Beginning to lay-what's normal?

[KGQuail24]

I have 6 8-week-old Coturnix hens who started laying this week. I've had them for 4 weeks, in their current outdoor enclosure for 3 weeks.
Day 1, 2 eggs.
Day 2, 1 egg
Day 3, 0
Day 4, 2 eggs
Day 5, 0.
Is this pretty normal? How long does it take to get into a rhythm of being daily layers? I don't mean to sound impatient, but as a new owner I don't have any reference for how the onset of laying goes. I don't know why they wouldn't be happy and healthy enough to lay. We had a bit of a chasing around/bullying issue going on which I posted separately about but it's improved some. Nobody is being relentlessly harassed, no injuries, just social pecking order stuff, I believe.
It's June and warm where I am, with plenty of day light, they have good feed with over 20% protein and 3% calcium.
Looking for shared experience stories with girls starting up laying.

 

[cherrynberry]

I have 6 8-week-old Coturnix hens who started laying this week. I've had them for 4 weeks, in their current outdoor enclosure for 3 weeks.
Day 1, 2 eggs.
Day 2, 1 egg
Day 3, 0
Day 4, 2 eggs
Day 5, 0.
Is this pretty normal? How long does it take to get into a rhythm of being daily layers? I don't mean to sound impatient, but as a new owner I don't have any reference for how the onset of laying goes. I don't know why they wouldn't be happy and healthy enough to lay. We had a bit of a chasing around/bullying issue going on which I posted separately about but it's improved some. Nobody is being relentlessly harassed, no injuries, just social pecking order stuff, I believe.
It's June and warm where I am, with plenty of day light, they have good feed with over 20% protein and 3% calcium.
Looking for shared experience stories with girls starting up laying.

I would like to know as well! We just got our first quail egg yesterday and they were 9-10 weeks old, so it seems yours started to lay earlier than mine in general...

 

[Birdie mom]

Hello! I'm more of a chicken lady, but it sounds ok to me! As for how long it takes for them to get into the laying rhythm, I looked it up, and it said that quail's are most productive from 2 months old and on, so I would assume that would mean... if my math is correct... a few weeks????

 

[Nabiki]

It takes two to three weeks to settle into their mature laying habits. You may find some tiny eggs, some huge eggs, some with weird shapes or weird colours until they settle in too.

 

[KGQuail24]

It takes two to three weeks to settle into their mature laying habits. You may find some tiny eggs, some huge eggs, some with weird shapes or weird colours until they settle in too.

Ok, Thanks! I'll try to be patient with the sporadic eggs for a while

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

Just went through this with some young birds. I started to get 8 eggs daily, but different colors. One day I'd get 3 blue and 5 speckled, the next day 5 blue and 3 speckled.

I was seriously beginning to wonder whether I should ask the crazy question of whether a bird could lay both normal and blue eggs. (Eventually the birds settled on 3 blue and 5 speckled. I'll never know what really went on. I'm pretty sure I checked thoroughly daily to collect all of them.)