Blue Faced Button Quail
A variety of the Button Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Blue Faced Button Quail
Blue Face is the Extended Brown mutation (an incomplete-dominant melanic gene sharing the p.Glu92Lys MC1R change with Japanese quail's Extended Brown), which strips the wild bib and turns the bird largely brown-black with orange feet; double-factor birds are entirely dark. The name comes from the blue-grey cast over the cock's face. It is a well-established mutation on the same small, easy King Quail.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Ornamental
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 16 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Moderate
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- South-east Asia / Australasia
- Scientific name
- Excalfactoria chinensis