Our Celadon Quail
Our Bloodlines
We currently have two homozygous lines of celadon quail: CE, and RE.
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 RE line, which will will have an ER-line male (SLB pharaoh ce, het roux) back over roux pharaoh ce hens. The offspring will be SLB pharaoh ce het roux males, roux pharaoh ce males, SLB pharaoh ce hens, and roux pharaoh ce hens. These are not yet available, but we hope to be able to offer them locally by the spring of 2026.
We (for now) have a few hens left from the EVX and CEX lines, but these are limited to what we hatched before November 2025. There are less than 2 dozen left as of writing this on 12/5/25.
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 RE line, which will will have an ER-line male (SLB pharaoh ce, het roux) back over roux pharaoh ce hens. The offspring will be SLB pharaoh ce het roux males, roux pharaoh ce males, SLB pharaoh ce hens, and roux pharaoh ce hens. These are not yet available, but we hope to be able to offer them locally by the spring of 2026.
We (for now) have a few hens left from the EVX and CEX lines, but these are limited to what we hatched before November 2025. There are less than 2 dozen left as of writing this on 12/5/25.
How do sales work?
BIRDS
We do sell live birds locally from our farm, and at MBGBA bird swaps. These birds are ones hatched and raised indoors for the first two weeks, and grown out in the barn afterward. Most of them will be birds we know we don't need, as they are simply the wrong color for our project. We are transparent about when we sell retiring breeders, so you know when you are getting older or younger birds.
The CE line birds will only be available straight run through our mailing list, or as retiring birds through our mailing list. Celadon hens will be $15, males will be $10. Since the CE line mostly still has the EB gene, we cannot feather-sex them young, and we rarely grow them out to crowing/laying age. These birds will be banded in BLUE. Cali-line celadons may also have an orange band.
The RE line birds will only be available through the mailing list for a brief period, as they are part of the ongoing project. ER hens will be $15, roosters will be $10. These birds will be banded in GREEN.
EGGS
When we select eggs from our lines for sale, you are getting the best we can select, with nothing taken out or reserved for our own incubators. Hatching eggs from the celadons are selected carefully for the same quality that we select for when putting eggs in our own incubators, and due to the small number being laid, you are getting the exact same eggs we would have set. Size, shape, color, speckling, shell strength... all factors we pay attention to when selecting eggs for you to hatch. We're also always hatching here, and monitoring our fertility and hatch rates. Celadons tend to have a little lower fertility and hatch rate in general than normal eggers (75%+ compared to 80-90%), but if it drops for any reason (molting, moving cages, changing breeding groups, etc), we pause sales and wait until we see it recover in our own hatches. We are hoping to see an improvement in fertility and hatch rates through our outcrossing project, as many celadon lines have been severely inbred for years due to the difficulty in re-acquiring a 100% line after outcrossing.
We do sell live birds locally from our farm, and at MBGBA bird swaps. These birds are ones hatched and raised indoors for the first two weeks, and grown out in the barn afterward. Most of them will be birds we know we don't need, as they are simply the wrong color for our project. We are transparent about when we sell retiring breeders, so you know when you are getting older or younger birds.
The CE line birds will only be available straight run through our mailing list, or as retiring birds through our mailing list. Celadon hens will be $15, males will be $10. Since the CE line mostly still has the EB gene, we cannot feather-sex them young, and we rarely grow them out to crowing/laying age. These birds will be banded in BLUE. Cali-line celadons may also have an orange band.
The RE line birds will only be available through the mailing list for a brief period, as they are part of the ongoing project. ER hens will be $15, roosters will be $10. These birds will be banded in GREEN.
EGGS
When we select eggs from our lines for sale, you are getting the best we can select, with nothing taken out or reserved for our own incubators. Hatching eggs from the celadons are selected carefully for the same quality that we select for when putting eggs in our own incubators, and due to the small number being laid, you are getting the exact same eggs we would have set. Size, shape, color, speckling, shell strength... all factors we pay attention to when selecting eggs for you to hatch. We're also always hatching here, and monitoring our fertility and hatch rates. Celadons tend to have a little lower fertility and hatch rate in general than normal eggers (75%+ compared to 80-90%), but if it drops for any reason (molting, moving cages, changing breeding groups, etc), we pause sales and wait until we see it recover in our own hatches. We are hoping to see an improvement in fertility and hatch rates through our outcrossing project, as many celadon lines have been severely inbred for years due to the difficulty in re-acquiring a 100% line after outcrossing.
