Ringneck x Guinea hybrid

[FarmAir]

Chirping​

So, I used to have a bunch of ringneck pheasant and my husband accidentally left the door open and everything but one of my albino hens took off. I didn't want to get rid of her and she was lonely so I figured pheasants and guineas are both aggressive types of birds so I put her in the pin with the guineas.
Laying season just recently started, and her being a hen of course she started laying. At first I was just throwing away the eggs and then I thought to myself, maybe I can put these incubator see what happens. From the first batch of five I put in, 2 of them have babies growing. So, my question is does anybody have this specific mix of offspring? Are they sterile? I know with different mixes between the different mixes if birds some are sterile some that hatch are mostly just males, but there are certain mixes within the gene pool that actually have fertile offspring.

 

[RosemaryDuck]

How long ago did the others escape? Birds can be fertile from their last mating for about 3 weeks.

If you do have hybrids the females will be sterile while the males have a chance of being able to breed. Or they could all be sterile.

There is very little information on fowl hybrids as most don't make it to hatch day (the chances are very, very low). There are reported cases but most are several decades old and the info is 'iffy'. I hope this helps!

 

[FarmAir]

How long ago did the others escape? Birds can be fertile from their last mating for about 3 weeks.

If you do have hybrids the females will be sterile while the males have a chance of being able to breed. Or they could all be sterile.

There is very little information on fowl hybrids as most don't make it to hatch day (the chances are very, very low). There are reported cases but most are several decades old and the info is 'iffy'. I hope this helps!

They got out the beginning of January. The eggs I collected were just under 2 weeks ago, so there's no chance she's been bred by another pheasant. I finally candled them last night. I only candled 1 batch, but I'll continue to set her eggs in the incubator. How cool would that be?! I've got a wide variety of guinea colors, and she is an albino ringneck. I think the babies would be beautiful.

 

[GoldenFlight]

Any update on the hybrids? I’m very interested!