Test breeding

[mmwellsfarm]

How would I go about test breeding to find out if my one quail is an English White or an het Dotted White het Splash? What would I breed to?

 

[Susan Skylark]

I thought English white/dotted white is the same color (in homozygous form, tuxedo in heterozygous). There is also a pied wing white which is similar to a tuxedo in homozygous form and throws randomly white spotted birds in heterozygous. Do a little internet searching and you should be able to differentiate a tuxedo from a homozygous pied wing white. If your bird is all white it is probably homozygous English/spotted white or maybe a homozygous silver. Heterozygous silver will throw gray colored birds.

 

[mmwellsfarm]

I thought English white/dotted white is the same color (in homozygous form, tuxedo in heterozygous). There is also a pied wing white which is similar to a tuxedo in homozygous form and throws randomly white spotted birds in heterozygous. Do a little internet searching and you should be able to differentiate a tuxedo from a homozygous pied wing white. If your bird is all white it is probably homozygous English/spotted white or maybe a homozygous silver. Heterozygous silver will throw gray colored birds.

It's from the Oz Snowy line. I forgot to add that in. I don't know how to test breed but the breeder I got the eggs from said those were my options in the color of my quail. It's one of those two.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Oz snowy is its own color, separate from both pied wing white and English/dotted white. Southwest game birds website and pipsnchicks (google pips and chicks quail color genetics) both have a good introduction to various color genetics.

 

[mmwellsfarm]

Oz Snowy English White or Oz Snowy het Dotted White het Splash is the colors I was told but I'm learning. I'm trying to figure out how to figure out coloring and how to test breed the colors to find.

 

[mmwellsfarm]

Oz snowy is its own color, separate from both pied wing white and English/dotted white. Southwest game birds website and pipsnchicks (google pips and chicks quail color genetics) both have a good introduction to various color genetics.

I looked it up but still confused as it doesn't mention the colors I'm referring to. I know are one of them as someone in Australia who breeds them confirmed its one of the two. I'm just not sure how to figure it out with test breeding if that makes sense. It's my only Oz Snowy that didn't unalive themselves at a young age and I only had a handful hatch.