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The Texas A&M strain is dead or never even existed. Depending on how you look at it. White coturnix come in 2 sizes, regular or jumbo. They do not come in any designer A&M package.
Why is this so hard for logical coturnix breeders to get a grip on?
Sorry...I know a guy that has the real deal....I'll shut up now.
The Texas A and M is basically (and this is what I was taught) an English White chosen for the weight, bred selectively by the size in hopes to be the next table bird. The strain is pretty much gone, yes. We still can call the larger English Whites that but They are basically Jumbo English Whites, kind of like the pharaohs and the Jumbo Brown...same bird just one bigger...makes sense??
As with Panda and dotted whites...those are just beginning names to what we have today. You can call your birds whatever you want but the real names are there and you can't change them. Pandas were the beginnings of the tuxedos and are long gone UNLESS you are starting your own strain of tuxedos and the first gen comes out with the weird blotches..same with the dotted whites...but in actuality they are unfavorable. I just got an offspring from two red tuxes, all red but the facial markings has white...do I go about calling it Red Panda???? LOL It sure looks like it and I can "name" it that way but it is in my red tuxedo line and it is called a red tuxedo and that is what it is.
This is where we disagree. Without the Jumbo Browns there would be no Jumbos. They were developed by Texas A&M, then the English Whites added to the mix. But what you are forgetting is the meat. The meat tells all. I have processed my extra MG's and seen their development (where the Texas A&M Jumbo Browns and Whites must have been many years ago, striated). Well the JB's have matured they aren't striated anymore and now I can find out why. So I am done asking questions about the meat. I know.
Sorry, but to me if a White comes from a Jumbo Brown Crossing its still a Texas A&M White. Doesn't matter if its not as large as they used to be. They are still larger than the pharoah size. I have yet to check their meat though.
But that's great if you don't believe there is such a thing as Texas A&M's, that's fine. We can keep em here. You don't believe, just tells me you don't have anything like them.
Here's some Theory for you. Take a bird, theorize what it could possibly become, then set out to do it. Send it out to breeders and cross your fingers that they keep breeding them for size and meat. Hope that they can further develope them and help them along. Hope that they have access to the proper feed for them, check to see what happens when they don't. Dr Thornberry you can have these JB's everynight for dinner. Just let me know. On the wings of an Angel.
You want another bird developed. How many years are you willing to wait. 10, 30, 50 years. All that Theory and Development takes time to breed and more time to mature. Would you know what to do with it when it comes out. Would you believe.
Panda & Dotted Whites - exactly. Yes I want to backbreed to a real Panda and a true Dotted White. Just for me. Hopefully I have what I want, to do so in the brooder. Maybe come Spring, I won't have to. In the mean time I will enjoy eating my Jumbo Browns, my Jumbo M Golds and my soon to be Jumbo Texas A&M Whites. Now I am not talking mobyquail, just Jumbos and what they were developed for, their meat.
I have access to the numbers to keep the diversification and genetic drift at bay, so I don't really need to trade/buy to try to find what I want. Oh, some of those True A&M breeders have contacted me.
