Aussie Finch Forum

Hi,
Could someone please tell me the expected results from crossing the following 2 King quail-

Silver male with a Cinnamon female.

Is either colour sex linked or recessive ?

Thanks

Both are recessive colours. The problem with Aussie king quails in australia is that we have indiscriminately been crossing cinnamon and fawn for so long that most birds are now a mix of both. A very small group of people care enought to try to extract the different shades, as the Americans have been doing for some years. Hence them having so many colour types and us so few. (ask mr google) I currently have visually silver cocks with dilute normal and a particular shade of fawn. I also have other shades of fawn, both male and female together. While my mother has shades of cinnamon red together. We are purely at the early stages of working out what we can isolate and work out. - To answer your question, depends on if they are pure. But most likely some of each split for the opposite.
LML

Thanks for that FB.

I will update when they hatch.

I have been breeding a Silver cock with a Cinnamon hen for a few years now. They always produce Silver cock offspring and normal hen offspring. I'm guessing the babies are all split to Cinnamon, and mum must be split to Silver also (?).

Mum would have to be split to silver. But normal chicks from that combination?? Are you sure mum is not a darker form of cinnamon/fawn or the young are not just a lighter form of normal (like my dilute hen)? Because normals are dominant. And cinnamon/fawn comes in so many more shades than most people realise. Can you do pics of the young, preferably with the parents? But everything different starts somewhere.
LML

The chicks have hatched, with the results being-

5 Cinnamon and 3 silver.