Quail - "Expected" weight by age (days)

[als77]

So my 11 Coturnix Quails are now between 3 days (and 5.5 hours) and 4 days (and 7.25 hours) old.
They weigh between 10 and 18 grams, with an average of 13.7 grams.

Does anyone have any records of what they "should" weight now and going forward?

The eggs themselves were 10-14 grams, but mainly 12-13 grams (slightly more 13 than 12).
So might have been a mix of jumbo and standard?

 

[Jack3291]

Well I have only raised buttons but from my experience, for the first few days they barley grow in weight and some even weighed less then when in the egg. On around day 5-6 after hatching, they started putting on around 1 gram per day, but because yours are Coturnixes they will prob grow faster. Hope this helps!

 

[als77]

I've tried to gather from various threads I found here (plus an article that was linked). Here are the results (days -> grams), but there might be a mix of some people measuring from hatch date and others from when they added them in the brooder, but still;

1) A&Ms (standard?)
1 -> 10,4
3 -> 13
5 -> 18
7 -> 20
9 -> 25,8
12 -> 37,8
14 -> 54,4
17 -> 78,4
19 -> 88,7
21 ->108,2

2) 23% crude protein feed (standard?)
1 -> 7,9-8,3
14 -> 55,8-64,7
21 -> 103,7-116,0
28 -> 143,4-155,0
35 -> 183,4-194,2
42 -> 202,7-211,0

3a) standard
7-9 -> 30/35/38
9-11 -> 36/47/49
11-13 -> 40/58/60

3b) Jumbo
7-9 -> 47,25
9-11 -> 61,45
11-13 -> 73,75

4a) standard
14a -> 63,7875
14b -> 49,6125
28 -> 191,3625

4b) jumbo
14 ->92,1375


Links
1) https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/quail-weight-gain-over-time-and-related-questions.770018/
2) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1eed/e82d278164e6eb6c6343e2c8a2b338678bd8.pdf
3) same as 1
4) https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/coturnix-quail-chick-weight.179092/

 

[als77]

If I remember I will update when I have a "full" set of numbers (at age 2-3 weeks). My scale isn't very accurate (1g increments, and is a bit tricky), but here's my first numbers;

3 days = 10-18, average 13.7 grams.
4 days = 11-20, average 15.3 grams (11.3% growth last day, incl two with no growth)
5 days = 12-23, average 17.6 grams (15.5% growth last day, incl one with no growth)

PS. I count days from when I put them in the brooder, and I am being generous with them by rounding down (the first 7 were put in the brooder 18 hours before weighing time so they are 6 hours short of being a day older than what I state, while the last 4 is somewhere around weighing time +/- some hours)
PPS. I don't really know the protein-content of the feed... I bought it from the breeder, and it was the only feed he sold for quail. I fear it is a little low on protein as a starter, so I mix 5-10% (closer to 5%) of my dogs food with it since it is high in protein (30%). It is however also very high in fat (14%), hence closer to 5% than 10%.

 

[als77]

Three weeks (in the brooder) today, and final daily weighing. Turned out my protein was very low (15% before the dog food "treat"), so the first two weeks they had 16% protein, before I bought some protein-heavy cat-food (40%) that I mixed in (1/3rd) giving them 23% protein for the last week. Here are my results in grams;

EDIT; sorry about the "," instead of "." - that's how we do it in my home country...

Age (days) - in brooder	3-3,75	4-4,75	5-5,75	6-6,75	7-7,75	8-8,75	9-9,75	10-10,75	11-11,75	12-12,75	13-13,75	14-14,75	15-15,75	16-16,75	17-17,75	18-18,75	19-19,75	20-20,75	21-21,75
Tibetan/Tuxido (Rosetta?)	12	12	13	13	14	15	15	16	18	19	20	21	24	27	28	32	36	41	46
Tibetan/Tuxido (Rosetta?)	14	15	18	21	23	24	26	27	29	30	34	35	39	43	46	49	53	59	62
Pharaoh (wild)	12	15	18	20	24	25	27	28	32	35	37	41	46	50	55	60	64	71	76
Pharaoh (wild)	15	15	20	22	26	27	32	32	37	40	43	46	53	58	62	68	75	81	87
Italian/Golden	11	14	14	16	18	21	23	25	28	30	33	37	42	45	49	54	60	68	72
Italian/Golden	16	18	20	21	22	24	28	29	33	37	40	44	49	52	53	60	67	71	78
Italian/Golden	17	19	21	21	23	26	28	31	34	37	41	46	50	54	58	66	71	80	85
Italian/Golden	18	20	23	27	32	34	36	39	43	45	49	54	56	61	66	70	77	83	90
White	12	14	17	19	21	21	22	25	28	29	33	35	39	42	46	51	56	61	68
White	14	15	18	21	25	28	32	35	38	41	46	50	58	64	69	76	84	92	99
Texas A&M	10	11	12	14	15	16	18	19	21	23	25	27	32	34	36	39	42	50	54
Average weight (grams)	13,7	15,3	17,6	19,5	22,1	23,7	26,1	27,8	31,0	33,3	36,5	39,6	44,4	48,2	51,6	56,8	62,3	68,8	74,3
Av weight gain last day (%)		11,3​	15,5​	10,8​	13,0​	7,4​	10,0​	6,6​	11,4​	7,3​	9,6​	8,7​	11,9​	8,6​	7,2​	10,0​	9,6​	10,5​	7,9​
Av weight gain last day (grams)		1,55	2,36	1,91	2,55	1,64	2,36	1,73	3,18	2,27	3,18	3,18	4,73	3,82	3,45	5,18	5,45	6,55	5,45
Min	10​	11​	12​	13​	14​	15​	15​	16​	18​	19​	20​	21​	24​	27​	28​	32​	36​	41​	46​
Max	18​	20​	23​	27​	32​	34​	36​	39​	43​	45​	49​	54​	58​	64​	69​	76​	84​	92​	99​
Max/min (%)	180​	182​	192​	208​	229​	227​	240​	244​	239​	237​	245​	257​	242​	237​	246​	238​	233​	224​	215​