Courtnix quail mixed with a&m

[jbuzbee]

Would this be a problem for hatching if not what will the hatchlings look like will they even breed? Someone told me an a&m is a courtnix is this true?

 

[CrowWing Native]

Texas A&M are Coturnix quail. They are white, because they have been breed with the white mutation to make them appear as cleaner production birds. They are larger because of selective breeding for size.

You can breed the standard Coturnix with the Texas A&M with no problems. I am not sure what the hatch will look like. I have both, but are now breeding them separate.

I would suggest breeding them separate, so that you don't deteriorate the progression of the selective breeding of the A&M. They are your birds, so you decide.

 

[kingmt]

You may get what is often call tuxedos. Likely a bunch of ugly mutts (IMO).

 

[dc3085]

White is recessive, brown is incomplete dominant. Breeding brown x white will create 'splits' as some call them. Youll have a brown bird that when crossed with another brown/recessive white bird with generate a percentage of white birds. White only creates tuxedos when crossed over range,tibetan,scarlet, and golden. White wing pharaohs are not created by crossing brown x white.

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[cosmosue]

Ok so I know this is years old - the thread but I’m posting anyway! Lol

If I had all brown coturnix (I have a few odd colored Browns with more red in them and one with a dark face and one with a bit of a barred pattern) anyway I have one brown male my son named Phoenix because he’s a bit redder...

Since he got a name... well let’s say he was saved from the freezer lololol

Anyway he came from a batch of Texas eggs I got from a Texas breeder and some of my own eggs I got from my browns. (He was not a mix or split)

Then I did my thing but kept about 7 from that big hatch. I kept an all pure white, a white with a brown back spot and head spot, and then some typical one spot whites. They all still live happily together and I even think one of the Texas birds is a male, but they are not fighting so I’ve left them...

Anyway!!! Phoenix the slightly redder brown male did the deed with the white hens of different spot varieties. I did a test and took 10 eggs. A test for fertility, color, hatch rate etc.

At first glance I got 10 hatched out of 10. 6 brown 4 white - 1 white died. So I had then 6 brown 3 white and one white with a double spot...

Fast forward today, it’s been 4 weeks since hatch and one brown male now has white wing feathers...


So if you can’t get white winged brown quail by mixing brown and white... how do you get it because now I have a brown male with white flights (not all of them but I think they are switching over as he molts out baby feathers...)

Is it because the male he probably came from is slightly redder than typical browns? I’ve also read that perhaps I can get tux by breeding this white winged one back to the white hens...

I like mutts. I keep the interesting colors and the rest go to the freezer... I have whites that mate with whites and browns that mate browns, and then I have this batch of mixology that I keep... I also have Cali but they are not breeding yet...

Ok just wondering I know it’s an old post but I was excited to get this different color lol

 

[CapricornFarm]

But Texas A and M are not just birds from a breeder in Texas. They are from the University that developed the variety as meat birds. They are all white with a spot on their heads.

 

[007Sean]

I have some A&M's that are solid white no brown spots at all.
With everyone breeding everything with whatever they have now days, it's hard to find pure birds anymore. Chances are your going to get some normal phenotypes, some tuxedo phenotypes, depending on whether they have the recessive white gene.

 

[cosmosue]

LOL from a breeder in Texas - no I am well aware of their origin and right, there is likely no way my birds are “pure” lol I was trying to figure out what genes my birds might be hiding. Lol.

 

[CapricornFarm]

The A and Ms are moulting like crazy right now, looks like a snow storm!