Question about coloring

[Julevien]

Hi everybody,

I have been looking around online but haven't been able to find info on the coloring of one of my quail chicks -

the chicks are all from silver lines but one of my probable females has a dark back, will this change with her juvenile feathers or would the chick be classified differently? They are 5 weeks old now.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: forgot to mention they are Chinese quail, and we are in the Netherlands

 

[Kale the Quail]

beautiful bird! I don't know what color id it is though. (maybe a SSC?) @Fenrisulfr ? @muddy75 ?

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Beautyful bird

Inheritance of color mutations at Chinese Blue's is a bit different from Japanese Quails.
I am not that experienced in that, but I would say it is a dark Silver Pie. At this stage I'll cannot say if it is masked or unmasked.
I also cannot say, how the plumage will change at mature.

Here is an example of an unmasked silver pearled pie.

As said before, Chinese Quails inherits diffrently to Coturnix and I am not experienced in it.

If it would have been a Japanese Quail, I would also say, that it is a SSC Pie.

Never the less, welcome to BYC... great community here

 

[Fenrisulfr]

I did a little, quick research, as I also wanted to breed Chinese Blues/ Button Quails and maybe will do some day ....
... found this in a hurry:
http://www.zebrafinch.com/NewButtonquail/Splashed-Button.html

Seems that in the US your teenager chick's color is called "Slate Splashed".


Also you may take a look to this old thread about Chinese Quails on BYC:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ed-quail-information-aka-button-quail.420619/

On page 4 there is a post of crossing colors.

 

[Julevien]

I did a little, quick research, as I also wanted to breed Chinese Blues/ Button Quails and maybe will do some day ....
... found this in a hurry:
http://www.zebrafinch.com/NewButtonquail/Splashed-Button.html

Seems that in the US your teenager chick's color is called "Slate Splashed".


Also you may take a look to this old thread about Chinese Quails on BYC:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ed-quail-information-aka-button-quail.420619/

On page 4 there is a post of crossing colors.

Wow thanks, I appreciate it!

Now I have something to go on

 

[Julevien]

I looked up slate and coincidentally came across this thread

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/button-quail-color-identification.1168092/

So according to that my little Miss should be slate tuxedo

Now I only have to find out the European equivalent

Thanks for the help!

 

[Fenrisulfr]

In german it would be "Silber Rückenschecke" ... as dutch is similar, I would guess it is also similar