Shipped wrong peep-peeps?

[Finnie]

Adult Red Pyle males have white breasts. What age does that become visible?
In one of the photos of a cockerel & a pullet, I can see light-brown feathers on both breasts.
(It's the first photo of the ones posted yesterday.)

You know what? Without zooming in on those pictures, I just assumed they were pullets with salmon coming in on their breast. But now that you mention it, that one does look like a cockerel. So now I’m not so sure about the dominant white.

 

[NatJ]

You know what? Without zooming in on those pictures, I just assumed they were pullets with salmon coming in on their breast. But now that you mention it, that one does look like a cockerel. So now I’m not so sure about the dominant white.

The poster said it was a cockerel and a pullet, so I assumed they were right.

I think it's probably the splash version of what they ordered. When you breed two blue chickens together, you get some offspring with splash instead of the blue. Most hatcheries have explanations that when you order "blue," you really get a mix of black/blue/splash. (In this case, Splash Quail d'Anvers.)

But you have a good point about Dominant White. Adding that gene to a Quail bird would probably also give an effect like this. Not sure what you'd call it though--White Quail??

 

[NatJ]

Where did you get them?

Ideal.

I just went back and re-read this part, then I looked them up on Ideal's website and read that description again:
https://www.idealpoultry.com/product/1502/106#
"Blue Quail Belgian d'Anver bantam chicks hatch in three different colors: black, dark gray and light gray."

Sounds like black/blue/splash distribution. So I think they did ship the right chicks, and these are just one thing that happens when breeding blue anything in chickens.

(If you breed two of the light ones to each other, you should get only light chicks. If you breed a light one to one with black in the pattern, you should get only ones with blue. Breeding two blues usually produces all three versions.)

 

[Rhodebar Lover]

I just went back and re-read this part, then I looked them up on Ideal's website and read that description again:
https://www.idealpoultry.com/product/1502/106#
"Blue Quail Belgian d'Anver bantam chicks hatch in three different colors: black, dark gray and light gray."

Sounds like black/blue/splash distribution. So I think they did ship the right chicks, and these are just one thing that happens when breeding blue anything in chickens.

(If you breed two of the light ones to each other, you should get only light chicks. If you breed a light one to one with black in the pattern, you should get only ones with blue. Breeding two blues usually produces all three versions.)

Good point! I agree!