Quick Quail Question

[americanchicks]

Hi all. Ended up buying some quail eggs from an auction. I now have 17 healthy 3 week old quail. As a new to quail I have a question about their verity. I'm pretty positive the are coturnix because of the way they look and the eggs they came from. I am wondering if they are standard or jumbo. Some of the quail are quite a bit smaller than the others. I know that males are a little smaller than females but as you can see from this picture there's quite a bit a size difference. Some of the eggs were smaller than the others as well.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

I could be entirely wrong but I think the best way to tell a jumbo variety from a standard variety is in their adult weight and their egg weight? I think jumbos are around 12-14oz as adults

 

[shrimpsilkies]

The big one looks to be a jumbo at that size. Females can be larger but not always, especially when jumbos are mixed into standard sized breeding flocks. If you have a mix of colors (one of the lower blurry chicks look silver to me) then some of them are not likely to be jumbo.

 

[Quail 66]

Not an expert, but there seems to be a great difference. Mine are jumbo and usually are a bit smaller or the same size, but only when they are chicks. Never the less, I hope you enjoy your new birds.