Coturnix Quail Color Varieties 

Kansas city quail farms would beg to differ on the size differences. Jumbo meat makers are much bigger than standard. They all might be the same species but they are selective bred for what you want. My jumbo meat makers are double the size of my standard ones and the eggs they lay are nearly twice the size too.

You bear a remarkable resemblance of my brother...took my breath away for a second, he passed 10 years ago. Thank You for the vid, very informative.

Reality is jumbo is a term given to meat coturnix as they are selective bred to be bigger. Non are called brown that's a seperate quail that's not coturnix called the common brown quail which isn't same bird as coturnix. Standard size wild type coturnix and jumbos are the breed japenese pharaoh both the same colour just ones bred to be a bigger coturnix. Then you have italians and english whites and other colours of the same bird species that can be bred to jumbo size.

With my recent batch of Coturnix quail I noticed significant size difference. This video helped. Now I'm going to choose the largest male to mate for future quail generations. Thanks.

Finally , a thorough review of quails. Great info, please keep making more varieties of quail reviews .

I hatched eggs sold as jumbo, and celadon (Blue eggs, from another farm) which hatch as a variety of feather colors and patterns. The "jumbos" are huge in comparison to the others. I assume the jumbos have been selectively bred for larger size, so you are right that they technically aren't different, but I will continue breeding my "jumbos" selectively based on weight. The others I will breed for color pattern and blue egg laying.

A jumbo quail is determined by the age and weight no matter the breed. If it’s 10ozs at 10weeks old then it’s technically considered a jumbo.

Finally! I’ve been looking all over to find another bird that looked like mine, your darker silver looks just like mine!

Wow great breeds and good setup Thank you

I keep them as pets, I just ordered mixed fertile quail eggs. I just wanted them as pets so I didn't care much, I just wanted them to look different so I could tell them apart easily, and I got that. I incubated 12 eggs and 6 hatched (apparently that's normal, you should get 1/2 - 1/3). I gave 2 away and kept 4, so I now have 5 (I was hatching them as companions for one I had as it lost its companion - long story), 3 females and 2 males as it turns out. They were just maturing last autumn and the males got a bit feisty, but settled down over the winter but now it's spring we had to seperate the males and we put one with one female and one with two. We are thinking of incubating some eggs (probably 6 to get 2 or 3) later in the year (when our friend isn't using her incubator and can let us borrow it), around June.

Thank you for the wonderful information

I use to live on a farm full of quails I raised 2000 quails but then a huge tornado ripped through my farm and All I saw was birds flying away I lost all my birds but now I moved to another farm and have 803 quails

there are regular brown quail and jumbo brown. most have been crossed so its hard to find a true jumbo, but if you can find a true jumbo they are noticeably bigger

I definitely need more varieties.

I took 5 coturnix quail eggs from the same brown female quail the only female that I have with a red male and I hatched all 5 eggs and had 3 different color variations one of the quail chicks is 100% white and is the smallest of the 5 chicks at 6 weeks old now.

The jumbo Browns I’ve raised are 14oz

Yes, the Italians are beautiful! Wish I could get some of them to be in a cage next to my Texas A&Ms!

Good info thank you so much

Great info. As always. Thank you.

Those birds need a dust bath. Some light and fresh air would be nice too.

the only color advantage ive really noticed is white birds are easier to pluck. a poultry farmer explained it like this. the color pigment is like a gel pen ink pushed out the feather folical and it can make them slightly...and i mean slightly harder to remove from the bird then a white or pigmentless feather. not sure if this is "scientific" but i have noticed my english whites are easier to get the wing pin feathers off and though feathers on the side and back that are sometimes more resistant plucking. could be a load of fooey but just my experience.

I am starting my own quail mini farm i just want them for eggs can I feed them Turkey feed?

The different colors do carry different genes so there are potentially small disparities in disposition, egg production, health issues….

0:25 I love this bird!

Why quail eggs shell are different from one another? What plain white shell indicate?

You make it sound like no such thing as Jumbo browns . I hate to tell you , there is . Now , the part where everyone clams that their wild coturnix are jumbos is what I hate .It took me years to find real jumbos again . Some are over 16 ounces .

Jumbos are the same species. Just a group that has breed to be larger.

hi urban aviary i would like to ask a question would it be the best idea to put 1 male every 4 females or should it be more females to 1 male?

I disagree about the jumbos. In my experience, there are jumbo varieties of the brown.

VERY FRUSTRATED I'm looking for STANDARD English quail eggs NOT JUMBO. I can't find ANY. Please advise and thanks.

Yeah my jumbos are literally 3 times the size of my standards. Anything over 350 grams is considered jumbo though my largest was 525 grams(average about 440).jumbos are literally bred by picking the largest and continually breeding the largest in each generation. Jumbo browns are those lines bred to be larger as opposed to standard browns which haven't been linebred for size

thanks good info

I'm thinking about buying more hens. If you ever get more, do you put the new quail with your groups or do you try and keep them separate? Also, when are you able to tell the gender of your quail based on their feathers? Thanks so much for posting your videos.

I don't see any one raising bob white quail...I know they are larger but was wondering if their meat tastes different than a cortunix quail?? Enjoy your videos! Thanks!!!

The yellow and brown lab example is not the best as those are the same breed of dogs , while the different varieties of Coturnix can be different breeds too , Japanese Coturnix is the species , then there are several breeds and colors .

Great info thank you. I will say if you like Italian - you would love Golden Giants. The male has no spots and soo beautiful to look at. My most calm and placid color type. I have seven male birds living in one large pen atm and they all get along. At one point I thought a couple of the males were not actually mating and being far too gentle with their girls. It seems they do just fine - but even with 1 male to 3 hens - no bald spots or feathers out of place. Could be genetics but the birds come from several different breeders to prevent inbreeding.

son la misma especie, sólo que al cruzarse en la misma línea filial (inbreeding) resultan fenotipos variables

hi Urban. i am from South Africa and i struggle a lot to find Coturnix Quail here. Now the first question is will they do fine here by me, it gets in the summer around 40 degrees Celsius and the winter go seldom below 0 degrees Celsius. Do you know of someone that might be interested in sponsoring me some eggs to incubate. We have chickens and it is going well with them and now we want to start with Quails for some extra income( selling eggs mostly ). Can you please help? Thanks for the video :)

I have a pharo/brown quails and 1 has a pure white chest. What would it's gender be?

Such cruel cages. No hides, no dustbaths, earth, plants nothing

I heard the jumbo's should weigh between 300-350 grams and the collossal weigh between 350-430 grams

How do you go about getting the different colored quail? I have 5 brown baby coturnix quails but 2 are males only 3 females. I don't want to kill a boy so I'd love to add a couple of different colored females to the bunch. Thanks.

so Is your Silver Quail what I have been calling lavender?

Thanks. :D

Color matters. In the wild. Some varieties have different demeanors.

How much are your eggs a dozen

Where can I buy the white quails?

Should I be selecting the biggest eggs ? Will this hatch out bigger sized quail? Also, I got a mixed lot of eggs (all different colors) how many generations until they breed true?

How can you make them sit on there eggs mine just wont sit and the eggs never hatched

Hey, sorry if this sounds kinda dumb 😂 but can you tell if a coturnix quail egg is going to hatch to be a different color than the normal color?

Nice video!! What specie you recommend for egg production?

ive had my 2 roo quail for 6 days and i yet to hear them do there crow any idea why

Where can I get the Italian quail eggs?

Can brown jumbo quails have white quail

thankyou so much! this is a great help.

The one that eats the most and is the laziest will be the big gestures

my quail stopped laying. what should I do?

I have a tuxedo. Where do these fit in?

Why do you keep them in an enclosure with nothing to do or look at? No nature, no toys... just a wire floor and wood framing. Very sad.

i bred a normal brown with a tuxedo and got the "tibetan"? correct my spelling lol

I have a quail that fights or pecks on others what can I do

Anyone wanting to find good stock to start with at a good price . MyShire farm has good stock at cheaper prices .

And just to add to the great info, these are Japanese quail (Coturnix Japonica) in opposed to Common quail (Coturnix coturnix communis)

6:24 the ordering information on

can I buy some Italian quail eggs from you

4:51 they are pecking one quails eye out

Colorism in birds...tisk tisk

Has anyone ever considered breeding for intelligence? If not why not?

I always say that. Colour has nothing to do with personality. Yet everyone just wants to argue about it.

Do quails have inbred problems?!

these ones ......learn to speak

Good video.