Our Celadon Quail

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Our Bloodlines

We currently have three homozygous lines of celadon quail: CE, EE, and FA. We are also working on several others!

Our first and original line is the CE line. Eggs from this line are marked with CE and birds will be banded blue. This bloodline dates back to 2021 when we started this journey with quail. The first male in the pen is het EB, het fawn. The other male is homozygous EB, het roux. The hens are either het or homozygous EB, and some are roux or fee. Offspring from this pen may be homozygous EB, het EB, or pharaoh, and also homo-or-hemizygous Roux, homo-or-hemizygous SLB, het fawn, or het fee.

We are currently working on the next stage of our wild type celadon line, the EE line, which will will have and RE-line male (roux celadon) over EVX (wild type celadon) hens. The offspring will be roux hens and wild type het roux males. These are not yet available, but we hope to be able to offer them locally in May of 2026.

The FA line is our fawn celadon project line, and produces birds with the fawn gene, sparkly gene, pharaoh gene, slb gene, and suspected roux gene. They are all 100% celadons, but only the SLB pharaoh (both sexes) and fawn (males) will be available, as we are collecting birds for this project.

We currently have a few (VERY few) RE-line birds available, and will soon have some of the EE line birds available. These will mostly be roux celadon hens.

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The Birds

Wild Egg Coturnix Quail

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Coturnix are the standard quail meat bird. They are relatively calm, large quail that get to butcher weight (10-14oz for jumbos) around 6 weeks of age, giving them a quick turn around time from egg to freezer. Unlike chickens, they can be butchered easily at home with just a pair of good kitchen shears, a bowl of ice water, and a clean bucket. When given appropriate light and feed, the hens lay large, splotched-brown eggs year round, only pausing briefly in the fall to molt into new feathers. They are a GREAT alternative to chickens, as they take up less space, their care is lower-effort than chickens, they eat less and still produce more nutritionally-dense eggs, and they suffer fewer diseases due to being kept off of the ground in hutches instead of free ranging.

For now, we still offer some wild-egg birds, from our sex-linked (SL) breeding pens, and our RF line birds.

The SL-line birds are sexually dimorphic at hatch, meaning I can differentiate between males and females as soon as they are hatched. I normally only sell the hens from these breeding pens, but if you're looking for a bunch of males to grow out, please drop me a line to arrange it, as I can offer groups of males at a discount.

The RF line is a project line of jumbos with the fee, roux, and celadon genes. We are hoping to use the WT celadon line we're developing to split out the fee and fix the celadon gene in the population, to produce clean fee celadons. For now, some of them lay brown and some lay blue. A roux + fee pharaoh bird looks like the pretty boy below!