Anybody clone quail?

[Susan Skylark]

I didn’t mean to do it, and in reality I had nothing to do with it, it was just a little science project…but somehow we cloned Rocky, albeit a pale imitation but otherwise an exact replica. Who may you ask is Rocky? He’s our Italian male, the one who got beat up by girls and needed couples therapy. A quail so sweet and dumb he just sits in your hand and lets you pet him, my son’s pride and joy. While we were chopping the heads off the extra males we got into a little kerfuffle, I wanted to keep the blue male but he’s a bit of a spaz, then my son walks up with this pale imitation just standing on his hand, a six week old pearl male with little one on one time with people! The silly bird is just like his dad, I couldn’t cut his head off, we kept him and ate the blue (gorgeous bird but nuts). Anybody ever clone a quail before? This silly thing is an exact copy of the original save the fee gene. I’d rather breed for color but temperament is taking precedence! Much rather have sweet and dumb than gorgeous and mean, why can’t they be gorgeous and sweet? I have a pretty scarlet tuxedo hen from this batch that I really wanted to keep but she’s a homicidal maniac and doesn’t like anybody. She’s got to go! How do antisocial quail survive when they are such social birds?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

How did you clone him?

 

[007Sean]

How did you clone him?

I don't think she cloned it!

 

[Squawkers]

Cloning is making the exact genetic replica of an animal. I’m pretty sure that requires a big science lab to do so.

 

[Susan Skylark]

I’m just kidding on the cloning! He’s not an exact copy since he has the fee gene, he’s just the same exact personality, it’s a little disconcerting! I just put random eggs in the incubator and he’s one of them. What would the lifespan be on an actual cloned quail? Dolly the sheep had a short life and quail only live a couple years as it is!

 

[Squawkers]

I’m just kidding on the cloning! He’s not an exact copy since he has the fee gene, he’s just the same exact personality, it’s a little disconcerting! I just put random eggs in the incubator and he’s one of them. What would the lifespan be on an actual cloned quail? Dolly the sheep had a short life and quail only live a couple years as it is!

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[CliftonQuail]

I’m just kidding on the cloning! He’s not an exact copy since he has the fee gene, he’s just the same exact personality, it’s a little disconcerting! I just put random eggs in the incubator and he’s one of them. What would the lifespan be on an actual cloned quail? Dolly the sheep had a short life and quail only live a couple years as it is!

From what I've read, Dolly was euthanized at 6.5 years due to lung disease and severe arthritis. A post-mortem showed that she had a form of lung cancer and the scientists who cloned her said they didn't think the cloning had anything to do with her getting cancer. It is apparently a common cancer in sheep, caused by a retrovirus and others in the same flock had died from it. It's also apparently more likely for sheep kept indoors which was where Dolly was kept for security reasons. Her type of sheep has a normal lifespan of 11 to 12 years so she still lived more than half of that.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I’m just kidding on the cloning! He’s not an exact copy since he has the fee gene, he’s just the same exact personality, it’s a little disconcerting! I just put random eggs in the incubator and he’s one of them. What would the lifespan be on an actual cloned quail? Dolly the sheep had a short life and quail only live a couple years as it is!

Cloning doesn't have an effect on personality. People who do pay to have a pet cloned are told that while the clone(s) will look like the original, they aren't guaranteed to behave the same

 

[Susan Skylark]

Boy did I open a philosophical and scientific can of worms just trying to tell a funny story! Yes, there is both nature and nurture involved in personality trait expression as identical twins are not the same people save genetically, but this is also a quail, we’re talking goldfish level personality here, just laugh don’t over analyze! As for Dolly I’m not up on all the ins and outs of her life and death (still waiting for the authorized biography, yes another joke!), had just heard that they thought the cloning process from somatic cells might affect overall lifespan, as in any population there will be outliers and odd balls and significant variation. For all I know it makes no difference at all but my gut feeling would be that cloned individuals would be more prone to cancer, viral disease, autoimmune issues, etc. And since a male quail has a recommended shelf life of one year I thought it would be silly to clone one if it does in fact reduce lifespan…again just goofing around not really interested in ovine retroviruses (I know cats and cattle have leukemia viruses and sheep can get a nasal tumor virus but didn’t know they had another virus that causes cancer, OPP maybe? CLA I think is bacterial, now I’m going to have to look this up)…

 

[Susan Skylark]

Okay, thanks for getting my nerd going in overdrive!! Apparently OPA is a fairly obscure and commercially unimportant disease of sheep, unless contracted by a cloned rock star of the sheep world. Many flocks carry it, most infected individuals don’t ever develop symptoms, they can’t test for it with serology or virus isolation, and it’s traditional name is really hard to spell so I won’t even try. OPP is a lentivirus and not cancerous in nature. CLA is bacterial and affects the lymph nodes, both are way more important commercially than OPA. This is a quail board right? Why am I discussing ovine lung pathology? Sheep also have nasal bots which must be ruled out in suspected cases of infectious nasal tumor…at least you’ll be ready for boards, I’m done now, I hope!