Quail Eggs of all colors?

[quailbrain]

I just got home from a friends house. She recently hatched out some coturnix chicks and I am going to get a few so I can switch out with my new coturnix for the bloodlines. She was showing me the eggs she hatched out. There were a few hundred eggs she got for someone she knows cause she has the incubator and loves hatching for people. The eggs I just hatched out were all cream colored with varying levels of brown spots. My eggs were sold to me as Tuxedo Coturnix. Many of the eggs she had were completely white or almost blue. She said the eggs were Jumbo Brown and Texas. I'm fairly new to these birds but do certtain colors lay differnt eggs?? That sounds stupid me even saying cause I doubt the feater colord of the same breed has anything to do with it so I guess the better question is Why? Why did she have the three different colors of eggs in the incubator. She didn't know when I asked but I would love to know if anyone knows???

 

[KellyHM]

Coturnix can lay many different colors of eggs. I even get one that's sparkly silver. Their feather color doesn't matter. It depends on what egg color genetics they carry. Just like EEs can have any color feathers, but they lay blue eggs b/c they carry the blue egg gene.

 

[JJMR794]

white as in plain white? like the eating eggs from the grocery store?

 

[citalk2much]

Here are my eggs for today they are from jumbo brown and one golden

 

[shelleyd2008]

Feather color, or variation, of coturnix has nothing to do with egg color. The key identifier with coturnix eggs is the spots, though it is possible to get pure white coturnix eggs.

 

[monarc23]

The amazing thing about coturnix is they are like Easter Eggers of the quail world laying many beautifully different colored and spotted and patterend eggs. But no, their variatons in color have almost nothing to do with the color of their feathers....like Kelly said it's more about their internal genetics. My friend on here has goldens that lay GREEN eggs some with very light spotting others wiht big spottings (and green).... my goldens lay the normal classic big tannish white egg with big black brown spots. My tibetans and tuxedos lay blue eggs most of the time, either spotted with blue or solid blue (which is awesome)... but evne so sometimes their eggs look exactly like my jumbo browns and goldens eggs the only way i know them apart is because I keep my colors in separate pens.

One cool thing I notice is most tibetans and tuxedos (my birds) lay pointier eggs

Some people automatically think that A & Ms must lay pure white eggs whch is far from the case

I think i've seen every color egg a coturnix can lay now, from blue to brown.....it's awesome

The same bird can lay pretty much any pattern... with or withotu a milky tinge

 

[Kansaseq]

Quote:
I just love beautiful eggs. Could we see a pic of the sparkly silver one, PLEASE?

 

[country freedom]

Oh, now this is just grand! Just by showing pictures of speckled eggs, you got me hooked on quail! I've got to begin researching everything about the different species and variations of each one, just because of those speckled eggs.

 

[maran magpie]

Just curious if any one has any blue or green cortunix eggs they could show some pics of.I didnt know they came in either of these color.

 

[KellyHM]

Quote:
I just love beautiful eggs. Could we see a pic of the sparkly silver one, PLEASE?

Our house got broken into a few weeks ago and they stole my digital camera among other things

so I can't pot any pics right now.

I have one that also lays a blue egg every now and then...almost like the speckles got left off.

One of these days I'll get another camera...