Quail genetics and housing?

[ldrchickens]

Hey Guys. I am excited to announce i am now raising quail! I went and picked up 15 little cuties last night and am in love. There are the standard brown color, some plain white, one Italian gold and some white with brown spots i believe gold tuxedo. I am wanting to breed them and I am wondering how do their genetics work? What genes will be dominant in the offspring? Will it be a combo of both? If the answer is somewhere just point to in that direction lol. Also i have a small coop that housed my chickens in that i will be using for their shelter. Should i make it ground level? Do they climb? Also there is a roost inside of it so will they use it? Take it out? Thank you!

 

[Ridgerunner]

If you search down through this you can find calculators for button quail and Japanese quail.

http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

I know nothing about quail genetics so I can't help you any of that. Hopefully someone will help you.

I use the chicken calculator which gives fairly simplistic results but it helped me a lot in understanding a little about how the basic genetics work. The results don't always match real life because of the interactions of partially dominant genes and some modifiers that are not modeled. One difficulty in using the chicken calculator is that there are usually more than one way to make a certain color, even plain white or plain black. So you can't usually tell by looking what the actual genetics are. By looking you don't know what recessive genes may be hiding under dominant genes. The biggest challenge with chickens is knowing what genetics to start with. I suspect the same may be true with quail.

Don't know if this will help you any but good luck in your quest.

 

[ldrchickens]

If you search down through this you can find calculators for button quail and Japanese quail.

http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

I know nothing about quail genetics so I can't help you any of that. Hopefully someone will help you.

I use the chicken calculator which gives fairly simplistic results but it helped me a lot in understanding a little about how the basic genetics work. The results don't always match real life because of the interactions of partially dominant genes and some modifiers that are not modeled. One difficulty in using the chicken calculator is that there are usually more than one way to make a certain color, even plain white or plain black. So you can't usually tell by looking what the actual genetics are. By looking you don't know what recessive genes may be hiding under dominant genes. The biggest challenge with chickens is knowing what genetics to start with. I suspect the same may be true with quail.

Don't know if this will help you any but good luck in your quest.

Thank you!