Hi! Yesterday I hatched 20 japanese quail chicks. The eggs were from my flock, which is composed from:
Roo: Manchurian
Hens: 2 Pharaoh, 1 Italian, 2 Manchurian.
There also are 4 Button quails with them: 2 silver (male and female) and 2 pearl (male and female), but I don't think it's relevant.
So... I was expecting only yellow with black stripes chicks, but I got 3 of these with only ore really light stripe.
Is there a recessive (or non really visible in heterozygous) gene along my flock? Are these 3 Manchurian and all the others Italian?
Normal
Light chick
Plus, there are also some chicks with many speckles on the head, it's just a normal / not selected expression of the fawn or it's something else?
These are the speckles I was talking about
Thank you!
Roo: Manchurian
Hens: 2 Pharaoh, 1 Italian, 2 Manchurian.
There also are 4 Button quails with them: 2 silver (male and female) and 2 pearl (male and female), but I don't think it's relevant.
So... I was expecting only yellow with black stripes chicks, but I got 3 of these with only ore really light stripe.
Is there a recessive (or non really visible in heterozygous) gene along my flock? Are these 3 Manchurian and all the others Italian?
Normal
Light chick
Plus, there are also some chicks with many speckles on the head, it's just a normal / not selected expression of the fawn or it's something else?
These are the speckles I was talking about
Thank you!