Pharaoh Coturnix quail hatching blonde colors

[jwatts]

I have 2 pharaoh Coturnix quail. 1 male. 1female. I just hatched an egg that is a white/blonde quail. Has anyone ever heard of this before?

 

[oktx]

Yep. Texas A&M is the white variety of coturnix quail. They are either all white or predominately white with a few patches of brown or black.

 

[MobyQuail]

well, texas A&M is a "line" of the recessive white, single pied, color of the coturnix quail, not the name for the white color.

actually the original texas A&M were brown birds...bred by Dr. Thornberry an ag extension specialist with T A&M Univ

and the Texas A&M strain has been backyard bred to smithereeens to where they are basically just jumbo whites.

very few breed to the single dot and weight standards set by the university 40 years ago.


if you hatched a white chick from brown parents then both of the brown parents may have been "splits"

visually brown with a recessive white gene, when 2 "splits" meet up you get a chance for white chicks.

I breed white to brown splits and they are some of my best birds.

good luck.

 

[Fat Daddy]

Good post TD!

The Texas A&M's have been one of the most "exaggerated" line of birds since the phoenix... There is no white meat coturnix, PERIOD.... Its just not so. If you read this in a add, you can be sure the seller is knowingly peddling "Quail Oil" and not to be trusted.... Another red flag is "DIRECTLY FROM THE TEXAS A&M LINE".... Its a shame some will trade their integrity for egg sales, but it happens often! Alot of "Quail enthusiast", I wont call them "breeders", run "mixed" pens that produce mutts and you never know what your gonna hatch. Some call these "special project" birds ect.... Usually good to avoid these and buy your eggs from "Breeders" of known stock... Bill

 

[Stellar]

You my friend have a roux dilute that popped up in your genes. Nothing wrong with that. The roux was a color that spontaneously popped up in the pharaohs a while back. It is a weaker gene but bred back to the pharaoh it got stronger. We are working on the Jumbo variety of this bird and they are nice and chunky.

 

[laseterlass]

what color is he? A roux Quail Lady? She is a Tux Range or Rosetta? ALL the chicklets are her coloring and some are Tuxedo. NONE look like Daddy

 

[laseterlass]

The Babies all are like this some with white.

 

[myfinefeatheredfriends]

Actually I think Stromberg's just started carrying the blonde color. I'm not 100% sure though.