Jumbo Coturnix Quail - Learn Me A Few Things

[Oblio13]

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Until you guys sort this out, I'm going with: jap-uh-neez

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Until you guys sort this out, I'm going with: jap-uh-neez

I just call them "Browns" - hubby knows what I mean.

 

[MissPrissy]

I just say quail.

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

Chukars are great birds! Never ate any but raised them. And at the time got too attached to them to eat them lol. I had no luck with my valley quail and a warning: Avoid Dumor 24% quail starter. I'm not sure if it was a bad batch or just too much protein for quail chicks but after a few days of use my chicks started dying. And Saturday I found 20 dead and took them off the 24% and put them on 20% and saw immediate results. I have yet to have anymore deaths now I got them off the quail starter.

8-10 oz? Is that live or dressed weight? Some jumbos can get 16-20 oz dressed weight.

 

[Mrs MIA]

Miss P... here's a couple of sites I've bookmarked. I'm sure there are others, but it's a start.
http://www.lakecumberlandgamebirds.com/Pharoah XLD1 Quail_3.htm

http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1981-09-01/Coturniz-Quail.aspx

ACE! OMG... I'm so sorry! Usually they say to start them at 25-30% protein, too, so that shouldn't have been it... maybe it was a bad bag. :aww that's a lot of quail to lose all at once...

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

Yeah, I lost all my cali valley and 20 of my corturnix and I was scared I would lose them all but soon as I got them off the starter things turned around. Luckily I have 60 left more than enough to sale some to make up for the losses. And still have enough to breed for the colors I want. I just feel I let the ones that died down.

As far as pronouncing when I looked about most sites have it being pronounced as: ku-tûr'niks after the males call.

Feather Fancier
Infoplease.com
Superquail

 

[MissPrissy]

I can only get 20% game bird feed. Will that be okay?

 

[Ace_king_brahma]

20% will be fine. I raised all of mine on it except this last batch but they are on 20% now.

 

[Mrs MIA]

That's all I can find here, too.
I hear they like meal-worms, though, so I may treat them with that soon as I can find them.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I call them "quail" most of the time too, but "Japanese" would be easy too. I've always said "Co-turn-icks" just because I have never spoke to someone about them, I've always read it. LOL As long as we all know what we're talking about the same thing, we're all good.

I have mine on Gamebird Starter which is 30%. Just because we feed our turkeys the same stuff. It is only a dollar more at a local feedstore, than the chick-starter at TSC. We don't have too much variety on food around here.

-Kim