Crossing Tex AM with Jumbo Brown

[CoosaQuail]

Can I cross Texas A & M with a Jumbo Brown and what will I get?

 

[JJMR794]

YES

YOU WILL GET MOSTLY BROWNS AS THATS DOMINANT, MANY OF THE PROGENY WILL BE SPLITS AND IF BRED TO OTHER SPLITS MAY RESULT IN PIED OR WHITE BIRDS

 

[CoosaQuail]

oK thanks but will they big as the Texas A &M's?

 

[millebantam]

Really tough to answer without knowin' actual sizes or weights of both birds. My Jumbo browns will blow 99% of what people are callin' Texas(cough)A&M's out of the water.

 

[JJMR794]

A TRUE JUMBO BROWN SHOULD BE ABOUT THE SAME SIZE TO START WITH

 

[CoosaQuail]

I'm trying to get the biggest bird I can just wondering if these big AMS will make the Jumbos bigger.

 

[Stellar]

Jumbo Browns tend to slightly bigger than Jumbo White/A and M. You can cross them together to produce a bigger white bird if that is your goal.

 

[MobyQuail]

I crossed my biggest white birds with my biggest brown birds. most of these original birds were weighed from hatch to breeding. I only hatched eggs over 14 grams.

out of 40 chicks 38 were brown and 2 were gold.

I kept the 2 largest chicks that were both over 10 oz at 6 weeks, they were (splits) 50/50 Br/wh

I bred them and I am stagger hatching their eggs, as of right now I have close to 20 chicks. a simple punnett square showed I should get 25% white

Out of my first eggs I got several whites. I expect the whites to be as large as the browns from this hatch.

I will be weighing them and posting weights on a thread.

 

[Cyberous]

Bump this post back to life. I just hatced, or they are still hatching a batch of quail. Two brown females with a white "A&M" male, some of the chicks came out light colored with the racing stripes, the rest just normal brown with stripes. None of them came out looking like typical a & m chicks (yellow with dark spots) i will post pic on Sunday when I get home. Found it interesting.

 

[Cyberous]

ok here are the pictures, sorry for the red tint...they are still on heat.