Pheasant Chicken Hybrids

[Trexroo]

Chicken and Turkey hybrids are possible but only for a short while. The hen turkey will actually develop anti bodies against rooster seamen.

 

[rainbowhatchery]

I have heard of that cross but also never seen it and I know a million people that keep them together including us. I have heard that one though.

 

[chooks4life]

Chicken and Turkey hybrids are possible but only for a short while. The hen turkey will actually develop anti bodies against rooster seamen.

I've heard that happens with most hybrids, whether mammals or birds or fish or whatever. And if she doesn't develop antibodies to the semen it's often a case of developing antibodies to the embryo instead. Progressively they can develop more and more resistance to conceiving hybrid offspring so your chances can diminish with each mating successful or otherwise. And theoretically females with immune system issues would be better at conceiving hybrids because of the antibody issue.

 

[Nickeyo]

turkey chicken hybrids are very rare, there was an experiment and out of like 500 eggs, 2 or 3 were fertile and 1 hatched

 

[Trexroo]

turkey chicken hybrids are very rare, there was an experiment and out of like 500 eggs, 2 or 3 were fertile and 1 hatched

Can you share reference information for that experiment??

 

[Nickeyo]

This page has info on most hybrids, scroll down for the chicken cross turkeys or chicken cross peafowl etc

http://messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-birds.htm

 

[Ntsees]

Good info on hybrids. Kinda off topic a little, but the passenger pigeon part caught my attention. I recall having learned that the species tend to be a colonial species and they bred only when they were large groups. Right before they became extinct, there was only a pair kept captively and they never bred because of the supposed colonial breeding habit. I find it interesting that CO Whitman managed to cross a male PP to a domestic ringneck dove. If the colonial breeding habit of the passenger pigeon was indeed true and CO Whitman did produce such a cross, perhaps it was failure on the female passenger pigeon's part that it needed to be in a large group? Either that, or the curator of the last pair of birds wasn't good enough to breed them.

Anyway, good info on the link.

 

[joelly123]

Does anyone have any updated pics of their hybrids? Would love to know if they start to get pheasant colours as they mature

 

[Luke 13V34]

I'd love to know the chromosome counts of pheasants and chickens. Chickens are posted somewhere, but I couldn't find any other poultry.

 

[quackers57]

This page has info on most hybrids, scroll down for the chicken cross turkeys or chicken cross peafowl etc

http://messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-birds.htm

good find