Cortunix Quail help with gender?

[pinoyathletics]

3 and 4 definitely look like females to me, 1 and 2 are probably males, but the speckling on the throat of 1 makes me less sure of that one. These look like the golden/Italian coloring, so males should have the solid colored reddish breast, but I have had some males who were a lot lighter in color on the chest and were harder to tell for sure.
How do they behave towards each other? If the males are sexually mature they will try to mount the females by grabbing the feathers at the back of the head and standing on their back.
Sometimes just watching them can help determine whether male/female if the feather color is unreliable.

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Put Quail 1 in a separate cage, and laid an egg after a day. So def female.
2 def male, crowing, mounting females and super aggressive.
3,4 im sure females but need to test for eggs.

 

[pinoyathletics]

I have some 5 more quails that need gender identifying. They are almost 4 weeks old.
in order

Rosetta 135g
Silver Pharaoh 158g
Pharaoh 105g
Manchurian 100g
Pharaoh 88g

 

[le_bwah]

#1 and #4 you will likely have to wait and vent sex. Can't tell for the rest but that last one looks like a girl (spotty breast, no red). Within the next few weeks you should be able to sex them from behavior alone (boys crowing/mating, etc.).

 

[pinoyathletics]

The Rosetta one was a boy and so was the silver. The other 3 Manchurian and 2 browns are still unidentified. The Silver one after 8 weeks is now my biggest quail at 350 grams.

 

[pinoyathletics]

#1 male, crowed no eggs, mating with other birds
#2 male, as above
#3-5 not sure possibly female, no foam coming out, not mating when i put a female in with the 3 of them in the cage, however nearly 10 weeks and still not laying eggs.

 

[pinoyathletics]

#1 and #2 have foam and are crowing

 

[pinoyathletics]

anyone know whats going on 3 quails, not crowing, no foam but no eggs, nearly 10 weeks old. I already have 3 additional roosters seperated off in another cage for the bbq.

 

[AlderCreekFarms]

Sorry, I'm no help on this one, but I'm following because I'd like to know too. Is something stressing them out?

 

[AlderCreekFarms]

...I went back through and re read all your posts for other clues...earlier I think, you said you had some that started at 10 weeks, is that right? If so they may be very close to starting to lay...

 

[Sara L]

How much light are they getting? I think they need to get 12-14 hours to lay.