Small eggs??

[Quailophilic]

When i see photos and videos of quail_people, i always notice that the eggs their quails lay are very big. I have quails, too. And my quails lay very small eggs that weigh 9±2grams. One of my quails lays bigger eggs that are 14±2grams. But they still look small. I have them on layer diet with 18-20% protein and also i give them broiler starter feed that has 22-24% protein. And the bigger_egg_layer hen lays 4-5 eggs a week. While the smaller_egg_layer hen lays daily. Is egg size a Genetic thing?? Have my quails got really bad genes.? Or the feed i give them is not sufficient? They roam free which means they also get extra protein from bugs and ants. They eat grass too, and also some veggies scrap, which means they are getting enough nutrients. But what may be the problem? Please anyone explain.

And obviously the chicks that hatch out of small eggs will be small. I have recently hatched eggs, and the chicks are very small as compared to those on the videos,etc.
Please any expert let me know the main problem with small eggs.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

A lot of people farm jumbo quail, any chance that the videos and eggs you're seeing are of Jumbo's while you have normal sized quail?

 

[Kale the Quail]

My eggs are around that weight and 14 grams is a lot for my eggs. Most of the time it's 11-12 grams

 

[Quailophilic]

A lot of people farm jumbo quail, any chance that the videos and eggs you're seeing are of Jumbo's while you have normal sized quail?

My quails are not Jumbo but they weigh more than 200 grams.

 

[Quailophilic]

My eggs are around that weight and 14 grams is a lot for my eggs. Most of the time it's 11-12 grams

It takes 7-8 eggs to make a breakfast size omlet.☹ And i have to wait for 3 days to get that much eggs. My most productive hen died recently due to unknown reason so i have none productive hens left. Only one lays daily and egg is almost 9 grams.

 

[muddy75]

When i see photos and videos of quail_people, i always notice that the eggs their quails lay are very big. I have quails, too. And my quails lay very small eggs that weigh 9±2grams. One of my quails lays bigger eggs that are 14±2grams. But they still look small. I have them on layer diet with 18-20% protein and also i give them broiler starter feed that has 22-24% protein. And the bigger_egg_layer hen lays 4-5 eggs a week. While the smaller_egg_layer hen lays daily. Is egg size a Genetic thing?? Have my quails got really bad genes.? Or the feed i give them is not sufficient? They roam free which means they also get extra protein from bugs and ants. They eat grass too, and also some veggies scrap, which means they are getting enough nutrients. But what may be the problem? Please anyone explain.

And obviously the chicks that hatch out of small eggs will be small. I have recently hatched eggs, and the chicks are very small as compared to those on the videos,etc.
Please any expert let me know the main problem with small eggs.

I ran a test last year weighing over 100 eggs as I was packaging them. I have a variety of colors/sizes of quail and egg weight varied from 9g-18g with most being in the 10-14 range. yours sound completely normal.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

How old are your quail? I believe they're most productive between 2-3 months and 9-10 months, so they may also be slowing down naturally

 

[Quailophilic]

How old are your quail? I believe they're most productive between 2-3 months and 9-10 months, so they may also be slowing down naturally

They may be less than 6 months old. They've been laying for two months and i have them for 4 months.

 

[Northwest_Wannabe]

Your quail sound like standard quail laying standard small quail eggs, if I were you I'd invest in some hatching eggs/adults/chicks of some Jumbo Coturnix! They are larger birds (10-14oz I believe) and lay bigger eggs, and hatch bigger chicks.

I believe what you've seen online are Jumbo's since they're so commonly kept it doesn't seem like a big difference but in person and seeing it in pictures can be really crazy! Here's a pic I have that I got from online/Google of I believe a Jumbo male and a Standard male-

 

[Quailophilic]

if I were you I'd invest in some hatching eggs/adults/chicks of some Jumbo Coturnix!

Yes, i would invest but here, where I live, people donot know that quails can also be kept for eggs, and even the shop from where i got mine, the shopkeeper didn't know that they lay eggs like chickens do. People only know that they are for eating, and a variety of colours and sizes are not available here because people are not interested at all. Finding a jumbo coturnix seems to be a difficult task. Quail farming is not very common here.