I double mate - I've 2 cock breeding pens and one pullet breeding pens in Salmon - in both LF and bantam - the females from the cock pens hoften have splotches in their beards - these girls are either kept for breeding cock birds sold as layers or go into my laying flock - this answers DBReggs...
If you PM me - I know the BEST breeder of them he lives in Cambridgeshire (sp) he has won at the national and federation often and has about 250 birds - he is also very reasonable with his prices - you probably won't find better :-)17
Here are the pikkis of the boy and one of the girl - he looks quite goldish, but that is the flash in the garage (which is otherwise known as quarantine quarters) :-)07 but he is in fact a red quail (non standard colour)