Pharaoh/Pharaoh Sparkly Coturnix Quail Hatching Eggs

Pharaoh is the "wild type" or standard brownish, camouflaged color pattern, often used as a baseline for breeding and considered "feather sexable" by approximately 3 weeks old, with Males having a lack of chest speckles, displaying a plainer, rust-colored chest and Females display speckles or mottled feathers on their chest.

Sparkly is an incomplete dominant gene that acts as a pattern modifier, meaning the gene is visible when only a single copy is present. Pharaoh quail with heterozygous sparkly gene will exhibit barring across the entire chest of both male and female birds. With Homozygous sparkly, the entire birds plumage becomes modified and thus creating a more distinct phenotype, with heavily altered, darker pattern on both the front and back. 

The Roosters in this covey have one copy of the sparkly gene and the hens are all Pharaoh, thus producing a mix of Pharaoh and Pharaoh with heterozygous sparkly. This group may contain resessive mutations not visibly seen.