gamble coturnix hybrid questions

[quail98]

I had a pair of gamble's and put them in a temperary pen in my shop to get away from the Buffalo gnats and a blacksnake ate the hen

So now the gnats r gone and he has been back in his. Pen outside with a gold coturnix hen for 2 weeks and she lays an egg a day I put them in the incubator in 2 groups with all the other coturnox eggs with a x on them

Its been a week now and I candled them and 4 out of the first 7 were fetal and the second group has been in for 4 days and 2 out of 6 seem to have veins already

So my question is how long till lockdown 14 days like a coturninx it longer like the gamble or somewere in the middle any help would b great I really hope they hatch

 

[Habibs Hens]

hmm thats weird are you sure its gamble cross coturnix as the 2 genus cant interbreed


gambles is Callipepla genus and a new world quail

and the cotournix is Cotournix genus and an old world quail

i think its prestored sperm in the hen from before

 

[quail98]

Idk how long can she stay feral? Because the second week of eggs have some development to

I have heard of Bob birds a coturnix Bob white cross so maybie it will work lol

 

[quail98]

Anyone else??

 

[Speceider]

A quick search of the bird hybrids website doesn't identify any Callipepla hybrids with Coturnix. If they are actual hybrids, you should report it.

Clint

 

[Habibs Hens]

A quick search of the bird hybrids website doesn't identify any Callipepla hybrids with Coturnix. If they are actual hybrids, you should report it.

Clint

bird hybrid website?

have you got a link

 

[quail98]

If they hatch I will update some photos most the eggs r fetal so surely something will hatch

 

[Sycamore27]

Has she been with a coturnix roo before? Birds can store sperm for a long time and keep laying fertile eggs.
Depending on species birds have been recorded storing sperm for up to one hundred days.
Cheers,
Jessie

 

[quail98]

Yes she had been with the other hens in with coturnix roos so maybe that's what's going on I still got my hopes up though lol

 

[Ntsees]

Just wanted to throw something out regarding what I've observed. When coturnix mate, the males may actively chases and grabs hold the female from behind - much like what chickens do. Male coturnix initiate the mating regardless of whether the female is willing or not. In the new world quails I've had experience with (mountain and valleys), the males mate only when the females "submit". If the female doesn't submit, there's no mating. So you could pretty much say that the females for the new world quails initiate the mating. Because gambels are closely related to valleys, I'd suspect gambels would also mate the same. So here we have 2 different mating strategies - coturnix and gambels. I do not think a gambel-coturnix cross may work, but I'm open to the possibility (no cheating though..i.e. artificial insemination).