Galadriel

Pure Range: no tuxedo, no Fee. This is the control bird. Every other bird on this page is this bird plus one or two changes, so she is the one to look at first.

Not at the fair this yearShe picked up an injury to the back of her head shortly before the show, so she is staying home to heal rather than traveling and being handled. She is not in the poultry sale. The photographs here were taken before the injury. Her eggs and her chicks are still available to order.

Reference birdNo tuxedo, no Fee: Range and nothing else. If you want to understand what the other eight birds are doing, start here and add one trait at a time.

Variety	Range (jumbo line)
Pen ID	Range 9
Sex	Female (vent-checked, not feather-sexed)
Tuxedo	No
Fee	No
Weight	221 g (7.8 oz)
Temperament	Handled daily since hatch; calm in the hand
Raised by	Colin, 4-H poultry project, Lyons, Colorado

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How Galadriel weighs up

221 g · 7.8 oz

Weighed 3 Aug 2026

This bird	221 g
Published mean, large-sized strain, adult female	225.8 g
Published mean, normal-sized strain, adult female	145.0 g

That puts her essentially level with the published mean for a large-sized strain, and well clear of a normal-sized one. One honest caveat: that study weighed its birds at 16 weeks, and strain, age, feed and season all move the number. Treat this as a real measurement of one bird, not a guarantee about her offspring.

Haqani MI, Kawamura K, Takenouchi A, Kabir MH, Nakamura Y, Ishikawa A, Tsudzuki M. A growth performance and nonlinear growth curve functions of large- and normal-sized Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica). The Journal of Poultry Science 2021;58(2):88–96. Read the source

What Galadriel would bring to a breeding pen

Galadriel weighed 221 g on 3 Aug 2026, which is level with the published mean for an adult female of a large-sized strain. That is a measurement of one bird on one day, not a promise about her offspring.

She carries no tuxedo and no Fee: Range and nothing else. That makes her the useful bird to breed against: pair her with a marked bird and the difference in the chicks tells you what the marked parent was really carrying.

Handled almost every day since hatch by Colin and his sisters, so she sits calmly in the hand and does not flare or scramble when picked up. Temperament is worth asking about and worth watching, but it is a product of how a bird is raised as much as of its breeding, so treat it as a fact about this bird rather than a promise about its chicks.

Galadriel was sexed by vent examination, not by plumage. Range is built on extended brown, which overwrites the wild-type breast pattern, so Range birds, tuxedo or not, cannot be feather-sexed. White on the chest here means tuxedo and nothing else.

She is not in the poultry sale this year. Her hatching eggs and chicks are available to order.

What we have not measured: we do not keep individual laying records, fertility rates or hatch rates on these birds. If we quoted you a number for any of those, we would be guessing, so we don't. Ask us at the pen and we will tell you exactly what we have seen and what we haven't.