The first hatch of chicks are adults now! The project is kind of on the back burner since I've been dealing with holidays/being ill, but there's definitely a few hens in there that I'll be holding back.
Oh, absolutely. I'm always blown away at how quickly their generations go - I remember seeing that Thieving Otter Farms bred black quail in two years, which is crazy to me! I know a lot of our quail keepers here work on calm and docile temperaments, and I definitely have considered hatching only...
I know quail have crazy amounts of color combinations and I've seen papers about curly feathers and so on in quail, but I definitely don't see the same sort of variation as we have in chickens. I got it into my head after seeing bearded/muffed chickens to see if we could breed for fluffier...