Japanese Coturnix Quail Color Varieties!!!!

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Pharaoh- the original color one would see in the wild, wild-type pattern, dominant

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FEMALE:
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Jumbo Brown/Pharaoh- Pharaohs selectively bred to be larger
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English White- homozygous for recessive white. Most have black or brown spotting (NOTE a gene or dominant white has been reported and that the homozygous birds are of low viability).

In photo on right...

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Texas A and M/Jumbo White- selectively bred from English white and Jumbo Pharaohs to produce large birds for the meat industry.

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Manchurian Golden- yellow gold with brown stripes. A single dominant gene for yellow changes wild type to Manchurian. The gene is lethal IF homozygous, there are light and dark tints to the Manchurian

MALE:
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FEMALE:
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Italian- beige to yellow with striated markings (v-marks in plummage).

MALE:
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FEMALE:
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Dark British Range- Also known as Tibetan. It looks like a dark chocolate bird with a white throat. Some have more white on them, some don't have white at all. Incomplete dominant.

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Rosetta- Also known as British Range. A combination of an English white and a Dark British Range. A lighter orange/tan color throughout body. The UK call them American Range. Incomplete dominant

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Silver- Not much known yet, incomplete dominant

Tuxedo- two colored pied pattern. This is a result of a combination of the genes for chocolate with genes for recessive white. Recessive

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Red Tuxedo- A new two colored pied pattern. Looks like a normal tux but the red replaces the chocolate. A combination of Range and English white.

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Red Range also known as cinnamon? (The real cinnamon is not here in the US yet, more orangy in color)

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Scarlett- Also known as Red Golden.. A nice red color with gold pinning. Incomplete Dominant

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"Roux" Dilute- A lighter color of the wild coturnix. Recessive Also known as Fawn

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Golden Tuxedo (still in the works)

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Guys I am creating a spreadsheet for my usage, something like the Coturnix Calculator, but only from real life experience.
Example:
male Pharaoh + female Golden Manchurian => 40% Golden Manchurians, 60% Pharaohs... (this is just an example).
So if anyone has ever kept track of parents colors and hatched chicks colors, could you please send them to me so I include them?
I will post this in the other thread as well, so hopefully more people could contribute. OR if anyone has already started collecting such data maybe could share and have it available for everyone to read?
 
What is the difference between Falb-fee and Pearl-fee? Is it size? From the description I've been reading here, it looks like Falb-fee are jumbo sized?

I'm trying so hard to resist these pretty birds since my first batch of regular jumbos is supposed to ship tomorrow.


Nooooo, totally different!

Falb-fee
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Pearl-fee on far right (white and black one, tho this one is a lil "dirty" - with the yellow back feathers.)
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There are no jumbo lines of either as far as I know, but size will vary wildly breeder to breeder.
 
I think the lighting/angles are misleading! That listing looked pretty much like mine, their fronts are extremely creamy but with grey backs. They are basically pharoah but with all the red/brown tones removed. Also, theirs is a female so the chest pattern is a little different.
Still pretty, and I still want. :) Must... wait... until first batch is hatched!
 

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