Quail meat comparison pic- normal quail/ white meat quail/ chicken breast

[shrimpsilkies]

We don’t mind a 1-2 specials to be raised as inside birds. We already bought a hospital cage, so we will use that. We really love the look of the silvers. The collection as so many types, that we only have one chick type with more than 2 of the same in appearance, the albino/leucine(sp?) and whites( some of which appear to be light silvers, but all same idea of appearance. All the rest are 1-2 of each look. It’s a crazy collection and exactly what we wanted. We won’t know till day four how many will eat and survive. We have some that are smaller, but they seam to be eating. One almost needs little gps dots on them to follow them to see where they go. Hopefully I get better at it, but they shoot around so fast and I’m too old fir this.

The leucistic quail I had could see well and would have probably lived a decent lifespan if she didn’t just get clawed by a raccoon. Her bones and feather were fragile and on autopsy I could see she’d broken and healed two wing bones and her upper beak. She laid little micro eggs with half a yolk... definitely would have fared better as an indoor bird.
My albino was blind with bulging eyes and though I even tried forcefeeding him he never digested his food and I had to cull at day 2.

 

[Shannon Robinson50]

The albino is active and bossy. He screams for our daughter. It’s like the shower scene in psycho, eeek, eeeek, eeeek. . not fun at 1 am, 1:10, 1: 40... you get the idea

 

[FloorCandy]

The partial albinos I got from the SSC’s all grew and survived. One had bulging eyes but was otherwise fine, all 3 were blind. I ended up culling the bulging eyes one because I had 2 males so I kept the more normal one. I put my silvers with non silvers, except for the double silvers (partial albinos), so I won’t get more doubles from general pop, as I often sell eggs so I don’t want people getting duds. I’ve had a couple full albinos, but they died after just a couple days. First the wings droop, and then within 24 hours they’re gone. They eat and run and seem otherwise normal, but there were internal issues I suppose. The indoor birds are set up silver with double silver, as I’ve been hoping to get more of these partial albinos to grow for their meat.