Bob-Bird

[mochicken]

Do you have pics of your birds you hatched?

 

[jesusbrito]

Do you have pics of your birds you hatched?

No yet(too hard to get them to stay in one place), I just moved them into my main Pen, I'll take some later today or tomorrow and post them, they are 4 weeks now and pretty active, The have most of their feather but still missing some in the front, They are strange looking to say the least.

 

[jesusbrito]

What do you think?

 

[jesusbrito]

2 different birds in this pictures, I'll take more in a couple of weeks to see how much they have changed, like I said they are 4 weeks and some of them are missing their feather still

 

[JJMR794]

NICE COTURNIX YOU POSTED THERE

 

[jbobs]

it just kind of looks like a normal coturnix to me... though the white wing patches are cool.

I have yet to see any photographic evidence that there is such a bird. I have seen bobwhites crossed with californias, gambels, scaled etc but not with coturnix. You should keep a couple of these birds alone by themselves for a couple months so their feathers grow in and see if there is any difference there. I'm wondering why the feathering is so poor on these birds to begin with, though. There is a featherless mutation in coturnix that has been bred in labs and they look kinda like this, but nobody actually breeds for them as far as I know (I wonder why lol)

 

[jesusbrito]

I kept 13 of them and I notice today some of them have a white chest with no speckles like the cotornix, I have had my birds for close to one year all coturnix and one bobwhite male, I have not had any other bird in my pen, they have been with me since they were a day old. yes the white feather in the wings are cool looking.
Like I said before this was all by accident, I just notice the solid white eggs and decide to hatch them, once hatched at 2 to 3 weeks I started noticing the white and also some of them making a call sound.

it just kind of looks like a normal coturnix to me... though the white wing patches are cool.

I have yet to see any photographic evidence that there is such a bird. I have seen bobwhites crossed with californias, gambels, scaled etc but not with coturnix. You should keep a couple of these birds alone by themselves for a couple months so their feathers grow in and see if there is any difference there. I'm wondering why the feathering is so poor on these birds to begin with, though. There is a featherless mutation in coturnix that has been bred in labs and they look kinda like this, but nobody actually breeds for them as far as I know (I wonder why lol)

 

[sarbee42]

Coturnix quail do sometimes lay a white-ish egg. I have some that lay really light eggs (almost white) and others that lay really dark eggs that are almost a chocolate brown color. After about 3 weeks the males might be starting to call. Sounds really shrill and high pitched. The colors on their head would look like a bobwhite still as they probably haven't had time to get rid of their baby "fuzz" yet. I have tonnes of pictures of quail "life stages" from a bunch I hatched out the first weekend in December but can't post any yet!
I am interested in the bob birds though.. I did have a good link on them but of course I can't find it! I will find it and post it. I believe its a coturnix male with a bobwhite female but I could be wrong.. I have three female bobwhites and a whole bunch of male jumbo coturnix and I might see about these "bob birds"..

Any updates on the Bob-Birds, I would like to see pictures
I think I have several of them not a beeding intentional but purely accident, I notice a different quail in my flock of cotournex come to find out it is a bobwhite, a few month later I notice every once in a while I would find a white egg as time went by I notice more white eggs, I decide to keep several(about 25) and hatched them a few weeks ago, within 3 weeks I notice they were different they were making call they look like cotournex but their head looks bobwhite and they have white feathers in their wings. and they are very active and make a lot of noices.

Thanks for any updates, been looking for more info and details but no much out there

 

[JAK Rabbitry]

I believe I have some bob Birds.... I moved recently in August and all my quail ended up rooming together for a while and I have Male Bobwhites in with my coturnix. I've been hatching eggs like a fiend....and noticed these odd birds popping up. They're kind of a sooty darker brown, a couple are getting a little pointed feather on the back of the head (like a blue jay).
there's some perfectly normal coturnix in these photos....tuxedos, a coupls jumbo browns, and a lonely A&M. There would be zero possibility of a purebred bobwhite amongst any of these birds. No bobwhite eggs were ever hatched.

 

[chrishel]

Those are really odd looking, not the ugly monsters that Bob-birds are reported to be though. How old are those? Are they mature and laying? I was just wondering if a Bob-bird would be more like a Cot (5-6 weeks to maturity) or more like a Bobwhite (24 weeks? Sorry, I don't have Bobs, so I'm not really sure).

These are Cot moms and Bob dads? I wonder what the alternate cross would look like. Sort of like a hinny vs. mule in a horse/donkey cross.