Anoles, Quails, and Maybe Cattails
Coturnix Quail Varieties
Coturnix quail come in many beautiful varieries, and it can be enjoyable to breed quail for a specific trait. Below is a table showing some of these varieties.
The table will cover:
- Colors & Patterns
- Additional info
- Whether a Variety is feather sexable
| Wild Type | ||
|---|---|---|
| Brown and stripey | Males have reddish chests, females have buff chests w/ speckles | Feather Sexable |
| Italian | ||
| Cream body color, black/deep brown speckles | Males have redder chests, females have cream chests w/ speckles | Feather Sexable |
| Rosetta | ||
| Brown w/ gold/cream lacing | Not Feather Sexable | |
| Tibetian | ||
| Rich, dark chocolate brown | Not Feather Sexable | |
| Manchurian | ||
| Looks like a darker version of the Italian with medium cream body. Has little to no speckles. Males have blackish faces. | Males have a reddish chest and females have speckles on chest. | Feather Sexable |
| Scarlet | ||
| Lovely, brick orange-red color | Roux Dilute x Rosetta | Not Feather Sexable |
| Red Range | ||
| Deep vibrant red color. Similar to the Scarlet, slightly deeper red. Breed with a white quail for a beautiful red tuxedo. | Roux Dilute x Tibetian | Not Feather Sexable |
| Calico | ||
| These quail are autosommal recessive. According to Maine's Confetti Quail Farm, "[These quail can] be feather sexed by the face markings. Males will have a dark face mask. Both male and female will have solid colored chests (no speckling). | Not Feather Sexable | |
| Pied | ||
|---|---|---|
| White bird with any color spots on body. | Italian pied is really pretty! | Not Feather Sexable |
| English White/Texas A & M | ||
| White, some individuals may have a black spot on head. | Breeding this bird with a base color will produe tuxedo quail. | Not Feather Sexable |
| Tuxedo | ||
| Any variety coloration with white chest & face | Almost every variety can be bred with an Eng White/ Texas A & M to produce this coloration. | Not Feather Sexable |
| Roux Dilute | ||
| This bird looks like a Wild Type, only slightly redder. | This beautiful bird can be bred with a few other varieties to produce stunning offspring | Feather Sexable |
| Lavender | ||
| This is more of a gene than a variety, this gene causes brown feathers to be replaced with light blue-grey and reddish feathers to a cream color. | Depends | |
| Silver/ Blue | ||
| This gene gives feathers a greyish color. | Depends | |
| Celadon | ||
|---|---|---|
| This gene doesn't change feathers, it instead changes the color of the eggshell to a pretty light blue. | Depends | |
| Pearl Fee | ||
|---|---|---|
| This is a beatiful quail. The chicks are yellow with thin black stripes, and the adults are a creamish, silvery, whiter version of wild types. | Fee gene x Italian | Feather Sexable |
| Falb Fee | ||
| This is a beatiful quail. The chicks are yellow with thin black stripes, and the adults are a creamish, silvery, whiter version of wild types. | Fee gene x | Feather Sexable |
| Fairy Fee | ||
| This is a beatiful quail. The chicks are yellow with thin black stripes, and the adults are a creamish, silvery, whiter version of wild types. | Fee gene x | Feather Sexable |
Photos & Illustrations of The Varieties
Wild Type
This illustration shows the difference between an adult male (left) and an adult female (right).
Wild Type Male
Male Wild Types have reddish faces, which are very promement in the summer.
Wild Type Female
Female Wild Types are very easy to distinguish from males. Notice the buff colored face with coffee colored stripes.
Pied
This is a female pied quail. The pied markings have Italian coloration.
Texas A & M
This is a female Texas A & M quail. She is pure white with a brownish black splotch on her head.
Tuxedo
This is a male tuxedo with Tibetian markings.