Wild Type Button Quail
A variety of the Button Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Ornamental
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About the Wild Type Button Quail
The original, unmutated colouring and the only variety guaranteed to breed true. Cocks carry the classic King Quail livery: a brown-and-black patterned back with pale shafting, a bold black-and-white facial bib and a rich slate-blue front giving way to a rusty-chestnut breast; hens are mottled brown with cream faces. As the natural form of this thumb-sized, ground-dwelling aviary bird, it is the baseline against which every colour mutation is judged.
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