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Chinese painted quail male, US Red-breasted fallow, born in 2019.
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White recessive fallow Chinese painted quail male, born in 2019
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A genetically pure male of Chinese painted quail, bred 2019.
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Chinese painted quail, brown pearl male
Chinese painted quail males, Wild-coloured Fallow Pearl, born in 2014
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Half-sider Chinese painted quail male, bred in 2013
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Comparison between Chinese painted quail chicks : US Red-breasted and US Red-breasted “Fallow”
Chinese painted quail (Coturnix chinensis), Black-breasted males.
The first specimens ever seen of “Black-breasted” males, those pictures were taken in May 2014, and then I took better shots in my “photo cage”.
Black-breasted male 1 of 3 :
Black-breasted male 2 of 3 :
Black-breasted male 3 of 3 :
Very unusually coloured females tend to regularly appear in the offspring of my “Black-breasted” bloodlines. There is an example of a “Grey bib” Red-breasted pearl female from 2019 :
Black-breasted male, offspring of breeding season 2024, pictured in January 2025.
This male comes from the same bloodline of the 3 birds I started with ten years ago!
Chinese painted quail male, mutation US Red-breasted silver “Graukopf”
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