Poultry
Tuxedo
B tier
Tuxedo quail are a colour pattern of coturnix with dark body and white breast markings—popular with keepers and sometimes sold as a named meat bird. Culinary quality matches good farmed japonica: tender, mild-game, best cooked hot and fast. Presentation whole can show skin colour differences after plucking less than live plumage suggests; buy for husbandry quality. Excellent for plated starters where portion control is precise.
Also known as: Tuxedo, Tuxedo coturnix
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History
Colour breeders stabilised tuxedo patterns in coturnix flocks.
Hatcheries listed tuxedo as a popular ornamental-utility colour.
Some meat growers offered tuxedo birds alongside Pharaoh lines.
Tuxedo remained a colour variety with standard coturnix eating quality.