Coturnix Quail Basics- Information and Pictures Galore

[LadyHawkeAvry]

You should be ok a couple weeks, but be sure to make a screen lid. They start popping like popcorn, and will spring out of there! I like using tubs since they are very easy to disinfect between hatching & cleaning times. I just rotate to a clean tub, then clean out the one they were in.

I have found that a dozen can go for about 3 weeks in a large storage tub brooder. 2 dozen can only make it 2 weeks, and 3 dozen, just a week. I don't have a ton of space, so I use a single tub brooder. I do runs of 24, and keep them in the tub for two weeks while the next run incubates. Then I move that batch out, disinfect, and the tub is ready for the next run to hatch!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Cots are really robust if you are able to find the startina 30% protein or similar feed. I stumbled across a local store I had never thought to check. Had a pallet fulll!

I was about to break the bank buying it up but remembered it will loose its value sitting too long. I asked the manager and he raises pheasant and bobwhites. Now I know where to go

25 minute drive, just awesome.

 

[JJSS89]

Cots are really robust if you are able to find the startina 30% protein or similar feed. I stumbled across a local store I had never thought to check. Had a pallet fulll!

I was about to break the bank buying it up but remembered it will loose its value sitting too long. I asked the manager and he raises pheasant and bobwhites. Now I know where to go

25 minute drive, just awesome.

For young/laying quail I feed exclusively that 30% Purina feed. Does so well in creating good strong chicks.

 

[tysonphotos]

Is anyone near me? (South Florida east coast west palm beach area) that would want to trade a boy for a girl or let me come buy and pick up a few girls. I think when I bought my three baby quails two months ago they were boys! No eggs and I'm guessing that's why!!! Haha is there a way to sex them?

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

Is anyone near me? (South Florida east coast west palm beach area) that would want to trade a boy for a girl or let me come buy and pick up a few girls. I think when I bought my three baby quails two months ago they were boys! No eggs and I'm guessing that's why!!! Haha is there a way to sex them?

Vent sexing is the easiest way, especially when the birds are 8 weeks old and up. Males will have a small bump just inside the cloaca, and will produce a white foam when you invert the vent during the breeding season. Hens appear more folded, lack the bump, and never produce foam.

 

[dc3085]

Hens kept in a mixed coop with males, often produce foam. If they've been bred within the last 24 hours there will, many times, be foam in the vent of the hens as well, especially when there are multiple roos present. Vent sexing is a method you should double check until you have sufficient experience doing it.

 

[hosspak]

Hens kept in a mixed coop with males, often produce foam. If they've been bred within the last 24 hours there will, many times, be foam in the vent of the hens as well, especially when there are multiple roos present. Vent sexing is a method you should double check until you have sufficient experience doing it.

In addition, there is an obvious bulge behind the vent on the male and the vent area on a female will be flat.
Question: How long are the girls fertile after removing the roo?

 

[hosspak]

From the Crazy H-Bar Ranch and Hatchery;
The breeding project is well underway and we have a large surplus of separated eggs that won't fit into the incubator. So, since I don't want to get ANOTHER incubator (at this point) I'm looking for people who would be interested in these extra eggs to hatch... They are $3 a dozen for now, once I see what the fertility rate is and what colors I get from this project the prices may go up. All I want in return from the buyer is what the hatch rate was and what color patterns they get from the eggs. All eggs are numbered for the breeding groups. Thanks in advance for your help in my project.

Some pictures of the parents;

 

[LadyHawkeAvry]

From the Crazy H-Bar Ranch and Hatchery;
The breeding project is well underway and we have a large surplus of separated eggs that won't fit into the incubator. So, since I don't want to get ANOTHER incubator (at this point) I'm looking for people who would be interested in these extra eggs to hatch... They are $3 a dozen for now, once I see what the fertility rate is and what colors I get from this project the prices may go up. All I want in return from the buyer is what the hatch rate was and what color patterns they get from the eggs. All eggs are numbered for the breeding groups. Thanks in advance for your help in my project.

Some pictures of the parents;

I'd love some, and it will be a good infusion of new blood into my stock. I have incubator #1 held open for three sets of eggs that are due in this coming week, and have incubator #2 (my quail hatching workhorse) shut down briefly for maintenance and upgrades. Will you still have some that need hatching next week? I can pay ahead of time, but want to make sure I have my incubator back up and calibrated (I'm replacing the temperature control module) so that the eggs are not hanging out after shipping, which will artificially reduce your fertility rate, PM me!

 

[dc3085]

Fertility of a hen once bred will last at least 5-7 days and can often last as many 14.