How to Vent Sex Coturnix

[monarc23]

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[Kecene]

Great info, Thanks

 

[CheerfulChaos]

Monarch23,
I've come to the conclusion that I'm just a total failure when it comes to vent sexing!

I have one quail out of our five that we bought from the local feed store that is still a mystery. Two are crowing and two are laying eggs, but the last one doesn't do anything. DH and I tried vent sexing all of them, even the ones we knew the sex of and still got one of the females wrong! I'm having a hard time discerning the "shiny round bump" that you talk about in your first post vs. the very last picture of the female coturnix chick where the vent isn't opened up all the way. Sorry, but they don't look much different to me. We didn't have any problem getting the male adults to "foam", but what about mature birds that aren't quite to that point? We still can't tell them apart from the mature females that haven't started laying yet.

 

[monarc23]

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thing i've noticed is birds are easier to sex as chicks than as adults and ifyour birds are crowing i'd consider them adults already.

I agree it's hard to tell the differnce on some but some are very easy. I have no idea or no explaination as to why some dont look right either way. However I think it's jus tlike how in hatcheries they have expert vent sexers sexing the chicks, yet....still many people get extra roos when they required NO roos. I thikn some it's just very hard to tell LOL!

 

[CheerfulChaos]

Thanks, that makes me feel a little better. I guess we'll just wait and see on our mystery quail, though I know it's older than 8 weeks old and should be doing something by now. I have 51 Jumbo brown coturnix in the bator right now that should hatch at the end of this week. I ordered browns out of self-defense, so I could just sex them by their breast feathers.

Since I will be selling off to the feed store any excess quail that I hatch, the faster I can choose the ones I'm keeping for breeding, the faster I can get rid of the others and not have to pay for as much food.

 

[monarc23]

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LOL smart move!!! I take it this mystery quail is a browntoo? I have TWO that are like that! Tho i am sure now that they are hens. They are 4 + months old and should start laying soon if i m correct. The annoying things not only have speckled chests they also have RUST in their chests! HOw rude huh! LOL!

 

[98 gt]

im reporting this as offensive...

 

[monarc23]

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[CheerfulChaos]

nope. Our mystery quail is a tibetan. I only have one of the wild colored coturnix and he crows up a storm, so no doubts about his sex. All the others are either tibetan or tuxedo.
4 + MONTHS! Or did you mean 4 + weeks? If my mystery quail makes it to 3 months with no action he/she/it is going into the stew pot!

Although, I have to admit that this "late maturity" thing seems to happen a lot around here. Several of my chickens have been late to mature and my last one just started laying on Sunday at over 8 months.

I kept chanting "stew pot" and "freeloader" at her, so maybe it worked finally. Hey, maybe that would work for the quail.

 

[monarc23]

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I knew that four months was going to throw you i should have explained lol! They were hatched last year, didnt mature until october so they were already out of breeding season so this spring will be thier first ever crowing and laying

awh you got a tibeee

My tibes are VERY eager to crow, so im betting you you got a hen there

lmao maybe it would