button quail and corturnix quail hybrid?

[quailss]

will button quails and coturnix quails be able to crossbreed? If so, would it be a male cortunix with a female button or would it be a male button and female coturnix? and will their offspring be infertile?

 

[jbobs]

I tried this once, both ways - I had a button roo that had a coturnix girlfriend and he used to mount her several times a day, so I put in a bunch of her eggs and they were all infertile. Then for a laugh I tried AI from a male coturnix toa female button and they were also infertile. That was just one experiment though. They are from the same genus so it would be more likely for it to be possible than those silly bob-birds.

 

[katagra]

I've got a few really small japanese in with my buttons, had some eggs laid, hoping the button roos fertilized them.
I don't have my hopes up. I read about an experiment to artificially cross turkey and chicken and only like 60 eggs
out of 3000 or so were fertile and I think less than 20 hatched, and they were all sterile. But anything can happen. =)