Small eggs??

[Northwest_Wannabe]

Where are you located? lots of farms will ship hatching eggs!!

 

[Nabiki]

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.

One thing you can do is start selecting only the largest eggs to hatch. If you keep doing that, eventually you will get birds that lay larger eggs. If you only keep the largest birds, you will also start getting bigger birds.

 

[Quailophilic]

One thing you can do is start selecting only the largest eggs to hatch. If you keep doing that, eventually you will get birds that lay larger eggs. If you only keep the largest birds, you will also start getting bigger birds.

Yessss!!! Thats what I am thinking of

 

[Quailophilic]

Where are you located? lots of farms will ship hatching eggs!!

I am from Pakistan

 

[Quailophilic]

One thing you can do is start selecting only the largest eggs to hatch. If you keep doing that, eventually you will get birds that lay larger eggs. If you only keep the largest birds, you will also start getting bigger birds.

From the last hatch, 4 chicks are from my most productive hen(that died). She was also bigger in size with more than 250grams in weight. So i am now waiting for them to become hens to start laying. And then I will think of hatching their eggs.

 

[Flockincrazy]

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.

What kind of quail do you have my eggs are tiny mine are speckled itialian they fall through 1x1in welded wire fencing

 

[Flockincrazy]

This is one of my eggs

 

[Ratchnick]

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.

How did you get an 18 gram egg in the carton? I need some big cartons like that!

 

[Quailophilic]

This is one of my eggs

The bigger egg

The smaller egg

Compared

 

[Flockincrazy]

The bigger egg
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The smaller egg
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Compared
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Some birds have big eggs some have small its just like humans some have big babies some have small all my eggs are the size of your smaller one