Date Title Content Categories 2022/09/08 Female Chinese painted quail US Red-breasted Fallow, from 2022 A nice US Red-breasted Fallow hen bred in my aviaries in 2022 from a silver … Birds 2022-09-08 23:46:43 2022/09/04 Chinese painted quail male, US Red-breasted silver Tuxedo fallow An interesting Chinese painted male bird bred in my aviaries in 2022 from the following … Birds 2022-09-04 14:10:34 2022/02/14 Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis). US Red-breasted cinnamon female, having male coloration on the back and tail. Another very strange bird born in my aviaries during the breeding season of 2021.We can … Birds 2022-02-14 16:22:20 2022/01/15 Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted female, having male feathers. Another picture of a young female of Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis) born in my … Birds 2022-01-15 15:02:30 2022/01/10 Female Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted changing to male coloration Another very interesting young female bird, born in my aviaries in 2021.Firstly grown with normal … Birds 2022-01-10 11:54:05 2021/04/09 European quail, male (Coturnix coturnix) from breeding 2020. The under-reported pictures show you a nice male of the European quail, born in my … Birds 2021-04-09 19:22:58 2021/02/17 Chinese painted quail male, DF blue face brown Double factor blue face brown, male. From my aviaries.A nice dark “chocolate-brown” bird without white … Birds 2021-02-17 23:53:13 2021/02/17 Chinese painted quails males, ivory color-combination I wanted to share with you on this Website a few pictures of the first … Birds 2021-02-17 22:55:33 2021/02/13 An old, intensive male of Chinese painted quail, US Red-Breasted mutation. This intensive, short-feathered US Red-breasted male is now very old.I took those pictures on February … Birds 2021-02-13 23:07:27 2021/02/13 Female Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted brown possible ‘grey form’. The bird I am now reporting some pictures below is a female and its coloring … Birds 2021-02-13 22:35:30 2021/02/13 Male Chinese painted quail, US Red-Breasted brown. A breeding bird descended from a paternal line of animals having very intensely colored redbreasts. … Birds 2021-02-13 21:31:39 2021/02/13 A female of Chinese painted quail, (golden) pearl Fallow combination. The photos below are of a female (golden) pearl Fallow born in my aviaries in … Birds 2021-02-13 21:09:38 2021/02/13 Male of Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted type ‘Darth Vader’ In winter, we sometimes have such cold days illuminated with a light that lends itself … Birds 2021-02-13 19:07:34 2021/02/11 A golden pearl female of Chinese painted quail that turned into a male Another example of a female Chinese painted quail changing feathers colouration:This golden pearl female is … Birds 2021-02-11 21:50:27 2021/02/11 2 females of US Red-breasted Chinese painted quail, developing a male colouration Have a closer look at the two birds pictured below.They were two US Red-breasted females … Birds 2021-02-11 21:28:37 2021/02/11 Female of US Red-breasted Chinese painted quail, displaying male feathers The under-reported pictures show a female Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis) bred in my aviaries … Birds 2021-02-11 00:27:10 2021/02/10 Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis) blue-face fallow from breeding season 2014. The under-reported pictures are from some young Chinese painted quail bred during the breeding season … Birds 2021-02-10 23:21:23 2021/02/10 Male of European quail (Coturnix coturnix) from November 2015. I share with you a few pictures I just found back on my computer of … Birds 2021-02-10 22:54:09 2021/02/09 “Black-bib” selection project in Chinese painted quail for 2021 One of the selective projects that will be carried out during the breeding season of … Birds 2021-02-09 22:19:55 2021/02/06 Chinese painted quail US Red-breasted cinnamon male, bred in 2020 Through the years, I selected a strain of US Red-breasted cinnamon Chinese painted quails (Coturnix … Birds 2021-02-06 20:51:31 2021/02/06 European wild quails, juveniles (Coturnix coturnix) from spring 2020. Three young European quails (Coturnix coturnix) from breeding pair No.6.The pictures were taken on June … Birds 2021-02-06 14:17:23 2020/11/22 “Dark-headed” US Red-breasted female, breed 2020 After multiples generations of crossing and selection, I finally reached during this breeding season 2020, … Birds 2020-11-22 22:30:26 2020/08/13 European wild quails (Coturnix coturnix), breed 2020. Young European quails (a male and a female) after the first moult. Breeding season 2020.They … Birds 2020-08-13 22:32:09 2020/07/14 Northern bobwhite “pearl” vs “Mexican speckled” bobwhite (females) I made the under-reported pictures to clearly show you the difference between the “pearl” colour-mutation … Birds 2020-07-14 23:00:35 2020/07/06 Chinese painted quail female, US red-breasted cinnamon A pretty dark-coloured female of US red-breasted cinnamon Chinese painted quail.This bird is born in … Birds 2020-07-06 22:38:25 2020/06/25 Two golden-pearl Fallow females of the Chinese painted quail, breeding season 2020 The birds above pictured are two young females of the Chinese painted quail in colour-combination … Birds 2020-06-25 00:57:20 2020/06/24 Young male of Chinese painted quail, red-breasted ivory Fallow In the spring of the breeding season 2020, I hatched a very pale Fallow chick … Birds 2020-06-24 23:50:18 2020/06/21 Chinese bamboo partridge chicks, 2020. For young birds of the Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus).Picture taken on: June 1st, 2020. … Chicks 2020-06-21 23:54:48 2020/06/21 Pearl and carriers for “Fallow” females of the Chinese Painted quail The birds above pictured are two nicely marked females of the Chinese painted quail.They are … Birds 2020-06-21 23:45:29 2020/06/21 Silver chukar partridge chicks (Alectoris chukar) The birds above pictured are the first “living” chicks born in my aviaries of the … Chicks 2020-06-21 23:22:27 2020/05/30 Chukar partridges chicks, wild vs recessive white, May 2020 Two young chicks of Chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar) approx. 10 days old, born in my … Chicks 2020-05-30 00:31:40 2020/05/24 “Celadon” chicks of the Japanese quail again in 2020! Yes, I continue hatching more chicks of the famous eggshell-mutation “Celadon” in 2020… 16.04.2020, the … Chicks 2020-05-24 22:31:27 2020/05/24 Other freshly hatched chicks of pure wild Chinese painted quail, May 2020. Pure wild birds from my two original breeding pairs and from the cross between youngs … Chicks 2020-05-24 22:08:34 2020/05/24 Ten days old chicks of Chinese bamboo partridge, May 2020 You will see below a few pictures of Chinese bamboo partridge chicks, approximately yen days … Chicks 2020-05-24 21:49:31 2020/05/24 Juveniles of pure Chinese painted quail, born in 2020 Some juvenile of genetically pure Chinese painted quail.Those birds come from pure wild breeding pairs … Birds 2020-05-24 21:22:09 2020/05/24 Juveniles of harlequin quail, born in 2020 Here are a few photos of some young harlequin quail born from my breeding this … Birds 2020-05-24 19:32:19 2020/05/24 Juveniles of European quail, born in 2020 I took advantage of the last rays of the sun, this Sunday, May 24St, 2020 … Birds 2020-05-24 19:15:12 2020/05/23 Day old chicks of “Fallow” Chinese painted quail, born on may, 2020. These two chicks are born on May 22st, 2020.It is difficult to predict the final … Chicks 2020-05-23 23:39:09 2020/03/22 DF blue-face brown Chinese painted quails, breeding birds. Double factor blue-face brown Chinese painted quails (Coturnix chinensis).Breeding birds for the season 2020.My objective … Birds 2020-03-22 22:06:36 2019/11/05 Hybrid birds between Northern bobwhite and Masked bobwhite, 2019 I firstly would like to precise that the below-pictured birds were not bred in my … Birds 2019-11-05 22:04:44 2019/10/22 Mutant F1 hybrid between Japanese quail and African Harlequin quail F1-bird at 45 days of age produced by the crossing of a ‘Sparkley’ mutant male … Birds 2019-10-22 01:16:26 2019/10/21 “Celadon” Japanese quail eggs, year 2019 Picture taken on October 21th, 2019 12 Eggs 2019-10-21 23:48:05 2019/10/15 Day-old chicks of pure wild Chinese painted quail Born on October 14th, 2019Probably the last four chicks of this breeding season. 123 Chicks 2019-10-15 22:11:14 2019/10/10 Harlequin quail chicks, October 2019 There are three African harlequin quail chicks (Coturnix delegorguei) born a little bit late in … Chicks 2019-10-10 23:23:16 2019/10/10 Jungle bush quail chicks, born in 2019 15 young chicks of Jungle bush quail (Perdicla asiatica) born on October 7th, 2019.They were … Chicks 2019-10-10 23:09:11 2019/09/30 Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted brown (cinnamon) female In the series of brown birds, the palette of shades is really very wide.This is … Birds 2019-09-30 00:16:28 2019/09/30 A particularly dark Chinese painted US Red-breasted silver female born in 2019 I regret that the bird had not already completed his moult when I toke those … Birds 2019-09-30 00:05:36 2019/09/29 Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted ivory male, bred in 2019. This is a combination of three recessive mutations together:1) US Red-breasted2) Silver3) Brown (cinnamon)It was … Birds 2019-09-29 23:41:41 2019/09/29 Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted tuxedo fallow female This is the only one og this colour-combination I have bred untill now…I just regret … Birds 2019-09-29 23:32:36 2019/09/29 Chinese painted quail, 2 males US-Redbreasted fallow variegated born in 2019 I don’t so often share pictures of variegated birds (except for Tuxedo’s) because I try … Birds 2019-09-29 02:04:13 2019/09/29 Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted male bred in 2019 A nice colored male of the US Red-breasted mutation born in my aviaries during the … Birds 2019-09-29 01:47:36 2019/09/29 Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted ivory female, bred in 2019 The bird above pictured is a US Red-breasted ivory female, born in 2019.Ivory is the … Birds 2019-09-29 01:34:09 2019/09/29 Chinese painted quail male, US Red-breasted silver, bred in 2019 A very nice US Red-breasted silver male born during the breeding season 2019.You clearly can … Birds 2019-09-29 01:23:04 2019/09/25 Comparison between African blue quail (Coturnix adansonii) and Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis) The males of the African blue quail (Coturnix adansonii) are quite easy to distinguish from … Articles 2019-09-25 01:00:23 2019/09/24 Male Chinese painted quail blue-faced, bred in 2018. The bird above pictured show what I consider to be the best expression of the … Birds 2019-09-24 00:06:19 2019/09/23 Chinese painted quail female, silver pearl fallow, bred in 2019. Honestly, it is the first one I ever have bred with this colour-combination and I … Birds 2019-09-23 23:27:16 2019/09/23 Chinese painted quail male, silver fallow, born in 2019 A young male showing us another nice colour-combination: silver + fallow.I let you enjoy.The pictures … Birds 2019-09-23 23:07:59 2019/09/23 Chinese painted quail male, US Red-breasted silver fallow, born in 2019. Another stunning bird born in my aviaries in 2019, with the combination of three recessive … Birds 2019-09-23 22:53:24 2019/09/23 Chinese painted quail male, US Red-breasted fallow, born in 2019. I remember that I really struggled so hard before I finally got this gene in … Birds 2019-09-23 22:37:16 2019/09/23 White recessive fallow Chinese painted quail male, born in 2019 This is now my second year breeding solid recessive white fallow birds.After a long selection … Birds 2019-09-23 01:20:13 2019/09/23 A genetically pure male of Chinese painted quail, bred 2019. Young male born in 2019 from one of my two breeding pairs of pure wild … Birds 2019-09-23 01:02:29 2019/09/19 Jungle bush quail eggs (Perdicula asiatica) A few eggs of Jungle bush quail (Perdicula asiatica).Put into the incubator on September 19 … Eggs 2019-09-19 00:13:08 2019/09/09 Chinese painted quail, brown pearl male Brown pearl male with the typical ‘White cap’, born in the breeding season 2012.The pearl … Birds 2019-09-09 21:58:42 2019/09/09 First hybrid chick between Japanese quail and Harlequin quail The pictures reported hereunder represents a day old chick resulting from the crossing between 1-0 … Chicks 2019-09-09 10:23:05 2019/09/05 Chinese painted quail males, Wild-coloured Fallow Pearl, born in 2014 Combination of 1 recessive mutation and 1 dominant mutation on the same bird:* Fallow (Pink … Birds 2019-09-05 22:14:24 2019/09/03 Freshly hatched Chukar partridge chicks (Alectoris chukar) in thermo-controlled maternity. Approximately 40 chicks of Chukar partridge just removed from the hatcher and put in growing … Chicks 2019-09-03 22:35:22 2019/09/03 September 2019, European quail (Coturnix coturnix) breeding cages before the ending of the breeding season for this species. True “wild” European quails (Coturnix coturnix) don’t lay so many eggs during the breeding season … Facilities 2019-09-03 22:09:01 2019/09/03 Chukar partridge eggs on incubating tray September 2th, 2019.A few 88 eggs more of Chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar) put into the … Eggs 2019-09-03 21:24:15 2019/09/03 Male of Madagascar partridge (Margaroperdix madagascarensis) Male alone after the sudden and unexpected death of his female during the spring of … Birds 2019-09-03 00:23:43 2019/08/29 Outside laying cages installations overview I have some outdoor breeding cage-blocks which are sheltered from rain and drafts while being … Facilities 2019-08-29 02:15:54 2019/08/29 Half-sider Chinese painted quail male, bred in 2013 In the year 2013, I raised a half-sider male of Chinese painted quail (Coturnix Chinensis).The … Birds 2019-08-29 01:05:21 2019/08/28 Harlequin quail x European quail hybrids, young birds 2 months old Look how the hybrids look like after 2 months, really stunning! 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627 Here a few … Birds 2019-08-28 23:30:00 2019/08/27 Comparison between Chinese painted quail chicks : US Red-breasted and US Red-breasted “Fallow” April 28th, 2013. A good picture is sometimes better than much explanations ! See how … Chicks 2019-08-27 00:58:11 2019/08/27 Big hatching of Japanese quail chicks, 2019 Chicks born on February 24th, 2019 123 Chicks 2019-08-27 00:30:58 2019/08/26 “Sparkley” mutation of the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica), young birds bred in 2019 Heredity of the gene is dominant.The pictures were taken in my “Photo-Studio” on February 16th, … Birds 2019-08-26 00:01:08 2019/08/25 Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis), Black-breasted males. Firsts specimens ever seen of “Black-breasted” males, those pictures were taken on May, 2014, then, … Birds 2019-08-25 00:11:22 2019/08/24 Chinese painted quail male, mutation US Red-breasted silver “Graukopf” In tribute to my excellent friend, the german breeder Norbert K.J. GEISSLER from Konstanz who … Birds 2019-08-24 23:37:28 2019/08/24 Chinese painted quail male, mutation US Red-breasted, typ “Darth vader” I have very often noticed that the term “Darth vader” is misused for ordinary male … Birds 2019-08-24 23:16:31 2019/08/24 A few young “Fallow” Chinese painted quails bred in 2019 1234567891011121314151617181920 Recessive white Fallow males, bred 2019 1234567 Birds 2019-08-24 22:58:18 2019/08/24 Chinese bamboo partridges (Bambusicola thoracicus), young birds born in 2019 Two young birds that are born early in season 2019.Sex still unknown at this time. … Birds 2019-08-24 22:38:11 2019/08/24 Jungle bush quails (Perdicula asiatica), breeding pair Male displays a white/black barred chest.Hen is all red.They are always very nervous birds, even … Birds 2019-08-24 22:17:35 2019/08/24 European quail (Coturnix coturnix), some breeding birds (2019) A few pictures of some breeding birds in season 2019. 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425 Birds 2019-08-24 01:04:29 2019/08/23 Pure wild Chinese painted quails (Coturnix chinensis) breeding pairs, 2019 Since a few years I had anymore of them, and it was very difficult to … Birds 2019-08-23 00:37:26 2019/08/22 Harlequin quail (Coturnix delegorguei) breeding birds, 2019 Male 123456789 Female 12345678910111213 Birds 2019-08-22 23:15:42 2019/08/22 Japanese quail chick born 2019 with a very unusual colouration One day chick, born on June 1st, 2019Marked with special colour foot ring to recognize … Chicks 2019-08-22 22:51:37 2019/08/21 Chinese painted quail male, US Red-breasted Fallow, variegated born in 2019. The pictures were taken on May 7th, 2019 12345678910 Birds 2019-08-21 23:47:28 2019/08/21 Arabian partridges (Alectoris melanocephala) breeding pair 2019 Breeding pair for breeding season 2019, the pictures were taken on February 3th, 2019 123 Birds 2019-08-21 23:30:23 2019/08/21 Comparison between wild-coloured Japanese quail and wild-coloured “Sparkley” Japanese quail, males On these photos of adult males taken on July 24th, 2019, we can very clearly … Birds 2019-08-21 23:23:13 2019/08/21 Brown mutation of the Chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar), breeding pair Female 1234567 Male 12345678 Birds 2019-08-21 23:00:07 2019/08/21 Harlequin quail x European quail hybrids chicks, born June 2019 Successful hybridization between a pure male of harlequin quail (Coturnix delegorguei) and a pure female … Chicks 2019-08-21 22:29:27 2019/08/21 Rain quail, breeding male (Coturnix coromandelica) 12345678910 Birds 2019-08-21 22:00:20 2019/08/21 Wild-coloured and recessive white Chukar partridge chicks comparison (Alectoris chukar) Day-old chicks, the pictures were taken on June 23th, 2019. 12345 2 weeks old chicks. … Chicks 2019-08-21 10:48:57 2019/08/20 California valley quail chicks (Callipepla californica), born on 2019 Born June 23th, 2019 123 Chicks 2019-08-20 23:58:51 2019/08/20 Recessive white chukar partridges chicks (Alectoris chukar) born on 2019 Approx. 2 weeks old young recessive white Chukar partridges (Alectoris chukar). The pictures was taken … Chicks 2019-08-20 23:52:03 2019/08/20 Chicks comparison between Alectoris chukar and Alectoris rufa species Chicks born on the 2019, approx. 2 weeks old.The difference is very significative at the … Chicks 2019-08-20 23:41:35 2019/08/20 Red-legged partridge chicks (Alectoris rufa) born on 2019 12345 Chicks 2019-08-20 23:32:11 2019/08/20 Grey partridge chicks (Perdix perdix) born on the year 2019 Born July 11th, 2019 123456 Born August 18th, 2019 1234567 Chicks 2019-08-20 23:24:54 2019/08/20 Well, most of the Crested bobwhites (Colinus cristatus) have disappeared … In the same vein of one my previous posts about the rain quail (Coturnix coromandelica) … Articles 2019-08-20 23:12:56 2019/08/20 Young pure wild Chinese painted quails (Coturnix chinensis) born in 2019 See below a few pictures of some genetically pure wild Chinese painted quails (Coturnix chinensis), … Birds 2019-08-20 22:33:06 2019/08/20 Head and breast difference between European, rain and harlequin quails I wanted for a long time making this picture,clearly showing the significant differences between three … Birds 2019-08-20 12:17:56 2019/08/20 Development and building of my own breeding cages for Chinese painted quails (Coturnix chinensis) Because I could find nothing on the market that was really suitable for raising small … Facilities 2019-08-20 00:37:53 2019/08/19 The market truly invaded by a lot of rain quail (Coturnix coromandelica) in Belgium and in the Netherlands … Well, what happened ?I remember that in Belgium and in the Netherlands a few years … Articles 2019-08-19 23:23:22 2019/08/19 5 months old female of “Celadon” Japanese quail Out of the only 5 fertile “Celadon” eggs I received from the U.S.A. I hatched … Birds 2019-08-19 21:58:53 2019/08/19 2nd generation of “Celadon” Japanese quail chicks Chicks born in my aviaries on June 2th, 2019. 123456789 Chicks born in my aviaries … Chicks 2019-08-19 01:15:59 2019/08/19 “Celadon” Japanese quail chicks born out the USA-imported eggs : 30 eggs arrived from the U.S.A. to me and finally 5 chicks hatched but it … Chicks 2019-08-19 01:06:10 2019/08/19 First eggs of the “Celadon” mutation of the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) laid in my aviaries in 2019 06.05.2019 First “Celadon” eggs laid in my aviaries from birds born out the USA-Imported eggs … Eggs 2019-08-19 00:53:13 2019/08/19 Importation from the U.S.A of eggs of the “Celadon” mutation of the Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) It was as usual not easy to do that, but a few eggs of the … Eggs 2019-08-19 00:46:33 2019/08/18 Day-old chicks of Blue scaled quail (Callipepla squamata) Born 23.06.2019 123 Born 18.08.2019 123456 Chicks 2019-08-18 14:04:37 2019/08/16 Day-old chicks of wild European quail (Coturnix coturnix) See below some pictures of pure European migratory quail (Coturnix coturnix) bred in my aviaries … Chicks 2019-08-16 11:22:14 2019/08/16 First 4 Blue scaled quails (Callipepla squamata) bred in 2019 See below a few pictures of the first 4 chicks of Blue scaled quail (Callipepla … Birds 2019-08-16 11:11:21 2019/08/16 Selection of true “Jumbo” Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) A little everywhere in Belgium and abroad I saw appear advertisements and/or publications of breeders … Eggs 2019-08-16 10:54:55 2019/08/16 Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus) chicks First chick of Chinese bamboo partridge (Bambusicola thoracicus) born in my aviaries in 2019 : … Chicks 2019-08-16 01:37:51 2019/08/15 Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis) block of breeding cages This breeding cage facility makes it possible to hold up to 54 trio’s of Chinese … Facilities 2019-08-15 23:59:52 2019/08/15 European quail (Coturnix coturnix) breeding cages Take a look at my 18 breeding cages for wild European quail (Coturnix coturnix). Still … Facilities 2019-08-15 10:57:29 2019/08/15 Barred buttonquail (Turnix suscitator) breeding boxes See below some pictures of the boxes I developed for Barred buttonquail (Turnix suscitator) These … Facilities 2019-08-15 01:23:43 2019/08/14 Let’s go! My new website is officially launched today 14.08.2019 After a lot of unsuccessful attempts, I … Unclassified 2019-08-14 13:46:20