Quail Matrity Times?

[Peep-Chicken]

When do the different types of quail mature(eggs/breeding)?

I like snowflake quail but they don't mature as fast as coturnix. What else is out there?

Thanks!

edit: sorry, messed up the title. Should say Maturity.

 

[dc3085]

Coturnix and buttons mature at 8 weeks. Every other type of domestically kept quail matures around 30 weeks and only lays eggs during its breeding season.

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Coturnix and buttons mature at 8 weeks. Every other type of domestically kept quail matures around 30 weeks and only lays eggs during its breeding season.

Thanks! When is the breeding season? In spring I assume.

 

[dc3085]

May to August

 

[Peep-Chicken]

May to August

Okay thanks!

 

[drewskimac]

Coturnix and buttons mature at 8 weeks. Every other type of domestically kept quail matures around 30 weeks and only lays eggs during its breeding season.

Agreed

 

[Peep-Chicken]

So all coturnix(even the colored James Marie) mature at 8 weeks?

 

[dc3085]

Sometimes you'll get some eggs at six or seven weeks but they don't actually reach maturity until 8 weeks and with some lines of bird it's closer to 12. That's already 3-6 months faster than most chicken breeds or really any other bird, isn't that soon enough?

 

[Peep-Chicken]

Sometimes you'll get some eggs at six or seven weeks but they don't actually reach maturity until 8 weeks and with some lines of bird it's closer to 12. That's already 3-6 months faster than most chicken breeds or really any other bird, isn't that soon enough?

It is. I was just curious.

Thank you.