Quail tip for the day

[Myshire Farm Quail]

To produce pearls which is the picture of my profile. You need German pastel males over Italian hens. Starting out you will get germans, Italians and a few pearls because the Germans carry the fee gene which changes the colors of the Italian from gold and brown to black and white. Then start putting your pearls together

 

[Kiki]

WOOOT!
I'm taking notes, thank you!

 

[mixedUPturk]

To produce pearls which is the picture of my profile. You need German pastel males over Italian hens. Starting out you will get germans, Italians and a few pearls because the Germans carry the fee gene which changes the colors of the Italian from gold and brown to black and white. Then start putting your pearls together

Would you pleeeease post a pic of how your german pastel males look? that color, quite possibly my favorite! Pansy competes hard though i have one Italian hen

 

[Kiki]

YES!
We need pictures...
German pastel male +
Italian female =
Pearl babies.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Would you mind explaining why you'd consider a german pastel type better for introducing the "fee" gene as opposed to falb-fee, etc?

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I don't mean to be ungrateful, but I think I probably speak for a lot of us when I say fewer, higher-quality discussion threads would be more highly appreciated than a new, abandoned thread every day.

In addition, it'd be great if you could stick around to answer follow-up questions about things like this once you put them out there. As it is, I would say this thread promotes confusion, not clarity.

 

[Myshire Farm Quail]

This is a pic of a German pastel male.

Would you pleeeease post a pic of how your german pastel males look? that color, quite possibly my favorite! Pansy competes hard though i have one Italian hen

 

[Myshire Farm Quail]

Would you mind explaining why you'd consider a german pastel type better for introducing the "fee" gene as opposed to falb-fee, etc?

How the fee gene is produced is through the German pastel. You can not get falb fee without getting the gene from German pastel. Now if you don’t have germans but do have falb fee then you could use them but the Germans will be a stronger more pure gene to work with

 

[Myshire Farm Quail]

Here are the pics of a German plus an Italian equals a pearl.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

I'm so confused. First you say "you cannot get the gene except through German pastels" then in the same paragraph you say "well, you can, but it will be weaker." Which is it, and why do you say so? Didn't the fee gene was come in on both the German pastel import and the SSC import? Why do you need a German pastel vs. any other fee-carrier? (My silver male throws pearls when paired with an Italian).

What does "stronger and more pure" mean in this context? You're saying the German pastels are homozygous fee and in general falb-fee are only heterozygous for it? Or the germans carry epistatic genes that help the pearl coloration express better when compared to results with other colors?