Silver Japanese Quail
A variety of the Japanese Quail
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Laying
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About the Silver Japanese Quail
Silver is an autosomal incomplete-dominant mutation: one copy gives a light silver-grey bird with the base pattern faintly showing through, two copies a near-white pale cream. Homozygous Silver is linked to slower growth and later maturity than other colours. Otherwise a normal egg-and-meat 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