Interesting hatch

[Pavo Royale]

I had a mixture of about twenty cotornix qauil, all but one that were the standard color. They were laying about five eggs a day and I incubated about 30 eggs with five hatching (terrible, I know). None of the others were fertile. Now comes the interesting part...one of the parent stock was the dark variety; we always called it chocolate. Well, every one of these five are "chocolate", no standards. Go figure!

 

[thatchickenlady]

That is an interesting and fun result!

 

[BorderKelpie]

I wanna see!
Sounds pretty

 

[shelleyd2008]

That's because chocolate, otherwise known as tibetan, is dominant over just about every other color

 

[Pavo Royale]

That's because chocolate, otherwise known as tibetan, is dominant over just about every other color

I do not think it is that easy. If tibetan is dominant, which I believe it is, then that alone would not explain these results. From pure genetics and statistical probabiliy I would have had other standard cotornix in the mix. The chances of all five fertile eggs being tibetan are just too small. The one dark bird that had the gene had to be the only fertile bird of that gender in the parent stock. The probability of this happening with a recessive gene would be far, far less and would probabily not occur, even with the one dark bird being the only vaible producer.​

 

[shelleyd2008]

You've lost me. Tibetan is dominant, and if the tibetan is a male (which you never did say), it would be totally possible for all the chicks to be tibetan.

 

[canter6]

I'm lost as well.

It's been my short experience with light/white coturnix plus any brown, that brown trumps white in the first generation.
I have 11 chicks in my brooder right now that are a product of 2 brown roos + 5 A&M hens, and every one is brown.
That's not scientific, but pretty much what I was expecting.

 

[Pavo Royale]

I suspect that the dark bird was female and the only girl in the bunch laying good eggs. 1 out of 5 eggs per day were fertile and they were all dark. I think this is the only way this could have happened. Maybe I think too much

 

[JJMR794]

Pavo You May Be Onto Somethin.... Outta All The Girls You Got Workin For You It Sounds Likely That Only 1 Is Actually Making The Fertile Eggs. Or It Could Be That Only 1 Of Your Roos Is Up To The Task In This Lower Light Season?

 

[Pavo Royale]

There was some reason I didn't think it was a male. Oh yeah, even one fertile male could probabily keep up with the five or so hens and all of the eggs would have been good. And dark.