please help with quail coloring!

[goldiechick]

I just had 25 quail hatch yesterday and only one came out yellow with a brown dot on his head!!! They are all coturnix quail. All the ones I have are brown and all look the same. how did this happen?.what will he look like when he's older? It's exciting! Please help

 

[sniper338]

It will be white with a brown dot on its head... its called an A&M coturnix quail.

 

[Quail Jailer]

It will be white with a brown dot on its head... its called an A&M coturnix quail.

It will be a psychopath in a couple months...lol. Hide the green crayons...

 

[farmerjane65]

ok so your statement that the A&M will be a psychopath in a couple of months .... rings true to me i have 2 both are roosters and they are crazy let me tell ya i thought maybe it was just my birds ..everyone else in the cages wants to be petted and loved on but these two are nutso i even had to move one in the house because they were trying to kill each other ...is this kind of thing normal behavior in the a & m's

 

[Quail Jailer]

from what I can tell they seem to be a tiny bit predisposed to nuttery

I hear this from folks all over so it can't be a particular bloodline, can it?

 

[farmerjane65]

it is somewhat comforting to know that its not just my birds ... i am looking to maybe trade at least one of them for a golden i have lots of tuxedo's the wild color the tebetitin and a few goldens ... i am trying to get each color but i may have to rethink the a&m .... sorry im a terrible speller

 

[ChickenAndMore]

I had a pair of A&M quail and they were actually the best out of my 30 quail. My worst one was a Italian female. She was crazy, she would scare all the other birds when i came in the coop. She actually died from going crazy and flying up and hitting a 2x4 breaking her neck.

 

[farmerjane65]

well if it doesnt have so much to do with the color then i wonder what makes a certain one out of the same hatch batch go crazy .... they were all treated the same from day old hatchlings to present ...well that is untill the two a&m's tried to kill one another ...

 

[ChickenAndMore]

A&Ms may be nutty and violent. I may have just got weird ones. lol

 

[Sill]

It will be a psychopath in a couple months...lol. Hide the green crayons...

LOL

Sometimes it depends on the bloodlines. My A&Ms crop up randomly from my jumbo browns, it is a recessive color trait. Since my jumbo browns were bred for temperament as well as size my white birds are relatively calm, though they are all hens. I culled all the white roosters. Why? Because the brown birds tend to pick on the white birds. Racists? My theory is they can't help picking on the brown spots on the otherwise white birds. Pink skin showing in the white feathers? They will pick at it! Blood on the white feathers? They REALLY can't help but pick at that! So I've found the white birds are always the ones to get picked on first due to color.

The only A&Ms I have right now are four hens with a normal brown rooster. He is very good with his ladies, and they are not missing too many feathers from breeding. Maybe because he is busy worrying about the roosters and hens in the other cages so he hasn't been picking on the girls, plus he is just not aggressive with his hens. I won't keep an A&M rooster for breeding when I have browns with excellent temperaments to choose from.