Coturnix Quail Pictures and Color Identification

Robo · Jan 30, 2011

Here is a way to tell what kind of birds you have or for your entertainment. These are the most common colors, I listed almost all except for fawn and some extremely rare ones. Here it is...

Colors

Jumbo Brown-
Female

Male (In Back)

Chick-

Tibetian/Rosetta

Chick-

Manchurian

Male

Female

Chick-

Tuxedo

Adult-

Chick-

English White/Texas A&M

Adult-

Chick-

Eggs-

Compared to a large chicken egg

The ones I didn't include a sex for can't be feather sexed. Thanks for looking!!

pringle · Jan 30, 2011

Does the manchurin female have spots on the chest or not?Becouse I have a quail that hatched out and looks just like that.

Robo · Jan 30, 2011

Yes, but it is very light in most cases. Some of my females have redish slits instead of spots.

shelleyd2008 · Jan 31, 2011

It is not tibetian, it is tibetan. But to get really specific, that bird is a rosetta tibetan or british range.

And your tux is technically a rosetta tuxedo.

You also forgot dark tibetan (dark british range), red, red tuxedo, fawn/cinnamon (which you stated), and dark tibetan tuxedo. I'm sure there are probably others as well. All these colors can be seen on quailladyoffortmyers website at http://stellargamebirds.com/Japanese-Quail-Mutationsnewpage.html

ETA: The ones she lists as the 'dilute' are the fawn/cinnamons as we know them.
Just for color reference, this picture has a dark tibetan (dark range) tuxedo next to a red coturnix. The difference between a dark and a rosetta is the lack of 'pencilling' or 'straw' markings on the feathers.

Dark:

Rosetta:

Then there's this one, one that some believe is just another form of rosetta. I think they are distinctly different, we shall see

I was told it was a different type of range, called a golden range. But I'm no expert.

joe125 · Jan 31, 2011

I'm no expert on coturnix colors either, but I do know this....People argue all the time about coturnix colors

Come spring; I'm going to whittle my stock down to: Whites,Browns, and Duke's Mixture.

Qwerty303 · Aug 18, 2012

this was verry helpfull !!! thanks

Gezellige_Poes · Sep 3, 2022

Robo said:
Here is a way to tell what kind of birds you have or for your entertainment. These are the most common colors, I listed almost all except for fawn and some extremely rare ones. Here it is...

Colors

Jumbo Brown-
Female

Male (In Back)

Chick-

Tibetian/Rosetta

Chick-

Manchurian

Male

Female

Chick-

Tuxedo

Adult-

Chick-

English White/Texas A&M

Adult-

Chick-

Eggs-

Compared to a large chicken egg

The ones I didn't include a sex for can't be feather sexed. Thanks for looking!!

Wow, this post is from 2011 - Thank you so much for the info and pics!!! Popped in a search for ideas of what Coturnix quail babies will look like as adults. I had a hatch 31 Aug - 1 Sep 2022, 7 babies, a 53% hatch rate!

Really a miracle considering the circumstances: hen loss, suspect age related issues, and a male recently re-introduced, also up in age. I gathered eggs, not expecting any to hatch.

QuailTail · Sep 3, 2022

Has anyone made an updated version of this post with more colours? Would be so good!

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