What are the colorings help

[Sammy73]

I was wondering what the closing gs on my 2 quail are,they are 5 days old .

 

[Susan Skylark]

I think autocorrect mangled your post, but from your title I’d say you want colors on your chicks? The brown one is pharoah or wild type the other is an Italian or fawn. They look pretty small for day 5, are they getting enough protein? They should get a minimum of 20%, though more is better. Mine are getting decent feathers by day 5 on 21% starter and are laying by 5 weeks on 28%. Chick starter isn’t appropriate for quail, try turkey starter, an all flock, or a high protein chicken feed if you can’t find gamebird feed.

 

[Nabiki]

Do you know what the parents look like? The first one does look like pharaoh, but their colouring can change a lot as they grow, and several colours look similar as chicks.

From the feathering, they look like they're only about 3 days old. What are you feeding them?

 

[Sammy73]

I think autocorrect mangled your post, but from your title I’d say you want colors on your chicks? The brown one is pharoah or wild type the other is an Italian or fawn. They look pretty small for day 5, are they getting enough protein? They should get a minimum of 20%, though more is better. Mine are getting decent feathers by day 5 on 21% starter and are laying by 5 weeks on 28%. Chick starter isn’t appropriate for quail, try turkey starter, an all flock, or a high protein chicken feed if you can’t find gamebird feed.

Thankyou for reply,I've realised reading small print it's only 18% protein,so I'm off to get higher protein food for them
Thankyou,thanks for colorings too.Samantha

 

[Sammy73]

Do you know what the parents look like? The first one does look like pharaoh, but their colouring can change a lot as they grow, and several colours look similar as chicks.

From the feathering, they look like they're only about 3 days old. What are you feeding them?

Thanks for reply,I realised the chick which I thought was OK,is only 18% protein,I'm now off to get high protein game starter feed ,is that OK,and will they catch up
Thanks sam.