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

[FloorCandy]

I was thawing meat for dinner and I decided to take a comparison pic. I have recently discovered that my partial albinos that I call snow angels have more of a white meat color than the other regular quail. This is to show the difference, with a boneless skinless Purdue chicken breast to compare. I took the snow angel out later so it’s a bit more frozen.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

I'd love to see those part albinos :O do they have a thread somewhere?

 

[FloorCandy]

I'd love to see those part albinos :O do they have a thread somewhere?

I think I’ve shown some progress pics over time in the hatch a long. They are partial albinos, it comes from having 2 copies of the silver genes. I had ordered snowie eggs, and they hatched in the group. I’ve read some old science papers from like the 60s where they had partial albinos in the groups. The physical description fit mine, not quite albino red eyes, more purply red, smaller hearts, thinner feathers, etc.

I had 3 hatch, 2 were males so I culled the one with bulging eyes when they started to bicker. The hen has some kind of defect that causes a severe vit e deficiency, so I’ve been treating her for that and she can finally walk again. Normally I would not spend $20 a month on quail pills, plus I give her more costly feed, but the snow angels as we call them, have become house pets. Their thin feathers meant I couldn’t put them out for the winter, so they’re inside until spring. I’m hoping I can get 7 or 8 adults ready to go out in spring so I can grow a pen of them to cull in fall for white meat all winter lol.

I’ll take some pics later and post them here.

 

[MDBird]

That's really interesting, I've never noticed a different meat color with any of my birds. Congrats on breeding white meat Coturnix

 

[FloorCandy]

That's really interesting, I've never noticed a different meat color with any of my birds. Congrats on breeding white meat Coturnix

All the normal birds look the same inside, like dark meat. I’m hopeful for a pen of white meat haha

 

[FloorCandy]

I'd love to see those part albinos :O do they have a thread somewhere?

Here are some new pics of the snow angels:

This is Baldi the hen, for size comparison, that chick turned 2 weeks on Monday, so it’s 2 weeks and 2 days old. You can see the white is a different hue, the best comparison is the normal birds have whole milk colored feathers, smoothe white, the snow angels are more translucent like skim milk, the feathers are more stringy, like they’re missing the coating that helps insulate them, you can see dirt gets stuck in the feathers, not on them, I have to baby wipe them a few times a week, or they look gross(er) lol.

Next is snowflake the male, he’s even smaller than Baldi.

You can see how small he is compared to the normal sized hen who sauntered out of the picture as i took it.

The other male I had to cull was also small, his heart was unusually small as well. They, all 3 have smaller thinner legs than the rest, and Baldi has some kind of internal issue that causes a severe vitamin e deficiency.

Snowflake and the other male feathered normally, but Baldi, and another chick from the hatch, Pebble, were incredibly delayed. Since I have them inside, the lighting is erratic, Pebble lays a few times a week, they’re very small eggs, but every one has hatched, so Snowflake is fertile.

Baldi started to stumble right after her feathers finally grew in, and in a couple days it escalated so severely she rarely stood and flailed her legs in the chips. She could kind of fish on land flip her way to the food and water, but I ended up blocking her in near them because I didn’t want her to get too far away that she couldn’t get back. I directly give her vitamin e, and I add it to the water, and she’s up and walking again, but it was slow progress over more than a month, maybe even 2 months.

Pebble has stayed with them, as she’s far smaller than the normal quail, and the Rose gold colored italian one is in there to give Snowflake more targets haha. I call her Amethyst, and only after I moved her in, I noticed she has blue eyes.

Those are not their chicks, I put them in about a week and a half ago, while I changed their litter, and the hens immediately started to brood them, so I left them, they love their chicks and I plan to let them raise a few from each hatch, it seems to make them happier, since I know being inside and/or blind is hard on them.

 

[Shannon Robinson50]

We just hatched out an albino. Both eyes very pink and definitely different color down, not yellow, but whitish, not silver. We think its blind as it calls in distress when it can’t hear you. We bought ssc hatching eggs.

 

[Nabiki]

We just hatched out an albino. Both eyes very pink and definitely different color down, not yellow, but whitish, not silver. We think its blind as it calls in distress when it can’t hear you. We bought ssc hatching eggs.

All of the albinos I've gotten have been from my SSCs. I've stopped raising them for that reason. I've had to cull every albino I've hatched due to issues, mostly blindness.

 

[shrimpsilkies]

All of the albinos I've gotten have been from my SSCs. I've stopped raising them for that reason. I've had to cull every albino I've hatched due to issues, mostly blindness.

I’m wondering if the albino Myshire I hatched was a SSC in my last mixed batch I got from them. It would make sense since I got only one SSC but an albino and a leucistic, both with internal issues. The rest were probably from other breeding pens (Falb/Grau/Charcoal Fee, Roux)

 

[Shannon Robinson50]

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.