Japanese Coturnix Quail Color Genetics (Plumage mutations)

[JJMR794]

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I NEVER SAID THEY WERE JAPONESE. THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY DID, AND MUCH LIKE ME I'M SURE THEY REALLY DONT CARE ABOUT MARSH FARMS OR THEIR LACK OF RESPECT FOR GENUS AND SPECES NAMES... THANX TO MARSH FARMS AND WHAT THEY DID SOME 50+ YRS AGO THERE ARE STILL MANY FOLKS OUT THERE WHO CALL ANY COTURNIX QUAIL IRREGUARDLESS OF SIZE, COLOR, OR SPECIFIC STRAIN OR SPECES "PHAROAH QUAIL" IT HAS COME TO BE KNOWN AS THE REDNECK ANTHEM FOR COTURNIX QUAIL.

Don't forget the common quail its not the same as a japanese. yes both are corturnix...

Yes your right about him calling them PHAROAH , if he hadn't done that maybe we would be calling them common quail or corturnix corturnix, and not japaneses.

 

[Rainwolf]

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My roos look like that. I think I'm gong make my next breeder pen of Golds and see what happens. I think I should have enough hens from this last hatch to do that. I am kind of partial to the darker ones though. I think they're cool looking, they look like mini hawks.... lol

Golds carry a fatal gene so be aware of about a 25% fatality rate. I tend to breed my golds to a white since gold is dominate.

 

[Hooligan Farm]

I don't have any whites but thanks for the heads up. The ones that I just hatched, their father is a Pharaoh. Will that help any?

 

[Rainwolf]

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Yes, use gold with a non-dominate coloring like white/wild (white is better but wild works in my opinion) and you get a better hatch rate and since gold is dominate more gold then other color.
I have a White roo with all gold females and get a rather good hatching of gold chicks. I've even got a few strange ones that grew to be a old ivory coloring. (my buyers send me photos

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[Fat Daddy]

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Hows your latest hatch going Hooligan? last you said, you had one of six hatched. Bill

 

[Stellar]

Please talk about hatches elsewhere....this thread is strictly for color plumages of the Japanese Coturnix.

 

[James the Bald]

This thread has a lot of good information for memberslooking for plumage and color genetics for Coturnix. If you are interested in Bobwhites, this thread has some of the best information I've read in a long time.
James

 

[chickenguy222]

Can anyone post a picture of what a blonde coturnix looks like? I got eggs in the mail yesterday and my silkie is brooding them for me. Please post any pics if you have any!

 

[smoothmule]

Can you tell the color the chick will be by the down??
This thread starts with some great information, can it be edited to say what the chick down looks like?

 

[lena_]

Can you tell the color the chick will be by the down??
This thread starts with some great information, can it be edited to say what the chick down looks like?

yeah you can usaly. Like a blonde chick with brown stripes will be golden, and a blonde chick will be Texas A&M. If you have a picture post it so I can try colour it.