby mama]

how would I know?

 

[Kel60]

Angry Birb

 

[Nabiki]

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Angry Birb

That one looks like a boy. I'm seeing some red coming in there.

 

[Kel60]

 

[Nabiki]

If it's any consolation, I once incubated 6 eggs for a customer. One didn't develop, and he ended up with 5 healthy boys.

 

[Kel60]

Guess I'll be having quail for dinner soon. The disabled one is going to my neighbor who wants to raise him for however long he makes it. So that leaves me with a total of five males and five females in my flock.

I'm gonna have to find somewhere with quail chicks and try to pick out females instead of just rolling the dice. I know I want to keep the one male. His coloration is really cool, but the others are gonna have to go.

 

[Shannon Robinson50]

Sound like a dinner party of 4, then. One male to 5 females is perfect. Then hatch some eggs