If you are working on building a bigger Coturnix let us know!

[aprophet]

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bigger birds is kina one of my goals it sounds like I am trying the same base stock you are . hopefuly next week I will be incubating some coturnix eggs got the frankin bator working . got my permit for Bobs last week I picked up a coupla pair of Jumbo Bobs this weekend. I am not sure which ones are purring but it is kina cute , they are kina spazzy though LOL

 

[Byrdj]

I weighed all my six week old quail today and an A & M hen weighed 11 ounces. Hopefully she has another couple of weeks of growing to do. She lays the largest egg I've ever seen also. I figure she will be a good start. The regular browns at the same age weighed between 5 and 6 ounces. I just hatched some jumbo goldens yesterday and am going to selectively breed them also. I'd like to hear what other people are doing.

 

[Overeasyplz]

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Awesome! I haven't tried to weigh any of mine yet, they are just 3.2 weeks old jumbo cots but there are quite a few chunky butts

I just pinioned them and am trying not to look at them too much so they heal up. I lost a little golden to the pinioning sadly, but he probably wouldn't have made the cut anyway.

 

[tony30536]

no 16oz yet more eggs on the way , i have a few young a&m put all but the biggest in the freezer found a egg in the pen i need to get the weight on them 2 or 3 of them are a lot bigger than the others

 

[JJMR794]

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I have a few coturnix now, i moved everybody a week ago and now they're making me pay for it! LOL --- For the record, coturnix love sameness and consistancy!!! I seperated everybody out into color pens and upset the apple cart! I'm sure they will kick into full stride again soon, but for now i am only getting a few eggs a day. If you want a small number pm me. Otherwise it'll likely be a week or 2 before the girls get over their hissy fit!

 

[JJMR794]

WAIT! Is this another "GREAT WHITE QUAIL" string???

 

[JJMR794]

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Heated Mason jar?

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i have some small Golden's now(a quad) ill be setting and selecting for the largest on them... tho if i can find some one that has ones that are a lot bigger i would buy some eggs and go from there... im getting 50 jumbo brown's and 50 A&M's eggs in 2 weeks... the guy im getting them from says that the jumbo's are much bigger than the A&M's are but has not weighed them... but im going to breed them up to get as big as i can get them

 

[JJMR794]

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Sounds like they are English whites, not a&m's....

 

[worldling]

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I have a few coturnix now, i moved everybody a week ago and now they're making me pay for it! LOL --- For the record, coturnix love sameness and consistancy!!! I seperated everybody out into color pens and upset the apple cart! I'm sure they will kick into full stride again soon, but for now i am only getting a few eggs a day. If you want a small number pm me. Otherwise it'll likely be a week or 2 before the girls get over their hissy fit!

Coturnix are lovers of perpetual SAMENESS! Not so boring, is way to much excitement for them.

Change anything...I mean anything, and they will make you pay.

LOL