Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

He's very interesting looking and I'm sure he's sweet! That's what's important. Our BR roo went after DBF the other night and poked his beak right through the water jug trying to get him. He's a MONSTER. So if Brutus is good around your little one, he's definitely a keeper!!!

I didn't know you had red clay in KY...

 

[shelleyd2008]

Oh he is just fine with my son, but he stays locked up cause he tries to beat up the other roos!! The first time I let him out, he was chasing a young cockerel around the yard forever!! This poor baby is maybe 3 months old! After the guinea ran the silkie off, he started fighting with my dutch roo!! He got locked back up real quick!

Edit: I think all the ground around here is clay of all different colors. What isn't black slate rock that is!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Well, Niki, it seems like you have abandoned me again!!

Ok back on topic!

I was adoring my A&M babies again

And I realized they are the same size as my pharoahs!! And they are only 3 weeks old! Will they keep growing till they are 6-8 weeks? Or will they slow down on their growth soon? I know you don't have any (or many) A&M's, but I figured they were about the same as the other types!

 

[monarc23]

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awh i didnt abandon ya for too long

hehe!

As for A & Ms technically they are to be on the jumbo side...BUT, the A & Ms I have (yep got em finnally last sat yay) are of varying size..however some are much younger than others....the one hen..."Big Bertha" MY GOSH....for a quail she is massive..she looks like a mini roaster chicken! HA HA! OKay taht's exaggerating but she is HUGE! I can't even hold herin one hand...i thought my golden male was huge..nope nothing compaired ot Big Bertha! LOL! She lays HUGE eggs too....biggest coturnix eggs ive ever seen! I adore her...shes' one i'll be sad when she passes...she's one i'll keep even after she stops producing fertile eggs shes' so cute and big she diserves pampering after she's done doing her duty.

My male A & M is tiny like a dove!?!?! He may be young....but his feathers look adult....he looks like a dove even Ha ha!

I think it all depends on who bred the strain that you got, and how selectively they bred. MY personal plans in the spring is be very selective aboutwaht i keep, color and size wise, my plan is to have all jumbos by summers end....jumbo tibetans (british range), Jumbo goldens, jumbo a & ms, jumbo tuxedos, jumbo browns you get the pic he he!

But as for your question, yes! LOL! Your jumbos wont be done growing until 8 weeks old.

That's why jumbos shouldnt be culled for meat until then because if you cull before that you'remissnig out on more meat growth.

I dont thnk your'e eating these but just using it as an example

 

[shelleyd2008]

No I probably won't eat any of them!! I might sell some so someone else can eat them, but as for me, I don't think I could kill and eat anything that I hatched myself!

 

[monarc23]

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I'm guilty of your above taboo!

However I grew up hunting, and my parents raised chickens that I named and were later culled while i was at school it was traumatizing for me (as they didnt tell me that's what they got them for i thought they were my pets) but i dunno something happened i grew up, and I'm just like my parents...NOW what's odd is my mom thinks im the cruelest person she knows when I say "i'll probably be culling that one because blah blah blah" LOL......and my fond memories of her hacking up defensless rat kits she found under the chicken coop where they just days before slaughtered my pets....i think my moms the pot calling the kettle black....

 

[shelleyd2008]

My dad always seemed like he would pick the ones that we had named out of all the rest to process for the family!! I am surprised I never went vegetarian!

Dad used to always hunt for rabbit and quail when I was younger. I have been told that rabbit was my fav, but I don't remember that. I do know that I stopped eating it once I found out what it was! I went for quite a while without eating anything that I didn't see before it was cooked. If it came out of a ziploc or white freezer paper, I wouldn't touch it!

Still about the only thing I will eat that doesn't come from a store is deer!

 

[monarc23]

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mmm venison!!!! I need more....can't wait to get one.....bucks here I come!!!

Still waiting on last years buck from the taxidermist..grrr!

I love farm raised rabbit, wild rabbit is too gamey for me.

Honestly after the traumatizing experience that my parents put me through with teh chickens, im surpised im not a veggie too! LOL! My favorite meat is chicken too lol!

 

[shelleyd2008]

Me too, but I like mine boneless, skinless, and deveined!!!

 

[monarc23]

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lol!