King Quail Multiplication

[geolemer]

A few months ago I bought 6 King Quail. I've put every egg I get in the incubator, and how I have over 120 Quail and counting. My question is if you start with a breeding pair, under optimum conditions, how many Quail could you end up with in One Year?

 

[Quail Jailer]

If a tree falls in the woods and theres no one there to hear it, does it smash any quail?

Theres no hard answer to your question.

I'm afraid I don't know what a king quail is but a coturnix hen can lay 300 eggs a year, you could probably hatch 16 generations, but still no hard answer too many ifs and whens.

 

[dc3085]

Stateside most people refer to king quail as button quail or cbbq or cpq.

The answer is you could end up with WAY more buttons than you will have any way to get rid of or be able to properly pair off.

Buttons are extremely territorial and naturally prefer to breed in a pair since they mate for life. I'm curious as to how you are keeping that many pairs separate (you aren't) and what you plan to do when these things all start fighting?

I could do the math and answer the question but you didn't say how many hens you started with, what your fertility rate is, and what your hatch rate is.

 

[geolemer]

First of all they don't mate for life. Second I do have them separated.

 

[Quail Jailer]

First of all they don't mate for life. Second I do have them separated.

First of all they sure DO, I know this and I don't raise buttons. Second DC has probably forgotten more about quail than most of us will ever know.

As for the "other" statement PFFFT..Show me.

 

[dc3085]

First of all they don't mate for life. Second I do have them separated.

http://www.featheredobsessions.com/Button_Quail_Care.html

http://brackenridgeranch.com/site/Housing-and-Feed/

http://www.cyberquail.com/breeding.html

http://thebreed.yuku.com/topic/316/Chinese-Blue-Breasted-Quail-AKA-Button-Quail#.U87kvfldXBc

You will find the monogamous habits of button quail discussed in every link here. They don't truly "mate for life" because they will replace their mate if it is lost but they are monogamous and will retain a mate for life if possible.

 

[Quail Jailer]

http://www.featheredobsessions.com/Button_Quail_Care.html

http://brackenridgeranch.com/site/Housing-and-Feed/

http://www.cyberquail.com/breeding.html

http://thebreed.yuku.com/topic/316/Chinese-Blue-Breasted-Quail-AKA-Button-Quail#.U87kvfldXBc

You will find the monogamous habits of button quail discussed in every link here. They don't truly "mate for life" because they will replace their mate if it is lost but they are monogamous and will retain a mate for life if possible.

I'm not on the short rope but they got me tied to a tree....

 

[dc3085]

First of all they don't mate for life. Second I do have them separated.

I really wasn't trying to put a damper on your thread, I was just pointing things out. It's not like I think your torturing your birds or something.

How many males and how many females do you have?

 

[LizardKing]

You will find the monogamous habits of button quail discussed in every link here. They don't truly "mate for life" because they will replace their mate if it is lost but they are monogamous and will retain a mate for life if possible.

I thought that was true for pretty much all animals that are thought to "mate for life".
One dies, they may accept another mate.
I now have 16 BQ, the last 8 are only 3 weeks old now, the other 7 weeks old.
I have one trio (because they get along?) and one male all alone because he was picked on by everyone else.
He won't stop crowing but I hope to get him a mate from the younger birds but need to wait until they are older.

 

[dc3085]

I thought that was true for pretty much all animals that are thought to "mate for life".
One dies, they may accept another mate.
I now have 16 BQ, the last 8 are only 3 weeks old now, the other 7 weeks old.
I have one trio (because they get along?) and one male all alone because he was picked on by everyone else.
He won't stop crowing but I hope to get him a mate from the younger birds but need to wait until they are older.

I'm not aware of any species that won't replace it's mate but people tend to really dissect what I say on here so I stick to posting only things I can swear by.