Spot’s Coturnix quail colour experiments

[SpotTheCat]

I looked at southwest gamebirds, now there are more colours on my I want list I really want sparkly

 

[SpotTheCat]

I might have some browns, some of my wild types look lighter then others I need to have a better look at them tomorrow

 

[FloorCandy]

I looked at southwest gamebirds, now there are more colours on my I want list I really want sparkly

I just got some from k dale Coturnix. They’re gonna be 6 weeks on Friday. They’re beautiful, and I can’t wait to get them into the mix, I also got a solid black in that hatch, another with a super fancy color name I never heard before and can’t remember lol, and my albinos are growing up, I need more pens, and space...

 

[SpotTheCat]

I just got some from k dale Coturnix. They’re gonna be 6 weeks on Friday. They’re beautiful, and I can’t wait to get them into the mix, I also got a solid black in that hatch, another with a super fancy color name I never heard before and can’t remember lol, and my albinos are growing up, I need more pens, and space...

I am trying very hard to stick with the colours have at the moment, no new ones. It helps that I can’t find a lot of the more rare colours

 

[FloorCandy]

I might have some browns, some of my wild types look lighter then others I need to have a better look at them tomorrow

It was interesting reading about the sex linked brown. I have very few wild patterns, and I always thought pharaoh was pharaoh and it just had a variety of tones. turns out it does have a variety of tones, but also a very similar sex linked, and totally separate color haha.

 

[SpotTheCat]

It was interesting reading about the sex linked brown. I have very few wild patterns, and I always thought pharaoh was pharaoh and it just had a variety of tones. turns out it does have a variety of tones, but also a very similar sex linked, and totally separate color haha.

All very interesting and confusing. I have a female with very few spots on her chest and it is a bit rusty coloured I am wondering what could be causing it? Maybe the brown gene?

 

[FloorCandy]

All very interesting and confusing. I have a female with very few spots on her chest and it is a bit rusty coloured I am wondering what could be causing it? Maybe the brown gene?

I recently had a snowie male (silver Italian) with a full on speckled chest, big huge guy, as big as the hens, never crowed. I had him with a rooster and 3 other hens, thinking he was a she. One day I’m cleaning, so I put the birds in a tote, he/she was the first one in, and immediately let out a crow haha.

 

[FloorCandy]

Do you have a picture of the orange male? It sounds very interesting

Here’s my boy Apollo, he has eyes so light blue, they often have a red hue:

I have a hen from the same hatch that’s very similar, but tuxedo.

Not sure if you can tell from comparison with my hand, but he’s 9 weeks old and half the size of the hens he hatched with, and about 25-30% smaller than the other males the same age.

 

[SpotTheCat]

Here’s my boy Apollo, he has eyes so light blue, they often have a red hue:
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I have a hen from the same hatch that’s very similar, but tuxedo.

Not sure if you can tell from comparison with my hand, but he’s 9 weeks old and half the size of the hens he hatched with, and about 25-30% smaller than the other males the same age.

He is really pretty, is he one of the double silvers? Or do you have any ideas of what he is?

 

[SpotTheCat]

https://www.researchgate.net/public...tations_on_the_Z_chromosome_of_Japanese_quail
Going by the pictures in this I have a lot of browns. I am wondering if you can tell the difference more easily with the chick down then the adult feathers