Chicken/quail hybrid???

[paneubert]

Yeah, I don't understand how they mate though..

Seems to mostly be artificial insemination. Probably mostly due to the size differences. Although if they found the mother had to be a quail, then I suppose it is "easier" since the chicken dad just has to be small enough to not crush the lady during breeding.

 

[Mia Sebastian]

I believe those are bantam chicks.

 

[Mia Sebastian]

Personally I would avoid it. The reason being is that the seller is saying that the breeding happens by natural process, the only proven coturnix-chicken hybirds I have seen have been inseminated. All he has to do is not guarantee the hatch due to shipping concerns and send you any old coturnix egg since he supposedly has an easter egger bantam roo covering a coturnix hen. Even if he is getting hybrids by natural breeding there is no way the process is safe/humane for the quail, and that is leaving out the fact that chickens carry diseases that are often fatal to quail.

Here is some reading on the insemination subject. The fertility rate of inseminated eggs was low. The hatch rate was even lower. And this guy is selling "hybrids" that supposedly happen through natural cover? I'm skeptical to say the least.

can a red Tennessee and a Mexican speckle bob quail breed?

 

[Crestcrazy2]

can a red Tennessee and a Mexican speckle bob quail breed?

Well there both quail and you can look up " bobbirds" and their real so yeah

 

[Crestcrazy2]

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[RoostersAreAwesome]

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Those aren’t quail x chicken hybrids. They’re just bantam chickens. My old English game bantams look the same at that age.

 

[Crestcrazy2]

Well there both quail and you can look up " bobbirds" and their real so yeah

I just realized that these are both bobs so absolutely they can ! But the reds are too aggressive to be with other quail so you probably shouldn't.

 

[Crestcrazy2]

Those aren’t quail x chicken hybrids. They’re just bantam chickens. My old English game bantams look the same at that age.

K thanks

 

[Angela66]

My hen just showed up with a chick 14 weeks after our roosters were gone. Our options of father are turkey tom, quail cock, or a pheasant rooster... by the looks of the chick this far (and the fact that the tom is entirely unlikely) i'm thinking quail? It would be a wild quail or pheasant, either way, and entirely not on purpose. Sometimes nature does what it wants.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

My hen just showed up with a chick 14 weeks after our roosters were gone. Our options of father are turkey tom, quail cock, or a pheasant rooster... by the looks of the chick this far (and the fact that the tom is entirely unlikely) i'm thinking quail? It would be a wild quail or pheasant, either way, and entirely not on purpose. Sometimes nature does what it wants.

How long have the roosters been gone?