Artificial light

[QuailRaiser]

Hello! I am new to artificial lighting with poultry, i used to just have them lay normally. I started selling Coturnix last year and got a whole bunch of people who would like them this year. The only hitch is they would like their day-olds before march 20th. It's the 17th of February, would I have enough time to get them laying with artificial light (I started them yesterday) to have them ready by then?
Cheers,
Finn

 

[sniper338]

Id keep the light on 15 tp 16 hours to really push em... full spectrum bulbs/plant light turned mine on like a light switch.

 

[dc3085]

Hello! I am new to artificial lighting with poultry, i used to just have them lay normally. I started selling Coturnix last year and got a whole bunch of people who would like them this year. The only hitch is they would like their day-olds before march 20th. It's the 17th of February, would I have enough time to get them laying with artificial light (I started them yesterday) to have them ready by then?
Cheers,
Finn

Hard to say. Its going to take a minute for fertility to work itself out. I usually don't hatch the first week they lay. The only thing you can do is get them lit up ASAP and hope the fertility hooks up in time.

 

[TwoCrows]

Birds need to breed for at least 2 full weeks before you have good fertility. Before that, and you may only have a few hatch. So you are pushing the envelop here!

 

[QuailRaiser]

ok thank you!