Here are a few photos of some young harlequin quail born from my breeding this spring 2020.
NB: For this season I have kept only three breeding pairs.
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Juveniles of harlequin quail, born in 2020
Juveniles of European quail, born in 2020
I took advantage of the last rays of the sun, this Sunday, May 24St, 2020 to take a few pictures of the first young quail born in my breeding this spring.
These are 2 young males and two young females from the breeding couple number 6.
I really hope they will become even so beautiful as their parents, their mother is particularly gorgeous, I will say certainly the most beautiful I now have.
Enjoy the pics!
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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 is to produce solid dark brown birds, without white patches anymore.
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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 aviaries but well bought from another breeder.
They normally should have been pure specimens of the Masked bobwhite (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) but a quick 5 seconds examination confirmed that there is without any doubt blood of Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) mixed inside…
I have no idea how much %, F1 or F2? and the exact mating(s) done…
Male:
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Female:
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This is a little “head comparison” collage I made of the two pure species and my “hybrid” bird in the middle… I think it helps to understand better!
It is quite difficult to determine how much % blood of common Northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) is present in the genotype of those hybrid birds but, in my opinion, the breeder crossed more that one time …
I will not try to make the same collage with female heads because the difference is most on the back for hens.
Mutant F1 hybrid between Japanese quail and African Harlequin quail
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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 even difficult for me to understand.
Here is a really dark bird that was born this year 2019.
My personal taste goes for these darker birds as they have more contrast and better marks. Pale brown birds are often fuzzy, especially on the back.
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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 pictures on September 22th, 2019 but in all the cases I will take better snaps in a few weeks.
I photographed this bird because he seemed very dark to me, I mean very blue.
However she doesn’t come from my “Graukopf” bloodlines, I already paired this female with a young US Red-breasted silver type “Graukopf”
I am curious to see how the progeniture will look like!
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Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted ivory male, bred in 2019.
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Chinese painted quail, US Red-breasted tuxedo fallow female
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Chinese painted quail, 2 males US-Redbreasted fallow variegated born in 2019
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