Can you tell the sex of my 20 day old Coturnix quail chicks by these feathers?

[Patiocoturnix]

I'm just starting. Just hatched my first 5 quail...in Santa Barbara. If you're still doing it...at some point I'd probably want to switch a male or 2 and get some different DNA in the mix. Right now they are 2 weeks old...so I don't know who is male or female yet. And I plan to breed them to raise quail for meat. Will need to switch out the breeding groups every couple years. Let me know if you wanna keep in touch.

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[Susan Skylark]

My first hatch of 5 birds I had 3 wild type and 2 pied wing white (can't feather sex) and all the brown ones were female at week 3. Then strangely they all became male at week 4! Watch out for those baby spots! The white one that started crowing at 3 weeks was obviously male, but it was a little jarring to know we have 4/5 male in that batch when we thought them all hens. Then my second batch I had 4 wild type and all 4 are female, go figure! I guess statistically it works out but it is weird to have it all one or the other in two batches. You'll figure it out, and then something will throw a wrench in what you thought you knew, but that's half the fun!