Sex-linked Coturnix quail can be identified as male or female at hatch—but only when the breeding cross is set up correctly. Learn how Egyptian and Pharaoh genetics create light daughters and dark sons, why the direction matters, and why the F1 chicks do not breed true.

The pharaoh coturnix quail is the beginning of the beginning. It is the wild type, it is feather sexable and lays the larger eggs. Find out more in this week’s blog.