jumbo quail

[shelleyd2008]

Nevermind, I'm not fully awake yet

 

[Rozzie]

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It's okay, I'm just getting there myself.

 

[JJMR794]

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You know I disagree, there is no way I wait 10 weeks for a 10 oz bird. Don't need to.

SORRY EDITH BUT THIS STATEMENT SHOWS YOUR INEXPERIENCE AS A LONG TERM BREEDER. FORGET WHAT THE BIRD WEIGHS AT 8WKS OLD, IN MOST CASES THEY WILL CONTINUE TO GET LARGER (ALBEIT AT A MUCH SLOWER RATE) FOR AS LONG AS 16 WKS OF AGE OR SO... DONT CONFUSE MARKET SLAUGHTER AGE WITH MAXIMUM SIZE- THEY ARE 2 VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.

 

[daseymay]

Since I am new to jumbos and know only what I have been reading, I am wondering if your chart should have your hens weight slightly more than your males on your weight chart???? Or could it be that this applies only to standard size quail?

 

[Rainwolf]

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If a size chart was made I think females would weigh a little more the males.
But at this time there is not standard in sizes unfortunately.

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Set date 9/19/2010, Hatch Date 10/7/2010 6 weeks 11/18/2010 Weighed tonight 11/21/2011. Sorry I have been busy setting up new breeder cages and moving birds around. This is one of my Jumbo Browns from my selected breeders from my first hatch. The eggs are from the breeders I choose from this hatch will be set for the 1/1/11 hatch. I do not set eggs that are from hens younger than 10 weeks, this is why I wanted to do a New Years hatch. You are right I don't have much experience raising Coturnix. But I do have at raising/breeding Sicilian Buttercups and NHR's. My family has breed NHR for generations.

Sorry its sideways, DH was having trouble with glare.

I posted a weight chart along time ago, and that started an impossible, its not real, never was , can't be.
Well it is. So while you are raising them, pay attention to the intsructions that came with the birds way back when. I did years ago. Do a search for Diamond Ranch and the Newletter out of A&M. It has instructions for breeding the Texas A&M's which were Jumbos.

They have to be bred not just raised. I keep saying it and no one listens because I am a newbie. Well so were you before you started breeding you had to learn how to raise them, but raising them is not breeding them. Don't forget, there are a lot of chicken breeders retiring now and of course the bird of choice now is the Coturnix because of its size. I told you before, they are going to be getting bigger.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Well said

 

[Robo]

Where did you get that scale? I want a new one for Christmas. Mine is goin kabonk.

 

[Stellar]

 

[Rozzie]

I "knew" I should have bought that little plastic hermit crab cage at the thrift shop yesterday! Darnit! No, I'm not going to go back and see if it's still there because I'll find other stuff to buy.