What color are my quail?

[AmericanDwarfChicken]

My quail are currently 6 weeks old, and I had expected to get my coop finished before it snowed, but that unfortunately wasn’t the case. But anyway, these quail are standard coturnix quail I hatched myself. There were supposed to 10, but one had quit early on in incubation and the other died of wry neck. The other 2 are in under the brooder plate, and both are all white.

 

[Nabiki]

Individual pics would help, but I see two dotted whites, two pharaohs, and two that look like tibetan. I'm not sure what the one in the middle is, but I suspect sparkly.

 

[AmericanDwarfChicken]

Individual pics would help, but I see two dotted whites, two pharaohs, and two that look like tibetan. I'm not sure what the one in the middle is, but I suspect sparkly.

I’ve heard she may be an Italian color? The breeder had both but he had more Italians. But I agree with the pharaohs and the tibetans.

 

[Nabiki]

Italians are usually lighter in colour. I'm not an expert on colours, though. Even in the six years that I've been raising quail the colour names have changed and a lot of new colours have been introduced.

 

[farmer90]

I raise Manchurian quail and I have not figured out what's the difference between Manchurian and Italians, but IMO the middle one looks exactly like both of them.

 

[farmer90]

And I also want to point out of how envious I am about the white quail. It's been my dream from the beginning to get the white dotted ones, but all my yellow chicks had turned out either a blind albino or the non albinos that had developed a leg issues from the hatch.

 

[Susan Skylark]

Manchurian is a homozygous fawn/Italian (has two copies of the gene). Italian has one copy. You do have an Italian in there.