Mixing Quail with Another Breed

[MysteryChicken]

My Silkie is named Snuggle Bug. He's a purebred Chinese Silkie, and if you were wondering why his earlobes aren't a pretty blue. Our Phoenix decided to beat up on him, and bit up his earlobes, and they changed from bright Periwinkle to red with periwinkle spots.

 

[paneubert]

I posted an academic article about trying to cross a chicken with a quail a while back. I will see if I can find it again. The outcome was not good if I recall.

 

[paneubert]

The offspring will be sterile, but the actual cross of a chicken and quail is not impossible. It has been done "for decades".

This is from a restricted source, so I should not post the actual copy of the article, but these folks in the 1970's did it. They found it only worked with the mother being a quail. Mother chicken did not work.

Journal or Book Title: Poultry science
Article or Chapter Title: "Attempts to Obtain Quail x Chicken Hybrids"
Author: Sarvella, P
Issue: 5
Month:
Year: 1970
Pages: 1176-1178

If you want to read the thread/topic that caused me to post that comment originally (this one today was a cut and paste of that comment), check this out.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/chicken-quail-hybrid.847299/

 

[MysteryChicken]

Mules were sterile for quite along time too, but recently there were two cases of mules giving birth to baby mules.

 

[MysteryChicken]

https://www.denverpost.com/2007/07/25/mules-foal-fools-genetics-with-impossible-birth/
Here's the article.

 

[MysteryChicken]

It talks about first case, this is my example, to young, and anyone else who wants too look at it.

 

[MysteryChicken]

My phone is stupid, it put young instead of you.