can a quail cross with a chicken? or is she pulling a fast one on me?

[tabitha.h]

Yes they can. Bobwhite quails and chicken.

 

[Ruby Rogue]

View attachment 1075729 Yes they can. Bobwhite quails and chicken.

Can anyone confirm this?

 

[LadiesAndJane]

Can anyone confirm this?

Found this as I was curious. Seems it is possible with artificial insemination. Abstract below from a scientific journal from Japan. Apparently very low viability and only males survive. Interesting.

• Open Access
• Published: 20 May 2016

Embryonic development and inviability phenotype of chicken-Japanese quail F1 hybrids​

• Satoshi Ishishita,
• Keiji Kinoshita,
• Mikiharu Nakano &
• Yoichi Matsuda

Scientific Reports volume 6, Article number: 26369 (2016) Cite this article

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Abstract​

Interspecific hybrid incompatibility, including inviability and sterility, is important in speciation; however, its genetic basis remains largely unknown in vertebrates. Crosses between male chickens and female Japanese quails using artificial insemination can generate intergeneric hybrids; however, the hatching rate is low and hatched hybrids are only sterile males. Hybrid development is arrested frequently during the early embryonic stages and the sex ratio of living embryos is male-biased. However, the development and sex ratio of hybrid embryos have not been comprehensively analyzed. In the present study, we observed delayed embryonic development of chicken-quail hybrids during the early stage, compared with that of chickens and quails. The survival rate of hybrids decreased markedly during the blastoderm-to-pre-circulation stage and then decreased gradually through the subsequent stages. Hybrid females were observed at more than 10 d of incubation; however, the sex ratio of hybrids became male-biased from 10 d of incubation. Severely malformed embryos were observed frequently in hybrids. These results suggest that developmental arrest occurs at various stages in hybrid embryos, including a sexually non-biased arrest during the early stage and a female-biased arrest during the late stage. We discuss the genetic basis for hybrid inviability and its sex bias.

 

[plaidpantsuit]

Silkie mix, that was my wife's first guess.
But whats the other half?
Her cluck is more of a shrilling chirp - then followed by a single bock, which is why I started looking at Guin's and Chicken crossed Pheasants.

This is an old thread, but looks like the other half might be an Irish Flarry-eyed Grey. It's a toppy (crested) gamefowl out of Ireland.

 

[Nemmi123]

Evidence that quail cross chicken is possible and has been done a lot!! Lol

 

[Jory]

It's a pretty common project in biogenesis courses along with quite a few other hybrids. They don't normally just happen. A few, yeah, like 1 in a million lol.

Everyone is always getting worked up about geeps and they have literally never happened outside of a laboratory.

 

[Nemmi123]

A shame to to assume the woman is lieing to her, especially as she willing to give the hen to her for free... just saying. Might be a 1 in a million chance, but that is just one hen . So not impossible and doesn't mean she was lieing. I for one think the hen has a very quail shaped head. And I have kept phoenix, and they didn't have that shaped head at all

 

[Emma_Bruffy]

Funny thing that is unrelated. I have a chick that looks identical to this one, but it's a SLW crossed with barred rock mutt

 

[pchenley]

Can anyone confirm this?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1427951894385128?extid=a&extid=chYV2B&fs=e

 

[Ruby Rogue]

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1427951894385128?extid=a&extid=chYV2B&fs=e

Sad