no eggs

[Little_Bigfoot]

wo things, if you first got them and they were laying good then stopped it could be from diffrent nutrition from food they may have been getting great feed and then slumped down to gbs (what are you feeding them by the way) and then another thing that may have effected it may be heat, they may have gone from artificial lighting/ heat to a less warm inviroment and lastly once those two thing have been corrected give them a nice clean pen and a sand box as well as a place to hide my quail often times stop laying when they decide their pen is to dirty or if they arent safe SO PRE-MADONNA.

 

[joe125]

You can move the pen to face...Wherever.
If they are bobs, then I don't know what to tell you...If they are coturnix, then...Egg eaters are few and far between, and can be cured by trimming their beaks just below their skulls.

Other than that. I don't know what to tell you.

 

[Hoppelchen]

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Hmm... I first had only 3 eggs a day (from 8 mixed Jumbo coturnix breeders, (I think 2 are male, but it's hard to sex them) and thought that perhaps what I thought was female isn't (I've mixed quail, PITA and I'm changing to golden jumbos!) then I switched from turkey grower to layers mash as the company didn't sell TG that time of year and added oyster grid. They started laying 6 eggs per day, so I suspected the feed for initial bad egg performance.

Also I have two distinct batches hatched from those two time periods: hatch 1 with 3 eggs per day collected for 10 days: 18 hatched. After food change hatch 2: 6 eggs per day, set 46: 17 hatched.

Then I finally removed the spare roos from the same room(in another cage), and introduced the next set of teenagers (17) in that very cage and then the breeders stopped laying. So far, I'm back to 2-3 eggs a day after a few days of no eggs at all.

Going to check for an egg eater (just in case I got 'lucky') -- but if it's the disruption, how long will this last?

Hoppelchen