Is this Celadon?

[CascadiaRiver]

Hello! I very much just have 3 pet quail currently but I would love nothing more than to breed them (probably next spring). We started with a little rooster who we got from the humane society as a stray, he was a dusty golden color who faded to a sort of platinum white.

We incubated some eggs and only 2 hatched, and BOTH are hens! Whoo! Pizazz is a pharaoh pied (1/2 white) and Dazzle is a pharaoh pied with only a bit on her chest, she's the one who lays this "blue" egg.

I know I'm sort of dealing with unknown genes from my little roo, and fairly basic genes from my ladies, just wondering if I'm tossing in the Celadon gene too! (It's a simple recessive right? Or autosomal?)

 

[Nabiki]

The only egg that I see that might be celadon is the one in the back, far right. That could also be an egg that just missed its paint job, so you'll have to see if you get one of those every day.

From what you've said and looking at the patterns, though, I'm guessing that those are eggs from two different hens, five from one and seven from the other, which means not celadon.

 

[Susan Skylark]

The light blue barely speckled eggs are celadon, your greenish blue heavy speckled eggs are normal (carrier?). The way back one is just a weird egg from a young hen trying to figure out what normal is, it probably also has a softer shell than the others. Your hens are both pied white wing, one homozygous and one heterozygous. The heterozygous birds will be whatever base color with a few random white spots.

 

[CascadiaRiver]

The only egg that I see that might be celadon is the one in the back, far right. That could also be an egg that just missed its paint job, so you'll have to see if you get one of those every day.

From what you've said and looking at the patterns, though, I'm guessing that those are eggs from two different hens, five from one and seven from the other, which means not celadon.

That was just the first egg she laid, a sort of funny shape & texture "glitch" egg we call them haha! Every day since she's been laying the mint with speckles, with less and less speckles every day. And yes from two different birds, 5 from one and 7 from the other!

 

[CascadiaRiver]

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The light blue barely speckled eggs are celadon, your greenish blue heavy speckled eggs are normal (carrier?). The way back one is just a weird egg from a young hen trying to figure out what normal is, it probably also has a softer shell than the others. Your hens are both pied white wing, one homozygous and one heterozygous. The heterozygous birds will be whatever base color with a few random white spots.

Yay! That little one is our "glitch" egg, her first she laid. I'm going to see if I can hollow it out to save it that's why we still have it haha! I can't wait to see what they make with our silly little roo next year!!!

 

[Susan Skylark]

I use a large toothpick or kabob skewer to poke a hole in both ends of the egg, use a short straw to blow out the contents (scramble with said toothpick) then rinse and blow out a few more times and allow to dry.

 

[CascadiaRiver]

I use a large toothpick or kabob skewer to poke a hole in both ends of the egg, use a short straw to blow out the contents (scramble with said toothpick) then rinse and blow out a few more times and allow to dry.

This is similar to what I was taught, except I use a needle and one of those "nasal aspirator" things that we had leftover from fostering puppies a billion years ago! I'm hoping the egg being a little more fragile will be able to withstand it, I think it's a really cool egg!