Italian Japanese Quail
A variety of the Japanese Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Laying
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About the Italian Japanese Quail
Italian is the heterozygous fawn (single roux-dilute) colour — a golden-straw body marked with neat black 'V' shapes on each feather and a clean pale face, much brighter than wild Pharaoh. The fawn gene is autosomal and incompletely dominant, so two Italians produce a mix of Italian, Manchurian and Pharaoh chicks. Productive and quick-maturing like all Coturnix.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 280
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Standard
- Incubation
- 17 days
- Broodiness
- None
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- East Asia
- Scientific name
- Coturnix japonica