Japanese Jumbo Quail Question (First Timer)

[Habibs Hens]

I am thinking of getting some Japanese Jumbo Quail Eggs and am a bit confused


Courtnix are 18 day incubation
Bobwhites are 23 days
and Chinese pained 16 days


what are Japanese Jumbo?

Thanks

I really need an answer asap as I already bidded on the eggs

 

[danielatc81]

Jumbo Coturnix/Japanese/Pharaoh Quail are just larger eggs. The species/breed is no different, just the "cream of the crop", so to speak. Ideally, breeders withhold the largest eggs to breed from so that you have larger stock. This is great for those that are raising the quail for meat/eggs.

Incubation - 18-19 days

Just had my first hatch a couple weeks ago. They grow FAST so I now have a 3-step brooding system. Incubator to small plastic bin (non-slip lined) brooder, on to the larger pine filled plastic bin, followed by the final wired cage -- hopefully by week 4.

 

[Habibs Hens]

I didn't realise the same breed had so many names

didn't win the Jumbo I originally bid on but won another auction of 48 mixed eggs

Japanese, Golden Jumbo, Italian and English

Will they also be same 18ish days



Thanks for your help guys

 

[James the Bald]

I didn't realise the same breed had so many names

didn't win the Jumbo I originally bid on but won another auction of 48 mixed eggs

Japanese, Golden Jumbo, Italian and English

Will they also be same 18ish days



Thanks for your help guys

Yes, they will be around 18 days.

 

[swords75xlh]

the japanese are not the jumbo the americans are

 

[swords75xlh]

there are about 80 breeds of cortnix quail

 

[James the Bald]

there are about 80 breeds of cortnix quail

Interesting. My guess would have been around 25. Here is a book that talks about most of them. The author states that no one knows for sure how many breeds and sub-species of quail exist. I can go with 80.

 

[Habibs Hens]

WoW thanks for that

btw I was going by what the seller named them as

im new to quails