deadlock 0 Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Has anyone ever done it ? or heard of any one doing it ???? Quote Link to post
millytheterrier 12 Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Personality I havent bred these together, but I would think you could. But you have gave me a good idea, might give it ago myself. Craig Quote Link to post
OldTrapCollector 377 Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 Having bred hundreds of thousands of partridges I would very much like to see the result of this outcross if it were possible, which I doubt OTC Quote Link to post
hily 380 Posted June 17, 2009 Report Share Posted June 17, 2009 not sure but if its possible to do if so is it not allowed as it could corrupt the native grays because i think you are not allowed to release chuccers . some one out their may know the legal side of it . Quote Link to post
mudman 14 Posted June 18, 2009 Report Share Posted June 18, 2009 Should be perfectly possible with a caged pair. It has even been recorded occsionally in wild birds. A few years ago I was driving across the new stubble and found a cock grey paired with a redleg and five poults. Called someone at the game conservancy who said that the poults would be redlegs with a hen redleg who had lost her mate. Like wise the grey would have lost his mate, but they have such strong parenting instinct that he 'adopted' the redlegs as his own. Got to be my favourite gamebird by a long way the grey partridge, just such a shame modern farming has just about done for them. Quote Link to post
deadlock 0 Posted June 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 I believe it a would be possible you can cross a gold finch with a green finch , a chicken with a pheasant or a ginga fowl and a saker with a peregrine so surely, and as long as you don't release them no body can say f all . Quote Link to post
farmerrich 1 Posted June 21, 2009 Report Share Posted June 21, 2009 I believe it a would be possible you can cross a gold finch with a green finch , a chicken with a pheasant or a ginga fowl and a saker with a peregrine so surely, and as long as you don't release them no body can say f all . Probably possible, particularly with a captive pair but any offspring of the two would almost certainly be infertile so there would unlikely to be a problem with releasing these birds. It would be interesting to rear a few and see how they performed. If anyone wanted to try I would be very happy to volunteer my shoot for a couple of hundred . Quote Link to post
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