All about the Black Coturnix

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Жыл бұрын

Introducing the Black Coturnix - Michael Rose of Southwest Gamebirds and Rebecca Lynch of Thieving Otter Farm are currently working on the black coturnix lines to perfect the color, temperament and size. In this video I talk about the origins of the black coturnix and what is being done to perfect the new color variation and make them available to the public.
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@mysongzz1521 Жыл бұрын

Omgoodness your birds are beautiful 😍

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

Thank you, they are from Thieving Otter Farm.

@MO22682 Жыл бұрын

My 2nd black baby just hatched today, hopefully more will hatch in the next day or so. My 1st one was in my last hatch. These blacks were hatched from my multiple color breeding pen. A great breeding experiment 😃

@LaSierraAcresQuailFarm Жыл бұрын

very cool color variety... gonna order a batch soon to add them to my speciality inventory...looking foward to these birds..

@left-handedstan4506 Жыл бұрын

I hatched a batch of "Hatchery's Choice" from SWGB and several are a very pretty black color. They're flippin' gorgeous.

@Lorittax3 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely gorgeous. I will definitely be reaching out to them. I would love to work on perfecting a line of black coturnix. I believe they would also be a hit with my customers even before they are perfected. Thank you so much for the information!

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching

@ApiaryManager Жыл бұрын

I bought my black coturnix from Kai Peppler. The first batch spent over a week in the mail so I wasn't happy with the hatch rate (22%). The second batch were sent by overnight delivery and the hatch rate was better but still only about 50%. There were a few with white patches and others with brown under tones (1 sparkly) so there is some work to do to get pure blacks. The pink toe problem is frustrating. They do seem to have 'behavioural issues' too. One of my nicest looking blacks is feather-pecker I haven't had feet problems with the blacks but a couple of the calico have twisted toes. They are the most friendly / inquisitive though so I'll keep them as pets.

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

Good luck in your breeding trials.

@ApiaryManager Жыл бұрын

@@CoturnixCorner I wish you the same.

@dawns.2492 Жыл бұрын

Really good video and very interesting Terry, thank you!

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

thanks for watching 😁

@Wulfgeist Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Terry. Of the ones I won, I got one of the blacks to hatch and it's pretty good looking thus far. Beak and toes are black, it has the "eyebrows" but it's still under a week old and hasn't started feathering yet. I'm anxious to see it grow. One of the others though, I can't even tell you what type it could be since I don't know the colors, has mottled black toes and it wasn't in the marked eggs.

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

Congrats

@violetm9045 7 ай бұрын

I recently hatched a completly black quail from a mixed pen. quite a surprise

@brendadiederich7374 Жыл бұрын

Very Cool! THank you for this information. I had one Tibetan from a shipment of 44 mixed eggs--27 hatched. I believe the Tibetan bred many times with some fees that I had, but I have 5 gray and black quail with dark legs--someone told me they were grau-fees. The info given here was helpful and now I understand better what is going on with these colors! As mine are 3 weeks old, I am looking forward to the how the gray/black patterns change. 2 of them are much darker than the others. And yes, a couple do have lighter toes!

@cathalmire 7 ай бұрын

i love the black line i did get one that is near adult not sure if i would be able to breed and get the same tho but ya never know

@shawnnichol4444 Жыл бұрын

So cute We have some healthier blacks this time around but they are still smaller But doing well

@delchuchu Жыл бұрын

As soon as I get to florida I will get started with black quail and whites, and fee, and calico, and wild type ... and im broke

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

🤣

@similis1134 8 ай бұрын

White markings on the face remind me of black rosecomb bantam chicken. They're marked on hatch, but lose it when growing true feathers.

@htowngizmo9799 Жыл бұрын

I ordered some quail eggs this year from southwest game birds and I had a zero percent hatch rate. This was my first time hatching eggs so I thought I had done something wrong. I decided to try again so I bought a hen and rooster from a local place and incubated seven eggs the hen laid. I had a hundred percent hatch rate. I was discouraged after the first failed hatch, but after I had the hundred percent I seen how easy it is to hatch eggs.

@zen8791 9 ай бұрын

But did you actually contact them about it

@MacJank7 2 ай бұрын

So are you trying to say their eggs were bad? It was your first time so you think you did everything right? This kind of thing is what makes business owners really aggravated and not want to sell to just anyone.

@MacJank7 2 ай бұрын

@@zen8791I bet not

@htowngizmo9799 2 ай бұрын

@@MacJank7 I would say their eggs were bad. I bought some quail from a local feed store and incubated the 7 eggs they laid. I had 100% hatch rate and this was my 2nd incubation. I did everything the same as the first time.

@MacJank7 2 ай бұрын

@@htowngizmo9799 shipped eggs vs picked up from feed store says it all. Anyone who buys hatching eggs will tell you shipped eggs can get beat up during shipping and cause this. All it takes is the package being dropped hard once to break the air sacs free inside the eggs. Just saying!

@kathymcleod1460 Жыл бұрын

I know it isn't what you are breeding for but I thought the black tux with the white wing tips was the prettiest bird of them all.

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

Personal preference 😀

@ratscats9456 Жыл бұрын

I agree. Those white wing tips are gorgeous.

@nataliebutler Жыл бұрын

@@CoturnixCorner Yeah, that's a pretty bird. Prehaps let someone else breed it rather than cull it?

@ibgoliath8400 22 күн бұрын

I got 30 day old chicks and one of them is a beautiful black. Not sure if that is something of use

@Landon_wallace0909 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible to buy your culls ?

@chuolee Жыл бұрын

do you sell any fertile hatching eggs in these?

@SwedishQuail Жыл бұрын

There was a lot of issues with their feet when we got them to Sweden, maybe 30-40% had issues when hatched.

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

I haven't noticed any feet issues other than the odd pink toe.

@SwedishQuail Жыл бұрын

@@CoturnixCorner we saw a lot of curly toes and splayed legs, if we hatched 20 black and 20 of other colors there was a lot of leg issues just with the black ones, there have been a lot of talks about that in Sweden, maybe it was due to inbreed since there was one first that got them and started to sell eggs all around until the issues got more attention, there was similar issues with celadons.

@thievingotterfarm Жыл бұрын

I had a lot of issues with curled toes when I started my lines. It has taken hard culling and careful selection to weed out the defects.

@wildedibles819 Жыл бұрын

In Canada we have small blacks failure to thrive blending the food helped the little ones gain weight better some littles got to the same size by maturity this time around blending the food really helped I didn't see feet problems in any of the black birds and I started out with lots I did have some splayed leg and toe curled on my pharaoh chicks but not the black ones Just info from Canada Lots of pink toes here The one chick has one pink toe on each side rest is black but I had mostly pink toes

@thievingotterfarm Жыл бұрын

I had failure to thrive issues in my original birds, but it’s something I was able to breed out with careful selection and heavy culling.

@jerryirle1 Жыл бұрын

Are they jumbo quail/.

@thewardepartment-thebunker7416 Жыл бұрын

VERY FRUSTRATED I'm looking for STANDARD English white quail eggs NOT JUMBO. I can't find ANY. Please advise and thanks.

@PatientMoney Жыл бұрын

Curious to know why you prefer srandard?

@QuailTale Жыл бұрын

Oh no dont put the idea of getting black quails in my head 😂😂

@huntingwithpride Жыл бұрын

Best looking one hands down ill fight yah. If they can lock it down And make a jumbo outta it I'd never spend money faster ever 😂😂

@chrisdarry-roseelrod4481 Жыл бұрын

If you're willing to ship live birds, I'll take the ones you don't want.

@CoturnixCorner Жыл бұрын

Sorry, I don't ship live birds.

@chrisdarry-roseelrod4481 Жыл бұрын

@@CoturnixCorner It was worth a shot. Good luck with program.

@aland3485 Жыл бұрын

🄿🅁🄾🄼🄾🅂🄼 😅

@QuailTale Жыл бұрын

Because of climate change people are having bad results all around the world.. I'm from Belgium and heard and experienced those bad results also..

@michaelburton3322 6 ай бұрын

This guy sucks. I definitely wouldn't trust him considering his poor quality quail facility.

@bluemoongypsies 5 ай бұрын

You have seen his entire facility??

@bluepsiongamer4909 3 ай бұрын

What do you mean?