all who are hatching quail

[IcyOldHen]

I am looking at eggs from James Marie farm and another large farm in california ( I found them on eBay but don't know the name only the email).
I feed purina game bird startena for the first 7 weeks then the purina game bird Layena. No meds at all, elevated cages with wire bottoms for 80% of the cage, solid ends. Breed colony style with 2 dozen hens to 6 Roos in 12'L x 3.5'W x 2'T cages. A feeder in each end free choice and use low pressure watering drink cups. I'll make sure and keep some weight records when I hatch at the XL jumbos and keep y'all posted on how they do.

Sounds similar to my set up, although mine are in cages of 1 roo to 4-6 hens.

I haven't trying the game bird layena I'm going to have to ask my feed store about it. Now I'm feeding a mix of GB Startena, Flock Raiser & Layena after they start laying.

I have a colony of meal worms just starting to get big enough to feed & a colony of dubia that I typically only feed sparingly to the chicks. Otherwise my chicks get GB Startena. I start adding the pelleted Flock Raiser when they're about to point of lay just to get them used to pellets. But now that I have a huge dust bath I'm putting them in weekly they're wasting a lot less food so I may just switch to all crumbles.

I've been grilling my feed store about feed options for the adults, wonder why they've never suggested the GB Layena! Although it's possible they have and I decided against it as it wasn't available in pellets.

 

[Momhunter]

Sounds similar to my set up, although mine are in cages of 1 roo to 4-6 hens.

I haven't trying the game bird layena I'm going to have to ask my feed store about it. Now I'm feeding a mix of GB Startena, Flock Raiser & Layena after they start laying.

I have a colony of meal worms just starting to get big enough to feed & a colony of dubia that I typically only feed sparingly to the chicks. Otherwise my chicks get GB Startena. I start adding the pelleted Flock Raiser when they're about to point of lay just to get them used to pellets. But now that I have a huge dust bath I'm putting them in weekly they're wasting a lot less food so I may just switch to all crumbles.

I've been grilling my feed store about feed options for the adults, wonder why they've never suggested the GB Layena! Although it's possible they have and I decided against it as it wasn't available in pellets.

I use all crumbles and keep pans of sand in for dust baths. My chickens clean up any feed that falls through the wire. I feed fresh treats from my garden and mealworms.

 

[DHinton]

I am looking at eggs from James Marie farm and another large farm in california ( I found them on eBay but don't know the name only the email).
I feed purina game bird startena for the first 7 weeks then the purina game bird Layena. No meds at all, elevated cages with wire bottoms for 80% of the cage, solid ends. Breed colony style with 2 dozen hens to 6 Roos in 12'L x 3.5'W x 2'T cages. A feeder in each end free choice and use low pressure watering drink cups. I'll make sure and keep some weight records when I hatch at the XL jumbos and keep y'all posted on how they do.

This is similar to how my small colony is, except, they also get black soldier fly larvae. Born on June 11, several of them recently had a growth spurt. I'll have to try to weigh one later. They also have a lot of sand, for baths, playing, and apparently laying. 80% of the time they lay in one corner.

We have 7 live, one that died after two days, and two eggs that may not have been fertile, from our first ten.
We are mixing Italian with pharaohs, two males, 8 females. Their pen is 6x4x3 with underneath the pen for them to roam as well.

 

[Momhunter]

I use the game bird startena and Layena on my quail, peafowl and turkeys. Easy to use the same feed on the three of them during the respective seasons. Then I use flock raiser for the chicken chicks, poults and adult peafowl when not in breeding season. High omega layer pellets for the laying chickens.

 

[Reedgirl20]

I am looking at eggs from James Marie farm and another large farm in california ( I found them on eBay but don't know the name only the email).
I feed purina game bird startena for the first 7 weeks then the purina game bird Layena. No meds at all, elevated cages with wire bottoms for 80% of the cage, solid ends. Breed colony style with 2 dozen hens to 6 Roos in 12'L x 3.5'W x 2'T cages. A feeder in each end free choice and use low pressure watering drink cups. I'll make sure and keep some weight records when I hatch at the XL jumbos and keep y'all posted on how they do.

I currently have both the James Marie jumbos and the California breeder from eBay chicks hatched as of now. I am keeping weight records on all 40 chicks from both hatches and posting results on this forum. If you do go with them would be very interested to see what your results are as well. I also feed the Startena free choice.

 

[Momhunter]

Great I'll keep watch on your postings. Hope they turn out truly jumbo I'm going to be out of town the middle of sept. so I'm not going to do anything until after that.

 

[Momhunter]

I'm wondering what most of you sell your coturnix hatching eggs for? I'm selling for $3/dz and am wondering if that is to cheap. Usually don't sell a lot because I either incubate or we eat them, but last night I had a guy order 100. Am I to cheap??

 

[beakmaster]

So he got 100 for $36? Sounds about right.... on ebay prices fluctuate but right now you can get 100 coturnix for $20+16.50 shipping, and another for 35 including shipment. I am sure prices fluctuate from place to place but for me if you don't have to ship them thats great!

 

[Momhunter]

100/12=8.33333 x $3 = $25.00 for 100 picked up at my house.

 

[IcyOldHen]

100/12=8.33333 x $3 = $25.00 for 100 picked up at my house.

I'm potentially planning to be in your area in a couple of weeks and would love to pick up 100 eggs if you have any available from your JMF quail by then!