How do you sex Chinese Painted Quails?

Question

I have various colours of chinese painted quails and I want to seperate the males from the females. How can I tell the diffference by their colouration? It would be too expensive to get twenty birds DNA tested.

Answer 1

Chinese painted quail or button quail are easily distinguished by the throat markings, on the males is a throat shield of black and white stripes. This is true except for pure white birds where you have to watch to see when the males crow.

Answer 2

Chinese Button Quail

Answer 3

Normally easy to sex but depends upon the mutation. In normal CPQ the cock bird has a white mask and red rump, while the hen lacks the red rump and has a brown mask, if any. However mutations now exist where the cock bird lacks a mask so these can only be sexed by observing behaviour and the red rump if that is shown in the mutation. Cock birds in breeding condition will pick up livefoods (e.g. mealworms) and other food items and hold them in his beak while calling to the hen. Hens can do this, but only when she has chicks. Mutations such as whites can only be sexed by DNA samples and observing behaviour.

Answer 4

By having more than one male you will be able to grantee on fertile eggs, two or more males will call and display with the stronger one getting the most hens to mate

Answer 5

I thnk the only way is to get them tested... Thereis a way to get a breast feather & send it into a lab yourself, which is cheaper than taking them to a vet. Some birds you can't sex by looking at them...

Answer 6

This site tells you all.
http://www.gbwf.org/quail/buttonquail.html
Like most species, the male is more colorful, while the female is mottled and subdued in color.

Answer 7

You feel for the sex organ. IT is a little bump. The males have then.

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