Still no eggs:(

[beepbeepinajeep]

Our A&Ms are 8 weeks old and our coturnix are almost 6 weeks old. I am ready to find an egg

I know I have some hens from the coloring on the coturnix.

 

[citalk2much]

Someday soon you will find a eggs waiting for you. Unless all your A&M are all boys then it will be a couple weeks for the coturnix to start laying

 

[shelleyd2008]

For me, it seems like the smaller variations start laying earlier, around 6-8 weeks, so your A&Ms could be all males unless you have vent sexed them. But they can take up to 12 weeks to start laying.

My jumbo browns didn't start laying till they were about 10 weeks old though, so you have a while to wait on them.

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

Would that many males be getting along? We have 5 a&m 9 coturnix (one flew out when we were transferring them to the big cage) & 1 button. They all get along perfectly so far as we can tell.

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

I had my first egg Do coturnix and A&M eggs look the same? I know the button eggs I hatched looked different than the coturnix.... or are A&Ms just a coturnix variation?

 

[citalk2much]

To me they look the same

 

[shelleyd2008]

A&M are just a dfferent type of coturnix, the eggs will look the same

Congrats!!

 

[beepbeepinajeep]

Thanks We also got our first blue egg from our chickens today too It was so neat to see it there with a dark brown and light pinkish egg! This is all so much fun... worth the hard work. My sister had homegrown chicken eggs last week for the first time and she said she thought she put too much butter in them They just taste totally different.