Order Celadon quail & Coturnix Quail - What to Expect
Discover how to order celadon quail and coturnix quail from a reputable breeder. Learn what to expect from your delivery and gain insights into my breeding practices for healthy quail.
Sarah Barratt
2/2/20263 min read
Fertile Coturnix and Celadon Quail Hatching Eggs Available
Standard Brown Egg or Blue Egg Laying Coturnix Quail
Looking for fertile Standard, Jumbo or Celadon quail hatching eggs in the UK? At Parkside Poultry, we supply freshly collected quail eggs from carefully managed breeding stock, ideal for hobby keepers, backyard breeders, and smallholders.
Celadon quail are highly sought after for their beautiful naturally blue, sometimes speckled eggs, excellent laying ability, and suitability for small garden setups.
Standard Coturnix quail, often called Japanese quail, are just as productive and easy to keep.
Jumbo Quail are, as the name suggests, bigger, heavier quail. Often far more docile and make fabulous pets because of this. Their eggs are larger, 14g to 19g as standard, and sometimes exceeding 20g! Compared to the more common standard sized Coturnix quail whose eggs are between 10g and 13g.
What You Will Receive
Your chosen quantity of fertile quail hatching eggs
Freshly collected each day and stored at the correct temperature for a maximum of three days before being sold. Any eggs older than this are incubated by myself to maintain stock and to constantly check fertility.
Secure protective packaging for postal transport
24-hour dispatch where available
Our eggs are suitable for both first-time quail hatchers and experienced breeders looking to expand their existing flock or introduce jumbo or blue egg genetics into their flock.
Why Choose Parkside Poultry? As the author of the bestselling book, Practical Quail Keeping (https://amzn.eu/d/01o1rS8X), you can be assured that you are buying from an experienced, devoted breeder who has kept quail for over 20 years. Experience and knowledge is key when dealing with quail and their little peculiarities.
At Parkside Poultry, our birds are raised with a focus on welfare, nutrition, and breeding quality. Maintaining the correct male-to-female ratio helps support strong fertility rates and healthy chicks.
Small-scale UK breeder
Carefully selected breeding birds
Clean, low-stress rearing environment
Ongoing customer support and hatching advice
About Celadon Quail
Celadon quail are a special strain of Japanese coturnix quail carrying a recessive gene responsible for producing blue or blue-green eggs.
Key Characteristics
Friendly and easy to manage
Ideal for beginners and family gardens
Early maturity — hens may lay from 6–8 weeks
Productive layers (often 250–300 eggs per year)
Compact birds perfect for backyard keeping
The only way to tell if a quail will lay blue eggs is if she lays blue eggs.... they are visibly indistinguishable from a standard Coturnix. However if she does produce a blue egg, she is definitely a Celadon hen. Males on the other hand can only be proven to carry the blue gene if you test hatch and grow on the offspring, waiting for the resulting eggs to be laid. The alternative is to buy a true Celadon male from a breeder.
Understanding the Celadon Gene
The Celadon egg colour is inherited through a recessive genetic trait. Both parent birds must carry the gene for offspring to reliably produce blue eggs. Because of normal genetic variation, not every chick hatched will become a blue egg layer.
This rarity makes Celadon quail increasingly popular among UK poultry keepers seeking unusual egg colours. The eggs can be completely smooth and beautifully blue or be speckled with little dark raised dots, very different to the brown patches of the standard coturnix eggs.
Hatching Egg Disclaimer
While fertility within our flock is monitored closely, hatch rates cannot be guaranteed due to variables outside our control, including postal handling and incubation conditions.
Please ensure suitable incubation equipment is prepared prior to purchase.
Due to the nature of hatching eggs I am afraid that all sales are final and refunds of despatched items are not possible.
Buy Celadon Quail Hatching Eggs Online for UK Only Delivery
Whether you are starting quail keeping, breeding for colourful egg production, or building a sustainable backyard flock, Parkside Poultry Celadon quail hatching eggs provide a reliable and exciting place to begin.
Please email me if you have any more questions.
