The Fabulous Fee!

When we are talking about quail colors, Fee is my absolute favorite. I love everything to be organized, not saying that I am, but I love it. Fee is simply a diluter that removes color and makes lines on the quail more black and white. In heterozygous form, meaning one copy, it will have some brown tones still on it, but in homozygous form, its crisp and clear with black, white and shades of grey.

It can be put over any color and pattern. If it is over pharaoh or wild type, it is Falb Fee. If it is over Fawn, it is Pearl Fee. IF over EB (extended brown) then it is Grau Fee. It does not change the pattern, so if the base is feather sexable, then the fee version will be feather sexable. Cannot get any cooler than that!

So over the summer I went a little crazy and put hens of all kinds of colors in with a Fee rooster and I have created a whole bunch of fun birds! Then I remembered I like them all orderly and organized them again LOL

So now we have Egyptian Fee, Pearl Fee, Grau fee, Falb fee. Then I threw in some sparkly, because what girl doesn’t need a little sprakly? And now have some sparkly fee….

Some of you will remember the Barred Rock Quail from last fall. I went back to the drawing board and built them back up! They will be part of the Portfolio!

Even though this may sound like a sales pitch, I want it to be more a fun exercise to just mix and match your quail and see what you get! Have some fun with it and make it yours. Bird’s do not care what color they are so do what makes you happy. Same with chickens, if no one ever mixed, we wouldn’t have Easter Eggers and look how popular they are! Nature can be fun if we sit back and enjoy it. Isn’t that why we got the birds in the first place?

As a result of all this, I had to create a new collection called the Bryant’s Roost Fabulous Fee.