Jumbo Coturnix Quail - Learn Me A Few Things

[MissPrissy]

30%?? My turkey feed is only 20% too. I bought 100 lbs for $20 this morning because I thought is was a better deal than 20% gamebird at $26 for 100lbs. For my turkeys. Not quail.

 

[Mrs MIA]

A 50# bag of feed is $20 here...

 

[Oblio13]

According to Dictionary.com:

kuh-tur-niks

 

[Wolf-Kim]

A 50lb bag here is around $15. That's pretty much the same for layer or chick. Then at a feedstore a little further away sells the Gamebird for $14. While TSC sells their Dumor for $13 for chick and $15-18 for layer.

When the turkeys were younger they got straight 30% but now we tend to mix it with Dumor chick.

Next batch of quail, I'll split them up and feed one Dumor Chick and the other Gamebird and watch for a difference. We feed them 30% right now and the couple we got our eggs from thought they looked a week older than they really were. But like I said, since we didn't have a control group I cannot say the extra protein made a difference or not.

If I remember to split them up and experiment, I'll be sure to post the results.

-Kim

 

[MissPrissy]

I don't have a quail egg turner. I know they are too small for a chicken eggs turner. I do have a goose egg turner. Goose eggs lay on their side and rock back and forth. If I secure them so they don't roll they should do fine in the goose egg turner laid on their side - yes??

 

[Mrs MIA]

Hmmm... any chance you have a quail egg carton you can cut in strips and place in the turner? That might work.

 

[MissPrissy]

Not unless Sam sends them in cartons. I do not intend to hand turn! I will figure this out.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

What kind of incubator do you use for your chickens?

Someone on BYC mentioned that there are rings in the bottoms of their incubator's chicken egg turner that a quail egg will settle into. They were not designed intentionall for this, but the person said that it worked well for them. Maybe a close examination of your chicken egg turner will show a way that may work.

I think that as long as you could find a way to secure them from rattling too badly, your goose turner would work. I wonder if you could just pack enough of them onto each row of the goose turner that they would secure themselves?

-Kim

 

[MissPrissy]

That is what I was thinking, Kim. Or using a piece of pulp tray to take up the extra room.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I don't own any automatic turners yet. I turn by hand and when I hatched quail, we had near 100 eggs! LOL

I dutifully turned each individual egg gingerly twice a day.....

Yeah, that lasted for about half a week!! Then I just used my hands and rolled the whole batch in a clumsy swirling motion. HAHA!

I'm working on converting a refridgerator into an incubator and there will be a GQF auto turner in there! No more handturning for this chick.

-Kim