How About a Jumbo Co Op

[RiverOtter]

Ok, call me Ahab, how do I join?
Buttercup Chillin, how much were you selling eggs for?

I had gotten a few quail to see if I liked them and I really, really did but never got around to getting more. Finally I put my trio into my rabbit colony where they lived happily for months until my kitten got in there

Anyway, this past week I got a great deal on some cages and loan of an incubator for indefinitely and I really miss hearing those quail. If I'm going to raise some, I may as well strive for the impossible while I'm at it

Everybody needs a hobby.
Hey! They don't even have to be white! In fact, who's got the biggest golds 'cause I think they're purty.

Now, I've read on here a lot that if you want really big quail there's a special way to raise them - what is it? Can I just ask, or do I need to know the secret handshake?

 

[Rozzie]

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Well, gee. Can't pull the wool over your eyes. OK then, $898.98 per egg, but we'll reduce the BYC discount to 5%....

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

I am giving 24 Jumbo Brown eggs to 12 people. Preferably in various parts of the US. The only requirement is you have to want them, and PM me. That is what the little numbers at end of my message is about. I have 5 right now that are not reserved. This is a one time offer. I will not be doing it again and I will not be selling eggs later either.

I can't join this Jumbo CO-OP but I thought I could give you some to have a good start.

I have to get NPIP certificate to send them out of state. I can't do that until after the new year, so its reservations only at this time. Once I get my NPIP I will PM the ones that reserved. My birds are a good size and they have potential. Depending on how they are raised. The eggs come with Jumbo Coturnix raising instructions.

However, they have been mixed and you may find yourself with Jumbo Browns, Jumbo Manchurian Golds that aren't as big and they may throw some whites that are even smaller. If you get enough you can breed them back to each other and get bigger white birds.

I have no idea what the hatching rate will be when shipped. Because of the Golds and the whites, your hatch rate will not be great. The J Browns have no problem hatching though.


12-7=5 available, cut off for reserving these eggs is Dec 31,2010. I edited this date. I am not waiting a whole year to get rid of some eggs. THink of all the eggs I would have to figure a way to send Rozzie. Just to make sure she got females.

 

[rjs55555]

If I only had cages!

I wont be ready for quail for about 2 more months! Maybe I could buy a few eggs from the next generation more improved Moby quail then from someone ;-)

 

[Omniskies]

Well, gee. Can't pull the wool over your eyes. OK then, $898.98 per egg, but we'll reduce the BYC discount to 5%....

That seems like a far better deal than some outrageous $900 per egg and a 10% discount. Who would pay $900 for an egg?

RiverOtter, how to raise the Moby Quail is something we're all trying to piece together. So it will be a lot of trial and error. I'm sure there's a lot of information out there about it right now, but the consensus seems to be that the Moby Quail is a work of fiction, ergo the methods used to achieve the Moby Quail are probably false, as well.

I could have swore that I heard somewhere that quail grow a lot better when they have a set amount of light and darkness. The downside with winter hatches is that your quail will have varying degrees of light 24/7 because of the heat lamp. However, I'm still planning on shelling out the money to get a plant grow light to see if maybe having their own personal sun will help boost the growth rate.

The downside here is that anything you use to make the quail bigger won't necessarily affect its offspring. Just because I feed my quail a 48% protein and have them under $500 sun lights to make them 3lbs doesn't mean that their babies will grow larger - or that someone else would get a 3lb bird out of the eggs if they didn't use the exact methods I used.

So I think the goal here is to have a quail that grows to be a pound without having to do anything too outrageous. It's a moot point if we get to the 16oz mark, sell the eggs, and everyone who buys the eggs only gets 12oz quail because they raised them on regular lighting and gamebird starter.​

 

[diggypaws]

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I started the thread, for people who do want to try to grow them as large as possible, with some questions to answer about finding honest egg sources, the best methods for feeding, lighting, selection for breeding stock, how to avoid inbreeding.

If no one knows of an official size chart, maybe we can vote or something to come up with a standard for ours, at least, if not the world at large.

I'm a slow typist, and don't have much computer time or skills, except pretty good with Excel, so if anyone has any good ideas or lots of time to organize things, I would love to have help with that.

I think the quail chariot issue has been solved, but I think you are the first to bring up a secret handshake - any ideas

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

The quail chariot's been solved - I was going to try making a little cardboard one for them. Oh well.

12 -9=3 available

 

[diggypaws]

I meant the imaginary chariot in Rozzie and Omniskies discussion about how "A&Ms will be paltry shadows when placed beside my behemouths. My quail will gobble down other strains whole then after the feast be hitched up to my carriage so that I can be whisked away to work every morning.

Provided Moby Quail aren't too fat and lazy to be cart trained. I figure if I dangle food in front of them I'll be able to get them to take me anywhere."

After Rozzie offered her some eggs for $899.98 per egg, she decided that "That is awfully tempting. After all, who wouldn't want 16oz Buttons?

I accept your offer. But considering the sensitive nature of expensive eggs and the cold weather, I must ask that they are hand delivered in a climate controled case that has a combination lock only the two of us know (bonus points if you arrive via quail chariot).

After all, I wouldn't want anyone swapping the eggs mid-trip."

So I thought they might want to add in the secret handshake as an extra precaution.

Now, if you're going to make an actual cardboard chariot to hitch to an actual quail, I hope we get a picture

 

[RiverOtter]

Well, if this is going to be a co-operative effort, why don't we all weigh our quail at a set age, 6 weeks?, and run a percentage chart on sizes? Top 10% weight range would be Giant, next 20% range called Jumbo, Mid 40% range Standard and bottom 30% Pharoah.
Would something like that work?

 

[kingmt]

WoW

This thread is full of a bunch of

grumpy butts.

Have fun with the Mobyquail. If you make it happen I may buy some of your stock when they are for sale. I never weighed any of mine but the stock that came from Nicky (I think she went by Monarc) was twice as big as the stock I have now. So good luck on your project.