A&ms have their challenges but I've always enjoyed them. The main thing that turns people off to them is that they are difficult to sex. They were supposed to be a single purpose commercial meat bird so sexing them was unimportant to their creators. They can also be a problem when there is only one or two in a cage full of birds of another color. Occasionally the other birds will seriously injure the A&Ms trying to get that spot off of their head.
When selecting your breeding stock don't use birds with spots below their neck. Those birds are genetically inferior to the birds who only have spots on the tops or sides of their heads. If I understand the science correctly it happens when one or both parents has two copies of the recessive gene instead of a single copy. Whatever the exact cause they won't get as big or mature as quickly.
When selecting your breeding stock don't use birds with spots below their neck. Those birds are genetically inferior to the birds who only have spots on the tops or sides of their heads. If I understand the science correctly it happens when one or both parents has two copies of the recessive gene instead of a single copy. Whatever the exact cause they won't get as big or mature as quickly.
