I'm guessing I won't see eggs till spring from my coturnix then?

[Emilys3guppies]

My 6 girls are 9 and 10 weeks old now and not an egg to be seen. Their diet is good, enough protein and calcium. They seem to be really happy...nobody picking on anyone else or anything like that.

But I just checked the sunrise/sunset times for my area and we're only getting 12hours of daylight now. That means no eggs till spring, right?

Thanks,
Emily

 

[chickabator]

mine started laying at 5 1/2 weeks I am still getting around 40 eggs a day from my girls we are getting around 11 1/2 hours of daylight here in the mountains of Ky it gets daylight about 7:30 and dark around & 7 so you should be getting eggs. I have jumbo browns .

 

[pringle]

hmmmm what type of quail you have?How many?

 

[Emilys3guppies]

They are jumbo brown coturnix. There are 6 hens in the hutch.

 

[pringle]

hmmmm I really dunno I hope someone with more expeirence will ansewr this.

 

[Emilys3guppies]

If it helps: I'm giving them boiled egg...all crushed up with the shell once a week, along with various greens throughout the week that they seem to enjoy. They are on turkey starter that is 26% protein.

I bought them two weeks ago...do you think that the move would disrupt them this long?

 

[pringle]

Im thinking that the move is the thing that distrupted them.who dod you get the quail from?

 

[Emilys3guppies]

Quote:
I bought them from a woman who had an ad on kijiji. Her setup was really nice...just kept a hundred or so of them as a hobby. Clean, painted and all the birds are really friendly. She had 50 young hens she was selling and I bought 6 of them. We drove them 2.5 hours home though.

 

[pringle]

You think she maybe lied about the hens age?

 

[Kullas]

i think i read somewhere that jumbo takes a little longer maybe 12 weeks