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[joe125]

The norm is about 4 weeks on coturnix roos, but you can get some early and late bloomers. I try not to anthropomorphize animals, but everyone knows a boy that had 5 o'clock shadow in the 8th grade. That's your 3 week old coturnix crowing roo. It just happens sometimes. You know...the kid you always want on "Your team" in the 8th grade, when the gym coaches were lazy, and decided "Dodge Ball" was the game of the day....I digress.

Coturnix roos mature (sexually) about twice as fast as hens. 4 weeks for roos 8 for hens. It's just how it is, and they require the same light conditions as hens (14)+ hours a day to get their "grove" on. Maybe you had some XLD(?) strain?
They were designed to attain sexual maturity, later than most other strains. On a side note: Never mix, in the same batch an XLD strain with any other strain of the same age. I learned that lesson the hard way!

 

[Rozzie]

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Let's see... XLD are jumbos, right? I don't have jumbos, so that shouldn't be it. It may be due to a lower protein food. The best I could get with that batch was 24% protein. This batch that I have now (different lineage) may also mature at that rate, we'll see, as they were just switched to 30% since I have only now been able to get hold of some.

I don't mind the extra week(s) to maturity, though.

 

[Fat Daddy]

I have seen the term "beer sexing" before but don't know the meaning. Could someone enlighten me before the imagination runs wild? Thanks, Bill

 

[peewee]

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That is where you sit back in a lawn chair with a beer (or other drink) in one hand and a bunch of zip ties in the other and watch for the little bugger that crows.

 

[Fat Daddy]

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That is where you sit back in a lawn chair with a beer (or other drink) in one hand and a bunch of zip ties in the other and watch for the little bugger that crows.

Oh, well I'm good at that... I was think'in the quail got the beer.

Thanks for the input. Bill

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

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That is where you sit back in a lawn chair with a beer (or other drink) in one hand and a bunch of zip ties in the other and watch for the little bugger that crows.

Oh, well I'm good at that... I was think'in the quail got the beer.

Thanks for the input. Bill

*horrified look

It's for your consumption!

 

[mhwc56]

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That is where you sit back in a lawn chair with a beer (or other drink) in one hand and a bunch of zip ties in the other and watch for the little bugger that crows.

Oh, well I'm good at that... I was think'in the quail got the beer.

Thanks for the input. Bill

HOWEVER i'm wondering if my mean,nasty E.Ws would like to chug a couple cool ones and CHILL OUT! ....? i could spike their water dishes....

 

[peewee]

You can send them down to me if you want to!!

 

[Rozzie]

hmmm. Could give some beer to the roos. They might take five minutes off crowing.

Oh, wait. That isn't how it works. They'd crow all the louder, at least til they past out drunk...

 

[Robo]

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That is where you sit back in a lawn chair with a beer (or other drink) in one hand and a bunch of zip ties in the other and watch for the little bugger that crows.

Oh, well I'm good at that... I was think'in the quail got the beer.

Thanks for the input. Bill

I can see it now........ Coturnix quail getting high on a case of Samuel Adams and then running down the street squawking. I bet that would make the news.