- Jun 15, 2008
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I got my first egg today.
Unfortunately I can't find my camera. I'll post a pic when I do. My quail really don't seem that big though and these are supposedly jumbos. I guess they are close to 8weeks. I set one of the bigger ones on the scale and got slightly under 6oz. Not impressive. I have been feeding them lower protein food. I can only get 22% gamebird here and that's the highest of anything I've looked at. I did supplement with cat food when they were little but it's too expensive to feed nearly 100 quail cat food. They already go through a 50lb bag of game bird feed in about a week with the help of the buttons. Are they just a bit behind and will continue to grow or not? I wasn't planning to butcher until the end of May anyway but got my eggs early.