Comparing quail sizes

Reedsgirl Just found out i am going to bend tomarroe ho far are you let me know im taking my lap top

Tammy N said:

Reedsgirl Just found out i am going to bend tomarroe ho far are you let me know im taking my lap top 

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Bend is about a four hour drive if you hustle, plus I work from about 7:30am until about 6pm so really limits what times I can meet up with you. I don't have a whole lot of eggs right now, just put about 300 of them into making dog food on Sunday, lol. I do have almost 30 JMF chicks just hatched this weekend though.

My poor incubators are overflowing full, got quail, seramas, turkey's and some mixed breed chickens all in there and having to shift around because all going into lockdown at different times. So far I think I have 28 quail chicks out and about 7 quail eggs still in and chicken eggs going into lockdown tomorrow.

I just wanted to meet someone else into Quail thought it would be fun i have more eggs coming in from Robbi
I am so hyped
Building up my breeder birds and egg hens keeping etra hens and roos that i would rate Second to the 16 oz birds being 14oz at 8 weeks

my doggy loves the eggs so we have to have extra and that way if i loose some of my girls i will have a spare same with the roos

Mark just thinks i am addicted LOL

COMPARING QUAIL SIZES - Great thread, I read the hole 20 pages. My question is did you all have to modify your turning racks for the JMF eggs?

gmcstreak said:

COMPARING QUAIL SIZES  -  Great thread, I read the hole 20 pages. My question is did you all have to modify your turning racks for the JMF eggs?

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I use a gqf sportsman incubator. The only modification I had to make was sometimes having to skip spaces so the eggs would fit in the trays and made spacers to hold the trays apart further when stacking. Otherwise I couldn't stack two trays without the larger eggs getting cracked be the top tray.
The JMF quail eggs are big. I learned to be able to judge which were going to be double yoke and those go straight to the frig for eating, won't even try to get them in a incubator tray.

Wow, a GQF Sportsman, that a nice incubator. I've got a Genesis 1588 small big time compared to the sportsman. I no the sportsman is totally a different set up - I use the standard GQF turner for the Genesis, if I take two racks out and space the rest out and set the bigger eggs between the smaller ones it might work, are skip a space like you said. But to be on the safe side I would probably have to notch out the racks to make more space. What do you think - what would a double yoke egg weigh? I noticed you live in Tex., I live in Abilene, where in Tex., are you.

gmcstreak said:

Wow, a GQF Sportsman, that a nice incubator. I've got a Genesis 1588 small big time compared to  the sportsman. I no the sportsman is totally a different set up - I use the standard GQF turner for the Genesis, if I take two racks out and space the rest out and set the bigger eggs between the smaller ones it might work, are skip a space like you said. But to be on the safe side I would probably have to notch out the racks to make more space. What do you think - what would a double yoke egg weigh? I noticed you live in Tex., I live in Abilene, where in Tex., are you.                                                          

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I'm in Ponder, north of Ft. worth.
I went with the sportsman because I also raise Jersey giants, Turkey and peafowl. Lots of incubating and hatching. I sometimes have all 3 hatching trays of the hatcher and the one in the sportsman all full of hatching chicks/poults at one time.
Adjust what ever you need to to make sure your eggs have the room to turn and not get to much pressure on them.
I've can usually tell a double yoke by just looking at it now. When I started weighing I was separating out any egg over 18 grams if if I remember right. I gathered this one tonight, went straight to the eating egg basket!

I use two Brinsea octagon 20 and a separate home made incubator for lockdown especially during the busy hatch season. I have been really busy hatching turkey and chicken eggs lately so haven't even done much quail hatching. The nice thing about the Brinsea is I can put any size egg, no rails to worry about size.

I have been so busy haven't been updating here much but I do have my first pure JMF-F1 replacement breeders near the point of lay. I kept out two cages of breeders from my last hatch, nine females and two males that were the largest. I butchered all the extra roosters yesterday and was happy with the sizes. I couldn't do actual weight however because the batteries were dead in the scale and I wasn't going to make a special trip to town in the middle of butchering.

I did do an experiment with this batch, I pressure canned the quail. I was able to just fit 2- 2 1/2 quail per pint jar and processed at 10 pounds of pressure for 65 minutes. Opened a test jar last night and the texture and flavor was amazing. Should make some excellent lunch meat for sandwiches.

Ponder, cool that's about 3 hours away. Which breed or you and Reedgirl20 raising from JMF, I can't remember. The America Pharaoh, James Marie Pharaoh, or the Pharaoh XLD. I'm going to order the Tex A&M but can't DECIDE on the brown bird. Out of the 4 breed I listed and from what I've read here and else where they or all pretty close to being the same weight at 7 to 8 weeks. Any comment here from you and Reedgirl20 about your thoughts on the largest bird at 7 to 8 week from JMF would be appreciated.

gmcstreak said:

Ponder, cool that's about 3 hours away. Which breed or you and Reedgirl20 raising from JMF, I can't remember. The America Pharaoh, James Marie Pharaoh, or the Pharaoh XLD. I'm going to order the Tex A&M but can't DECIDE on the brown bird. Out of the 4 breed I listed and from what I've read here and else where they or all pretty close to being the same weight at 7 to 8 weeks. Any comment here from you and Reedgirl20 about your thoughts on the largest bird at 7 to 8 week from JMF would be appreciated.

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We both have been raising the James Marie jumbo brown line C birds, shipped eggs, hatched then selected our breeders by weight culling. I cull by egg size then bird weight at 6 and 8 weeks of age. My second generation has been bigger at 5-6 weeks than the breeders I kept from the original egg hatch. My only complaint is double yoke egg from some hens, set aside to eat only. Couldn't be happier with the size for table birds.