Japanese Coturnix Falb-Fee Discussion Thread

[MiracleHatch]

This hatch mate to the Falb fee hen; what is it? (Seems to be Fee but is barred)

 

[Nabiki]

This is a Falb fee hen correct?

Yes.

 

[Nabiki]

This hatch mate to the Falb fee hen; what is it? (Seems to be Fee but is barred)

My guess would be grau fee, but I'm not an expert.

 

[Reinventme127]

i am pretty sure one is male. Not sure about. The one in solo pic

 

[Nabiki]

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i am pretty sure one is male. Not sure about. The one in solo pic

How old are they? The one in the first pic looks like there's some rust coming in, so I'm guessing male. The one on the right in the second pic is definitely male, the one on the right might not be feather sexable.

 

[FloorCandy]

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i am pretty sure one is male. Not sure about. The one in solo pic

Top and bottom left look male, the right one looks male, but it’s markings might be too light to tell.

 

[Jedstar]

Hi. I live up in Northern Australia. I have some of those wild coloured Quail and the cream coloured wild versions aswell. I've noticed that strain of Quail are the biggest out of all the other couloured strains I have and seen. I've got white ones and ones with the white patterning on them.white ones with the brown patches and tuxedos ones

 

[Reinventme127]

I am not sure of their age when i got them so totally unsure. They definitely were older than day old when i got them. Maybe 3 weeks but I have never seen them grow so i am just guessing[/QUOTE]

 

[shrimpsilkies]

I have an interesting situation in my flock. I have this strange hen which is a light tan and white with very little red or yellow, unlike a wildtype Pharaoh. Almost like a Roux/Egyptian but clearly not, or at least a not a pure Roux. Wanting to breed some more of her I paired her with a wildtype male. I ended up with a Falb Fee roo and a Roux-like hen from those eggs.

These were the two parents. The male really didn’t seem to have Fee in him, and I’m pretty sure the hen wasn’t from a place that had any Fee.

Here’s my Falb Fee roo. He’s still got a lot of red on his sides but his breast is pure white, just seems to be heterozygous Fee. Looks just like others posted in this thread.

I do have one Fee hen, and she’s shaped similarly to the roo’s father, and they hatched from similar eggs. If those two were siblings that might explain my Falb Fee rooster, but has anyone else seen a Fee get produced from two birds that don’t express Fee?

 

[FloorCandy]

From what I’ve heard roux + fee will create a lighter colored roux, and if you breed the light one to another fee, you can get even lighter roux if some offspring carry roux and two copies of fee. As far as how these came about and what they are called, I’m not sure, that male looks like golden and fee almost, but I also have a male with patchy beige feathers along the edges of a bare white pied chest (not fee so darker than yours) and he was normal looking pharaoh tux, and those beige feathers started popping up at about 5.5 weeks old, and I think they might be a natural development of the male chest feathers along the edges of the pied areas. I have snowie eggs incubating now, so hopefully next year I’ll have better first hand knowledge to share.