maturing coturnix

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Update, one week later, several males are now crowing, but still no eggs. Just one or two in the A&Ms. I may not have many hens in the A&Ms. So far I have banded 18 cocks out of 38 birds and several that are left are small bird so I am afraid they are cocks. In the other batch that are not A&Ms I have at least 16 hens and so far not one egg.

 

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Another update, finally the last batch of hens have started to lay. These are very large birds, even larger than the A&Ms that started laying as of the last post. Size is the only factor different, so I am Assuming that's the deciding factor. I have decided these will be my meat type birds, I'll just have to keep in mind that replacement breeders will take much longer to mature.