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I've been breeding blue slates and bourbon reds for a few years now, it seams alot easier to get bourbon's then slates. I'd really like to bring some fresh blood in but i'm looking for decent quality (been selecting mine for show and meat), i've gone out to see a couple and they were poor...

Weird how? Post a picture

just wanted to share some photos of my blue barred project

with goldens (that are not manchurian) they are feather sexable.... the black speckled breasted ones are the females, the clear breasted red heads are males. The tux isnt a tiebetan, its rosetta, just looks like the real red end of the spectrum, mine are all in a bad moult or i would take a...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/734373/the-ultimate-comprehensive-coturnix-color-guide is the post in question.... we have been building it over time, and i just go back to the first post and edit in the new pictures and what not but suddenly i can't? help!

the top one is a rosetta tux, it looks really red in this pic but i think it might be a play on light? I know in my rosetta line i get alot of males in particular that are redder like that. 2nd is a rosetta also like you said, last one is a female speckled Italian... males will not have that...

seams as though i'm having problems editing the original post :(

There is a companion thread ultimate color guide or something, minds fuzzing over. As for silver, it wont just pop up, its dominant lethal, so a bird that has the gene expresses it. You would need a silver, cream blue or charcoal to get it. You can cross your white with other colors to get...

nice golden tux!

I know my rabbits well, and basics on chickens but havent seen any laid out for coturnix, any one know of a site? I know wild type is dominent, and I know silver is dominent(2 copies equal dead also) but what about te rest? Range seams recessive, golden recessive but those im guessing at... Now...

Bump, have a few more to add when they molt

There are quite a few coturnix colors... Do a site search for ultimate color guide lol there is even blue! Will try and bump it

I have a good flock already but want to bring in fresh blood. Im breeding for both sjow and table, so am after hatching eggs frim big bodied birds free of defects. Pm me if you will have what im after at some point. I could buy or trade

i dont know off the top f my head... i havent weighed them in quite some time, the last one i weighed was a 2year old tom for 40 lbs

I've been working on my blue slates for a while now and i want to bring in some fresh blood, i'm trying to work on size and carcas quality in addition to plumage... i've made good strides but want some fresh blood, everything i'm seeing around is too small. Can anyone point me towards a good...