Bob-Bird

[drowe005]

What is the bob bird, all I find in a google search is the politician. I am assuming that you are not talking about bobwhites?

 

[fancyfowl4ever]

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.

those are just dark range cortunix(basically a tuxedo without the white). they are not bob birds. and those plucked looking ones from the earlier post are cortunix as well, just very poorly feathered ones(lower ranked, pecked on etc). The white in the wings occurs with some wild type birds and in most cases grows out with the adult moult. Bob birds I have seen always had a very bobwhite like head both in shape and colour.

Drowe005 a bob bird is a cross between a cortunix and a bobwhite.

 

[JAK Rabbitry]

bah, I didn't get a notification that anyone had responded. Good thingI checked back.
These woudl all be the result of female coturnix and a male bobwhite.

I have this whole batch still together, that is to say the supposed bob birds in with my obvious coturnix, and I just got my first egg yesterday. No telling who laid it, but it looks like any other coturnix egg i've gotten, nothing unusual about it.

I came on here originally from browing the web looking for more info on bob birds to find answers to such questions....if it matters what the parents are, if that can effect maturity, size, etc. When I can expect them to start laying and a big question everyone seems to be asking is if they're fertile. I've heard they're sterile....i've also heard they're not. And I've additionally heard that they can be, but fertility is very bad.

I'd love to hang onto them and do my own personal study. But if someone wants them between now and then i'll probably just be rid of them, since i'm constantly pumping out birds.

 

[bluejeans]

bob white quail are a whole lot cheaper to raise from eggs ..i got my eggs and a inexspencive bator from savanah georgia when i was raising them ,
http://www.gqfmfg.com/store/front.asp

now there is e bay and many more places to get them and many different strains of them to buy..

 

[bluejeans]

bob white quail are a whole lot cheaper to raise from eggs ..i got my eggs and a inexspencive bator from savanah georgia when i was raising them ,
http://www.gqfmfg.com/store/front.asp

now there is e bay and many more places to get them and many different strains of them to buy..

i wasnt familar with the bob mule bird untill i read every thing you wrote .. very intresting thanks..

 

[drowe005]

Is there a reason or benefit of the bob bird? Or is it just done for fun per say?