9 1/2 week coturnix quails, no eggs?

[Verna Y]

@Kiki would you believe that one of the boys that are almost 2 weeks old was trying to crow today? LOL.

 

[Rooapalooza]

Boy on front right.

What makes you say that? It looks like a girl to me since the chest is not solid.

 

[Verna Y]

What makes you say that? It looks like a girl to me since the chest is not solid.

Notice the red streaks? The chest does not have a lot of speckles. Males can have some, but with the red streaks, that calls out Roo.

 

[Kiki]

What makes you say that? It looks like a girl to me since the chest is not solid.

It doesn't have to be solid.

 

[Nabiki]

I'm not 100% certain that one is a roo. It has the facial markings of a hen. See the double-stripe running down the cheeks? That's one of the ways I tell my pansy fee hens since their breasts don't give a clue on gender.

In this picture, a hen is circled in green, and a roo in red.

 

[Kiki]

I'm not 100% certain that one is a roo. It has the facial markings of a hen. See the double-stripe running down the cheeks? That's one of the ways I tell my pansy fee hens since their breasts don't give a clue on gender.
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In this picture, a hen is circled in green, and a roo in red.
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Bee do you notice the red in his head compared to the no red in hers?

 

[Nabiki]

Bee do you notice the red in his head compared to the no red in hers?

Yeah. I'm still learning, so every bit of comparison helps.

 

[Cazook]

Here's some pictures -


Quail 1






Quail 2




Quail 3





Quail 4

 

[quailheart]

I don't have any experience with coturnix quail so I couldn't tell you their genders, but when I hatched my bobwhites they were supposed to start laying at 22 weeks (which I know is very different from coturnix) and it took them almost a year longer to start laying. I have no idea why it took them so long, but I was VERY surprised when I saw an egg in their cage. But my bobwhites also don't lay in the winter, they start laying during mating season and continue through the summer and they stop laying when their chicks would be fully grown (around September) I love my bobwhites because it is so easy to know what gender they are because the males look completely different from females. Anyways, I hope you figure everything out! And I'm sure not all of your quail are males

 

[Cazook]

I don't have any experience with coturnix quail so I couldn't tell you their genders, but when I hatched my bobwhites they were supposed to start laying at 22 weeks (which I know is very different from coturnix) and it took them almost a year longer to start laying. I have no idea why it took them so long, but I was VERY surprised when I saw an egg in their cage. But my bobwhites also don't lay in the winter, they start laying during mating season and continue through the summer and they stop laying when their chicks would be fully grown (around September) I love my bobwhites because it is so easy to know what gender they are because the males look completely different from females. Anyways, I hope you figure everything out! And I'm sure not all of your quail are males

Haha, hopefully! A year and a half before laying seems like a long time! Do Bobwhite quails live a lot longer than coturnix? I don't know much about them.