Recent content by MobyQuail

The PURINA GBS 30% is the gold standard to me. I've tried FRM and Dumors 28% and Purina is superior, their fastest growth is weeks 3-6 imho and they can gain ounces per week during that phase. Everyday they gain a percentage of their weight. The bigger they are, the more they gain.

going on a couple years now... I've still got over a dozen pairs of birds hatched from earlier this year. Still line breeding them- no outcrosses, still only hatching eggs greater than 14g, still very happy with the birds. getting ready to start setting more eggs for this years crop of...

I've become so coturnix cynical that I rarely respond to claims of weight without seeing a video of a bird on a scale...Ive seen some simply post on this thread to drum up egg sales for themselves. I have plenty of young, big, brown hens and roos (that all hit the standards) ready to go for...

I've got several pens set up now with young 2015 birds that all made the marks, generation over generation over generation. Plan on hatching through summer to build up my numbers again and get back into more eggs than the dogs can eat... I have found my new favorite way of cooking the...

I always trim beaks before intros and I watch them carefully.

"Tatanka" raising the Standard...Jumbo Coturnix (Japanese Quail) BEAK: slightly curved not flat. EYES: expressive, green. HEAD: large, wide. square when viewed from top. NECK: thick, slight arch. WINGS: fairly small BREAST: prominent, full, well defined. BODY: similar to other poultry meat...

v2.10.2015

Pure Roux birds carry the dilute gene- (requires 2 dilute alleles in males but only one in females to show), and look exactly like brown coturnix but lighter. Some call them roux, dilutes or egyptians. Pure Golden birds- Italians (carrying one fawn gene) and Manchurians (carrying two fawn...

white is recessive in brown quail like red is recessive in black cows. the "splits", brown quail carrying a white allele, do look slightly different if you are familiar with them.

2 of the birds from v12.8 @ 35 days.

14 days v12.8 21 days old v12.8

I try to move the advantaged birds into their own digs and away from the riff raff around 4-5 weeks. once the males start chasing females and each other, the energy they take in is used towards other pursuits rather than gaining weight.

80g at 14 days is the first # I came up with for a standard, the updated # I shoot for is 84g=3 oz at 14 days. I have some birds from my first test hatch last weekend, only setting eggs from a few select birds that lay dark brown camo eggs at least 14grams. (<14 grams, and brown colored eggs are...

single yolks double yolkers

some of my current birds and their eggs now in the bator. Tatankas.