Hobbyist bird breeding farm in Liege Province, Belgium
A pretty dark-coloured female of US red-breasted cinnamon Chinese painted quail.
This bird is born in my aviaries during the breeding season 2020, the pictures were taken on July 5th, 2020.
This female is already destined to reproduce the next breeding season and will integrate a duo composed of a solid wild coloured US red-breasted male and a dark US red-breasted silver female.
The birds above pictured are two young females of the Chinese painted quail in colour-combination golden-pearl Fallow: this is the combination of the dominant mutation pearl and the recessive gene Fallow.
Those birds are born in my aviaries at the beginning of the breeding season 2020 and result from parents carrier of the gene Fallow.
They are strong and heavy birds.
In the spring of the breeding season 2020, I hatched a very pale Fallow chick that after a few weeks resulted to be red-breasted ivory. This is the combination of 4 recessive colour-mutations on the same phenotype: red-breasted, silver, brown (cinnamon) and Fallow.
This combination produces a very pale silver bird practically without markings on the back and with an extremely light orange breast.
I imagine that such a colour-combination on a female should produce an even lighter coloured bird.
I let you enjoy the pictures!
The birds above pictured are two nicely marked females of the Chinese painted quail.
They are also carriers for the “Fallow”-gene aka “pink-eyed dilute” firstly discovered in 1999 and reinforced/established by Garrie J.LANDRY, in Louisiana, U.S.A.
These two females will be used in 2021 with pure Fallow birds to build up a new breeding line.
I toke the pictures on June 1st, 2020.
Pure wild birds from my two original breeding pairs and from the cross between youngs born in 2019. (2 pairs more)
You can easily see how dark the chicks are!
Some juvenile of genetically pure Chinese painted quail.
Those birds come from pure wild breeding pairs that carry no mutation inside their genotype.
Pictures were taken on May 24th, 2020.
These two chicks are born on May 22st, 2020.
It is difficult to predict the final colour they will have, but for sure, they will be both Fallow: bright pink eyes don’t deceive.
In my opinion, the clearest one should become US red-breasted silver Fallow and the other one a Brown Tuxedo Fallow.
More pictures of them will be added in the coming days!
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.
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!
