can birds of different types (e/g/ a robin and a chicken) mate and produce chicks?
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The answer is either “No” with a but or “Yes” with an and.\n\nRobins and chickens are totally separate species of birds. They are no more closely related than humans are to baboons. You wouldn’t expect a human and a baboon to be able to mate and produce babies would you? So no, robins and chickens can’t interbreed.\n\nHowever there are many different species of animal that CAN interbreed and produce offspring. But the different species need to be fairly closely related, far more closely than human and baboon… or a chicken and a robin.\n\nFor example we can interbreed horses and donkeys to produce baby mules, and we can breed cattle and buffalo, or camels and llamas. \n\nAnd the same is true of birds. While chickens can’t be bred with robins they are often bred with guinea fowl and pheasants for example, and occasionally bred with turkeys (see links below). \n\n\nSo to answer the question, yes different types of bird can mate and produce chicks, there's no doubt about that. But chickens and robins are not two types that are capable of it. Chickens and turkeys or chickens and pheasants are.\n\n\n>>>>>A robin and a chicken might be a stretch, but how about\n>>>>>two different types of sparrows? \n\nYes, in fact the various sparrow species are amongst the most likely to hybridise.\n\n>>>>>>Does it ever happen in the wild?\n\nRegularly. See the last two links.\n\n__________________________\n\nAddenda\n\nScientist said: "Only organisms of the same species can produce viable offspring"\n\nThat is simply not true. \n\nI know they teach you that in school, but it has no factual basis whatsoever and is not accepted by any biologist anywhere on the planet.\n\nJust to name a few examples cattle and bison, wolves and coyotes and fin and blue whales are all perfectly capable of breeding. They all interbreed commonly in the wild and the offspring are all perfectly fertile and have young themselves. \n\nEven lions and tigers will produce offspring that are capable of producing cubs, though most are not, and there have been at least 2 documented cases of mules having foals.\n\n\nUnless someone wants to argue that cattle and buffalo are the same species then ability to produce fertile offspring doesn't prevent two animals being seperate species in any way.\n\n\nSal said: "There are different kinds of chickens that can interbreed with each other. But a chicken can't breed with a turkey."\n\nA total lie with no basis in reality. I just provided links which prove that turkeys can breed with chickens.\n\nSal also said"This is one of thousands of examples as to why the theory of evolution is hard to swallow. If animals can change into other kinds of animals, you would be able to see at least a slight form of interbreeding betweeen different species, but you dont."\n\nWell since I have proved this belief completely wrong, and Sal now knosw that interspecies breding is common, even in the wild, I guess Sal will now accept evolution?\n\nYeah, right. Like facts and evidence played any part his belief.
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The chicken evolved from another egg-laying bird. The first birds evolved from egg-laying reptiles, which evolved from egg-laying amphibians, which evolved from egg-laying fish. Going back to the beginning, minute variation in the "ovulation" cycle of whatever creature first laid an egg of any type.
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Turkeys are notable for their ability, rare amongst higher species, to reproduce asexually. In the absence of a male, female Turkeys are known to produce fertile eggs. The individual produced is often sickly, and nearly always male. This behaviour can interfere with the incubation of eggs in Turkey farming[1].\n\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...
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birds can be found all over the world. It all depends on what kind of bird.
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Depends on the species... I think its either King or Emperor penguins that court each other with pebbles - if th female accepts the male's pebble then they stay together for the rest of their lives, I believe (having said that there's increasing evidence that the swan, held high as the paragon of fidelity, will cheat on its partner if it can)
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Not generally. Most egg laying chickens are not kept with males, and so are never fertilized. Much like a woman, however, the egg still comes out, but it's not been fertilized.. so, like with humans, you wouldn't call the egg an embryo. \n\nThere have been some reports of regular eggs which have gone on to hatch, so if you cracked it open before that stage, you might be able to eat a chicken embryo, but you'd totally know it was one.
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Tricky question.  No, they won't breed in the wild for the reasons given above.  However, in a loft, they may try to breed if the food is adequate and if extra light is given to them.  However, if the ambient temperature is not much above the outside air, then success is usually minimal.  Some parents are very, very good about covering the youngsters and they will thrive for the first week or so.  However, often when the parents begin to leave the nest and try to breed their second round, the young can't maintain enough body heat *since their own feather covering is minimal* and they freeze.  \n\nMost breeders will separate the sexes during the winter to stop breeding.  When I bred birds in New England, I often found that wasn't even necessary since most will not attempt to breed at all.  Also, if you put them on barley and corn (maize), you often find they don't want to breed anyway.\n\nSo, to answer.  Yeah, they might try to rear young in very cold climates given extra food & light, but success is usually very minimal.  There may be others who've had better success, but without specially heated buildings, I'm pretty sure that it wasn't something to be expected.
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Some of them are in my garden, others are down by the canal.   Are you short of sparrows?\n\nIt's difficult to count baby sparrows cos they won't sit still but it does seem like there's not quite as many as usual.  I blame the late spring.   The swans have only managed half their usual number of chicks; maybe the sparrows had similar trouble.\n\nThe bluetits are doing OK though (what a bleepin' racket...)
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I think it's the egg. I figure at some point two other kinds of birds got together and the result of their mating is what we now call a chicken. (Bird A + Bird B=Chicken). A second theory is that throughout time, some other bird evolved into what we now call a chicken. Well, either way, the answer is EGG.
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nothing, its just that its hatched by different kinds of chickens. that is it.thanks for the points!
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NO because if the two breed you get what is known as a Ginny it is a animal born of the two speicies but can not produce any offspring because it is sterile.
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Quail are very closely related to chicken. Here is a website about collecting from roosters:\nhttp://www.bernalpublishing.com/poultry/essays/essay14.shtml
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Interesting fact.  God did NOT create chickens!  They are a human creation.  A hybrid of 2 other types of birds.  They wanted to be able to combine the tastiness of one bird with the domesticability of another, and voila, they got a chicken.
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The following comes from our resident veterinary expert, DrMat:\n\nWell, you can't blame the chickens. They started out flying, after all. At least their ancestors did. The ancestor of modern chickens, the wild red jungle fowl (also a darn good name for a rock band), wasn't a great flier, but he could get around when he had to. The entire poultry family (chickens, turkeys, guineas, ducks) are adapted to living on the ground. Their beaks are better adapted to pecking off the ground, their feet to walking instead of perching, and their wings are smaller than other birds their size. \n\nEnter us. We take a perfectly happy wild red jungle fowl and start selectively breeding to produce bigger pectoralis muscles (that's the breast portion, for those of you who only see chickens in buckets) and eventually you get a bird who couldn't get off the ground if they thought of it, which they don't. Chickens comprise some of the thousands of artificial breeds that humans have created. Many domestic fowl, turkeys especially, have such large, um, breast portions, that they can no longer breed normally and must be artificially inseminated. This is a double whammy to the male poultry ego, such as it is. \n\nBottom line: those hot wings you like to wash down with your Pabst are really vestigial limbs. And if you can tell your buddies that at happy hour, maybe they'll let you drive.\n\n\nhope that helps\n=)\n\n\n\nalso i have over 20 chickens and they can jump in the air and stay for about 2 seconds. theyre just too fat and theyre wings are short.
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Spreading genes can be accomplished in more ways than one.  The actual problem is how to reproduce and rear as many offspring as possible given the time and resources available.  Albatross chicks (to use your example) are reared under difficult conditions requiring the cooperation of two parents; a strong pair-bond assists in making this possible.  Human children take many years to grow up; a strong pair-bond between their parents helps to ensure the survival of more children than might otherwise be able to make it. \n\nMonogamy, therefore, is beneficial not just to males (who get regular sex and the emotional satisfaction of the pair-bond), or to females (who get protection and assistance in the rearing of their children), but especially to the children who get a more stable and successful start to their lives than they otherwise might.  This, in turn, ensures the survival of the species.
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I can assure you that this is absolutely not biologically possible.  Members of different species cannot reproduce and produce viable offpsring together, according to the classical definition of a species.
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Only about 2 weeks.  A mating pair of robins might have two or three different "clutches" of eggs over a season, so they can raise two or three families a season.\n\nThese links should help you.