I didn’t mean to do it, and in reality I had nothing to do with it, it was just a little science project…but somehow we cloned Rocky, albeit a pale imitation but otherwise an exact replica. Who may you ask is Rocky? He’s our Italian male, the one who got beat up by girls and needed couples therapy. A quail so sweet and dumb he just sits in your hand and lets you pet him, my son’s pride and joy. While we were chopping the heads off the extra males we got into a little kerfuffle, I wanted to keep the blue male but he’s a bit of a spaz, then my son walks up with this pale imitation just standing on his hand, a six week old pearl male with little one on one time with people! The silly bird is just like his dad, I couldn’t cut his head off, we kept him and ate the blue (gorgeous bird but nuts). Anybody ever clone a quail before? This silly thing is an exact copy of the original save the fee gene. I’d rather breed for color but temperament is taking precedence! Much rather have sweet and dumb than gorgeous and mean, why can’t they be gorgeous and sweet? I have a pretty scarlet tuxedo hen from this batch that I really wanted to keep but she’s a homicidal maniac and doesn’t like anybody. She’s got to go! How do antisocial quail survive when they are such social birds?
