UBER excited about Coturnix eggs...

[rodriguezpoultry]

Nope...mine haven't started laying yet, BUT I've got some eggs coming from someone........

(Can I mention your name?)

They'll be goldens and whites!!!! EEEE!!!!!!


Anyone want to share pictures of theirs??

 

[saddina]

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In the education post up top, there's a bunch of niki's pix, sadly I lack camera skills.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=102281

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I looked, but had some questions...

Do all goldens come out looking like that? Or does one have to breed for color?

Any more photos on the whites? Are they all A&Ms?

Can I put those colors in with my wild-type coturnix colors and get some oddities happening?

 

[saddina]

Yeah, genetics... uhh this is Niki's thing, I just know what's in which thread... I'll try...

Goldens refers to that specific color.

Most whites in the US will be A&M which was bread at TX A&M university in the 70's for a white meat bird, that project ended years ago, the flock was disbursed, and is now in the hands of private breeders, the 1 LB birds have become quite smaller, and the genes diluted, but there are people trying to breed back to the University sized birds (I wrote a term paper on the history of them last summer for a research class). There are also English whites (which were used in the creation of the A&M stock), but because of bird import/export laws, there are colors in eurpoe that are not as available stateside.

You can certainly cross colors, the most common one I can think of is the tuxedo pattern, which is crossing a solid bird with an A&M, to get a white bellied pattern (similar to a penguin or tuxedo).

As for the rock paper scissors of what color beats what, I'll let someone with experiance there chime in.

 

[arllcountrygirl]

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LOL!! Yes you can mention name. Niki (monarc) is your girl to go to about the colors and breeds, etc. She is the Coturnix Queen

 

[shelleyd2008]

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There are 2 different 'types' of golden, one is gold base with blakc spots on the back, the other is gold base with maroon spots on the back.

You can put goldens in with your browns, golden is incomplete dominant. I believe I've read that from every 3 eggs (theoretically) that you hatch from a brown/golden cross, 2 of the chicks will be golden, and 1 will be brown.

The 'A&M' that most people have now are not 'true' A&M. A&M are supposed to be about a pound in size, most people's are the size of a pharoah (about 6-8 oz.) So I am calling mine whites.

There is a variety called the english white which was used to make A&M. English whites are pharoah sized, so it seems most 'A&M' are reverting back to this.

You can put whites with your browns as well. White is recessive though, so all the chicks would look brown. Eventually, you could breed the offspring together and get a percentage of white hatchlings, but they wouldn't be anything special, just whites

What you could do is put the whites and goldens together, and try to get a golden tuxedo. I believe there are a few people that have 'A&M' that have golden head spots instead of brown head spots, so it should be possible to get golden tux's eventually.

You need more colors

I have a few openings in egg sales next week if you want some really neat colors

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Tuxedo is very hard to get. The colors that it works the best on are tibetans, basically any 'range' birds. The other colors (brown, gold) are difficult to get a good tuxedo in. I don't know of anyone that has 'true' gold or brown tuxedos.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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If you have lavenders....you're on!

I think I'm going to wait to see how much I truly like the coturnix...I love them so far. Easy going, except for that one male....and then the whole "gasping" one that freaks me out.

I saw Akane with some of these "purple" colored coturnix and I thought they would look SO neat in an aquarium in my living room...


rbam, what kind of goldens are yours???

I'm so excited...and I just can't hide it....

 

[shelleyd2008]

I haven't seen Akane's, but as far as I know there aren't any lavenders in the US. I have red-goldens, cinnamons, tuxedo (both dark and rosetta tibetan), golden, white, and I think that's it? Other than the browns, of course.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

My dad is enamored by the quail. He says "All we need is to get them breeding and we're set!"

He was so excited about the whole decapitating, skinning and being done in less than a minute. He's wanting them to breed and put some quail out on his hunting land because there are none out there as of right now.

I just wonder why I ain't got no stinkin' eggs from MY birds.