Color variety

Autumn Amber

Warm amber-gold with deep auburn accents across the back, and the one variety here you can sex by looking at it.

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An Autumn Amber jumbo Coturnix quail in side profile, showing warm gold plumage with deep auburn accents

Our own bird, photographed at home this summer.

What the bird looks like

Warm amber-gold with deep auburn running across the back and shoulders, and a plain buff chest with very little speckling. The gold reads warmer standing in daylight than it does on a screen, so do come and look at one at the fair.

The eggs

Cream shells with brown speckling. Not blue.

This is the friendliest variety here for a first-time keeper. Autumn Ambers can be sexed on feather color once they are grown, which our Range birds cannot. If you want to know what you have without learning to vent-sex a quail, start here. The trade-off is that you are buying color, not blue eggs.

How they are fed

Every quail here has eaten 100% certified organic feed for its entire life. Our quail hatch here and go straight onto a certified organic chick starter, then onto an organic grower ration once they are grown. Not one of them has ever eaten conventional feed. It costs us noticeably more and we think it shows, in the birds and in the eggs.

What you can buy

ItemPrice
Hatching eggs, Autumn Amber Kept separate and sold as this variety. Collected fresh, never washed. $18 / dz
$27 / 18 eggs
Day-old chicks, straight run Go home at one to three days old. We hatch to order, not to stock, so reserve ahead. $6 ea
Chicks, one to three weeks Grown on by us through the fragile stage, eating and drinking on their own. $8 ea

Chicks are sold straight run. We cannot promise a particular bird or a particular marking from a particular hatch, and we will not pretend otherwise. Local pickup only, at the Boulder County Fairgrounds or at Natural Grocers on North Main Street in Longmont.

Order Autumn Amber

Autumn Amber is a breeder line name, not a published gene. It describes a consistent, recognizable bird, but different breeders do not always mean exactly the same thing by it, and we have not found peer-reviewed work behind the name. The auto-sexing above is what we see in our own pens, stated as our observation.

See how we separate published genetics from breeder naming →

The other varieties

Four varieties in the pens. Range Celadon is the blue-egg line and the only one with pages for individual birds.

Range Celadon Egyptian Fee German Pansy