How do you prevent inbreeding with coturnix?

[bridgetchicken]

How do you prevent inbreeding with coturnix quails? Or is it okay?

 

[Patiocoturnix]

How do you prevent inbreeding with coturnix quails? Or is it okay?

Every 2-3 generations you need to add new fresh genetics and do not breed siblings together.

 

[bridgetchicken]

Every 2-3 generations you need to add new fresh genetics and do not breed siblings together.

So with my current batch of coturnix eggs that I am hatching I should look for males from outside my batch if I want to breed them?

 

[Patiocoturnix]

So with my current batch of coturnix eggs that I am hatching I should look for males from outside my batch if I want to breed them?

Yeah if they are from the same parents

 

[Nabiki]

How large a population do you have? If you do inbreed, it's best to breed parents to offspring rather than sibling to sibling. If you have a large enough population to have at least three breeding sets, you can extend the time for new blood by doing spiral breeding.

Spiral breeding is where you take a male from pen 1 and put him in pen 2. Put a male from pen 2 into pen 3, and put a male from pen 3 into pen 1. Repeat every 2 or 3 generations. You still need to bring in new blood, but you can delay it a few more generations.