Learning coturnix colors...

[Sefirothe]

Is Pearl and Pearl Fee the same? What's the more common term or are both used equally? And is this chick that color?

 

[Debbie292d]

Here's an article referencing all of their colors. I see when I reviewed it nearly a year ago, I'd suggested some pictures would help, but maybe this will still help.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...tro-to-common-colors-in-coturnix-quail.79928/

There are links to see the different versions so you could click through them and see them that way.

 

[Sefirothe]

Here's an article referencing all of their colors. I see when I reviewed it nearly a year ago, I'd suggested some pictures would help, but maybe this will still help.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...tro-to-common-colors-in-coturnix-quail.79928/

There are links to see the different versions so you could click through them and see them that way.

I’ve been looking there, plus some of the sites it references. Plus poking around this forum.

It would be nice to have a great big giant chart of pics to hold the chicks up to and compare tho for people still learning.

Like this one, is it Italian? Or Pansy?

 

[Susan Skylark]

Those are both pearl (or Italian fee). Pictures and charts are very difficult to keep updated and accurate with coturnix, there are so many modifier genes and thousands of combinations possible and new ones always emerging. Pips n chicks is by far the most up to date and accurate source. First learn your base patterns (color can vary significantly with modifier genes): wild/pharoah, Italian/fawn, extended brown (EB)/Rosetta (Tibetan is homozygous). Every bird is one of the three. Then stack your color modifiers on top. Fee makes the bird into grayscale/black/white (regular Italians are tan not white). Roux (sex linked recessive) and ginger give you red or sand colored birds (no black or gray). A gray or silver bird is Blau, silver or Andalusian. White or tuxedo is English white or pied wing white or possibly a homozygous gray gene. Pansy, sparkly, calico, myrle, and others cause variations in stripes, bars or feather patterns. And of course they can all interact with one another!