I’ve been out of the quail loop for a bit, but I believe Italian and pansy are 2 distinct, different genes, however, since Italian is incompletely dominant, it can bleed out over several generations, affecting the patterns of the various offspring. So if you crossed a pansy to a manchurian...
According to Myshire they should all be fee. I thought possibly autumn amber fee because fenrisulfr had shown pics a while back of Egyptian single factor fees that were pale orangy. But as these guys get more patterning I started to think maybe pansy.
I’m not saying what Myshire said was...
This chick is 3 weeks old as of yesterday. I have 2 from the snowie hatch that are tinted orange, and have more black patterning than the other Italians. I’m wondering if this is what single factor fee looks like on autumn amber, or if this is pansy fee, or something else. If it helps I can take...