Brown Jumbo Coturnix
A variety of the Jumbo Coturnix
Quail · Speckled cream eggs · Meat
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About the Brown Jumbo Coturnix
The brown Coturnix carries the Extended Brown (EB) mutation, which boosts eumelanin to wash the wild-type pattern into a far darker, redder bird. As an incomplete-dominant gene it shows two forms: heterozygous Rosetta is an almost wholly reddish-brown bird with light feather shafts and mottled pink-and-brown toes, while homozygous Tibetan is a near-uniform dark brown to near-black with darker feet. Unlike feather-sexable Pharaoh, EB birds lack the sex-linked breast cue. On the Jumbo frame this darker colour is combined with the same large, quick-maturing, productive meat bird.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Speckled cream
- Eggs per year
- About 250
- Purpose
- Meat
- Sizes
- Jumbo
- Incubation
- 17 days
- Broodiness
- None
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Hybrid
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- United States
- Scientific name
- Coturnix japonica