Jumbo Coturnix weights

[Clays quails]

Good morning. I am new here and new to the quail world. Hoping these will be a good addition.

so I am sure this has been discussed over and over. I have searched and only found a couple threads with info on weekly weights as they grow. I am just really getting started with the quail and would like to know where I stand with the birds I currently have in the brooder. These were all hatched on 4-18-23. I am hoping to start breeding some of the largest females out of this group to a couple of large males I have from another blood line that are quite large I think. The big male in the group weighed 403g and I think the second weighed just under 400g.

Here are the weights for the 3 week old bird’s
Just wanting to see if I am on track with good weights for these.

Thanks
Any advice is welcome as I said I am just getting started with quail

 

[eddie_van_quailen]

I weighed my chicks every couple days the first few weeks I had them (part paranoia and part curiosity ). My biggest was 195g and my runt was 168g at 3 weeks. Hope that helps!

 

[Clays quails]

This is the first time I have weighed these. I was wanting to get a good idea as to how they are doing. what did your birds get to at full weight.

 

[eddie_van_quailen]

This is the first time I have weighed these. I was wanting to get a good idea as to how they are doing. what did your birds get to at full weight.

Sorry for the late response! They're just over 6 weeks old currently, so not quite yet fully grown, and I haven't weighed them in about 2 weeks. But on 4/29 (when they were ~4.5 weeks old) the smallest was 249g and the largest was 273g. I'll weigh them probably one more time when I move them from the grow-out box to the aviary, likely this weekend. If I do, I'll come back and let you know where they're at!

 

[Clays quails]

No worries. Thank you for updating. I'm going to try and do a weekly weighin until they are fully grown. I will keep updating as I go along to see what we end up at.

 

[Clays quails]

I weighed again on this Tuesday which was day 28. i had a lot of birds loose leg tags between week 3 and 4 so no weights by tag numbers this week. i had females ranging from 222g to 248g, with most being in the 220 to 230 range. males ranged from 204g to 243g, with most hanging around the 220 mark.

 

[eddie_van_quailen]

I weighed my largest female last week (right on her 8-week mark) and she was 303g