Rocky Horror - Transexual Transilvanian Zebra

[VR1Ton]

I honestly don't know, I used to breed a few a few years back, but have been out of them for too long and just don't know what is available these days.

[finchbreeder]

Well I thought I had posted it on here, maybe it was somewhere else. Either way it is a real oddball. (The quail that is.) Oh and it's mother, after it's father died started to develop the white and black bib. Then died.
LML

[GregH]

Thanks for the information it sounds like this is likely to be a mutant of some sort. I should have known my new zebs were anything but normal in spite of the assurances. When I get back to Australia I'm not telling where I'll get my normal zebs from! the "half-siders" sound interesting (I've seen a photo of a Gouldian on this site somewhere) and possibly are true hermaphrodites of even chimeras. Going under the knife and a few DNA test would be the most definative way to solve the puzzle. Looking around in the scientific literature I fund that true hermaphrodites are described in chickens (http://www.jstor.org/pss/1592054), with an incidence of 1 on 2000 and that these birds have triploid sex chromosomes(ZWW). I other instances old hens with a diseased ovary in or birds that have had their ovary removed, the primordial right gonad enlarges into somthing that produces enough androgens to masculinse the birds appearance.