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This thread is from 2015. I think you have a quail that's homozygous sparkly and heterozygous fee.

Big Gal/Boy looks like a boy to me, too, based on its clear/slightly rusty chest and the fact it picks on the males. Big size, though, makes me lean towards female. Snowy is an English white, I believe. Gray 1 and Big Gal/Boy might be silver, but more likely to be fee + a dilute gene. Gray 2 is...

What do you mean by shaking? Like - is she visibly trembling, does it come and go, is it worse at certain times? It's possible she might have been startled or attacked and flushed, bonking her head. The swollen eye makes me feel this is more likely an injury vs a vascular event. Either way...

Yes. Fee only removes the brown pigment from the bird - if you have a feather sexable variety, males will still have a clear breast (though the rusty color may be gone) while females should have a spotted breast.

It might just take a bit of time. Baby chicks take a while to get their legs under them (literally in this case). How are they today?

Probably? But frankly, I don't know. It would depend on how many chickens are being released every time - if you're dropping in 2000 chickens, it's going to cause a whole event in the environment. If you're dropping in 10, maybe not, but you might still change the way predators interact with...

And a funny post in which I indulge my anthropomorphization of my birds... I do love how silly my favorites are - Pudding reminds me of a proper Victorian schoolmarm, very severe and haughty. No one messes with her. Mousse is a softer lady, more timid and sweet compared to Pudding - though they...

Yep. I think it's simply that you can breed for flightiness and such, which helps them survive predators more, but it'll take...well, you'd probably need an established population in a temperate area and then generations upon generations upon generations in which you gradually push them north to...

Eh, I can respect the design - iirc, the Husband read somewhere that it's sheet metal that's pressed into shape, which is pretty great for manufacturing reasons. I'm always interested in reduce/recycle/reuse, and in that way it's better than the fiberglass molded outside of most cars. Of course...

Eh...I don't think they do. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_chicken#Locations_famous_for_feral_chickens Feral chicken populations appear to be limited to tropical/semi-tropical areas, or at least areas that maintain a constant temperate climate. The winter season would probably doom any...

I wish the juveniles would find their feet already. Then I could make real decisions as to whom to keep vs whom to get rid of - the roos would finally be obvious with their crowing and mating, the hens would start showing their true personalities... We're thinking to keep some chunky hens who...

Flan has decided to become broody again, seemingly at random. Sigh. Dang hen. It's so hot right now that we could honestly just incubate the eggs outside and probably get a good hatch if it wasn't for the night-time drop in temp. She's the one who gets to come inside and greet the new chicks...

I think it's technically possible, but it would depend a lot on...well, a lot. Chickens were domesticated from junglefowl, after all, and some areas do support populations of feral chickens - though I've only ever seen it in urban areas. Given your thought experiment...I think it would depend...

It doesn't look worse to me, but I'm still very wary of those exposed bones - they're effectively an open 'wound' as there's no way for the bone to seal itself off. It could be one of two things - it could be normal changes with healing, as there's often redness, swelling, and pain with a wound...

3 is a pretty good age for a quail. I'll go ahead and ask the usual questions, it'll help us figure out what's going on: What's their enclosure like? What are you feeding them? Any recent changes? What does her poop look like? Has she been laying? Any respiratory issues, like weird sounds or...

My husband looked into it (though I believe the numbers were for bobwhites) and it was something like a thousand quail to establish a breeding population in 1 acre of land. I think quail are simply too small - they're easy prey for a lot of animals that live well in urban/suburban/semi-rural...

I get that, haha! Birds with the fee gene, especially homozygous fee, can look very gray - but I find that true silver birds have little patterning and white wings/wing tips.

Italian X Italian isn't an issue, you just get Manchurian/Italian/Pharoah from that mix. There's a fatal yellow gene that can look similar to Italian, however. Silver X Silver is an issue, though. Andalusian quail also have issues. https://ourpipsnchicks.wixsite.com/poultry/quailgenetics

No problem! I think most peoples' brains seize up when the dreaded C word is mentioned, so it's always good to get the information again. Cancer can be very complicated - it's not a single disease, but a whole family of different diseases - and unfortunately it can present very differently in...

Theoretically your reasoning is sound and I know Roux can be used to make sex-link quail.