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If you could only send just a little bit of that warm stuff my way? Seems the older I get, the colder the winters get...lol. I'm thinking I need to head further south?
Do you know of any advantage of a coturnix roo x bobwhite hen cross? I saw in another thread it is possible but the offspring would be sterile. Would the cross produce a faster maturing, better egg laying, or less skittish bird? Just thought I would ask your opinion on what would be gained in the cross, if anything?
1ST--- THAT WHOLE MOVE FARTHER SOUTH THING.... I THINK THATS CALLED "MIGRATION"-------- LOL
2ND--- THE "BOB BIRD" IS A HIGHBRID OF COTURNIX AND BOB WHITE (PURISTS CALL IT A FREAK OF NATURE) IT WAS DONE FOR 2 REASONS--- DEPENDING ON WHICH SIDE OF THE FENCE YOUR ON... FROM THE COTURNIX SIDE--- BETTER TASTING/ FROM THE BOB SIDE--- A FASTER MATURING BIRD. SOME FOLKS HAVE CREATED THEM AND TRIED TO MARKET THEM BOTH WAYS AS WELL AS A "TRAINING AID" FOR DOG TRAINERS(WHICH THEY FAIL MISERABLY AT...) ***FROM ALL THE RESEARCH I HAVE SEEN***===THEY ARE NOT STERILE, THO FERTILITY ISNT GREAT. THEY ARE NOT GREAT FLIERS AS BOBS OR AS SPASTIC AS BOBS(THUS THEY DONT WORK FOR THE DOG TRAINERS...), BUT MORE SPASTIC THAN COTURNIX. THE SIZE IS NO REAL CHANGE. TASTE I HAVE NO IDEA? THEY ARE SLOW MATURING --- FULL SIZE 16-18 WKS- NOT MUCH BETTER THAN BOBS, AND WORSE THAN COTURNIX. BASICALLY ITS A COMPROMISE AT BEST. THE PURISTS AND DOG TRAINERS OF THE WORLD SAY "WHY BOTHER?" AND IT HASNT CAUGHT ON WITH COTURNIX FOLKS YET EITHER BECAUSE IT MATURES SLOWER. I HAVE NO IDEA OF THE EGG PRODUCTION CAPABILITY BUT AS THE REST OF THE DEAL IS A 50-50 COMPROMISE I WOULD TEND TO EXPECT A LESSER EGG PRODUCTION RATE THAN STANDARD COTURNIX. TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE LOWER LAYING RATE OF MOMMA(BOB WHITE HEN) AND THAT MEANS A SLOWER PRODUCTION RATE OF BOB BIRDS TO START WITH. I PERSONALLY THINK ITS PROBABLY A NEAT LOOKING ODDITY, BUT NOT MUCH MORE THAN THAT. THE PURISTS WILL STICK TO THEIR BOBS AND THE QUANTITY FOLKS WILL GO WITH COTURNIX--- SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE THE BOB BIRD?
IF YOU HAVE AN INTEREST IN CHECKING THEM OUT FURTHER VEGA FARMS WAS TRYING TO MARKET THEM ON HERE--- DO A USER SEARCH AND SEND THEM A PM...
