Silver/blue coturnix quail

[Nabiki]

Are there any other colours that you know of that have this problem? Atm we have chicks (adorable) and want to keep as many as we can (but depends on male/female and temperament): tux, tux-rosetta, rosetta, italian, pearl, calico, whites (we think British white), a light rosetta (not sure what she is), a light tux, and some silvers and silver-tuxes on the way.

Italians also have the lethal gene. As long as you're not breeding silver to silver or Italian to Italian, you're good, though.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I think they mean born with defects or what not as they said short legs or tufts so that my guess.

Most don't survive incubation. For the record, short legs and tufts are not defects. They're specific traits required in some breeds of chicken

 

[Patiocoturnix]

Most don't survive incubation. For the record, short legs and tufts are not defects. They're specific traits required in some breeds of chicken

Ok thank you I did not know that now I do.

 

[MixedBreed]

Italians also have the lethal gene. As long as you're not breeding silver to silver or Italian to Italian, you're good, though.

Okay, thank you. Will need to rearrange my plan of which boys/girls to choose. Thanks everyone.

 

[Whraith]

I believe the same goes for Italian's too.

I see some websites encourage silver to silver breeding but I've never been willing to try it myself, for fear of hatching defective birds in pain.

Italian's are NOT a lethal gene. Italian's have one copy of the Fawn dilute gene and in Homozygous form are called Manchurian or Golden Manchurian.