tell me about the jumbo browns

[countryguy1982]

Hi everyone.. New to the forum.but I've been using backyard chickens for most of my ideas on pens, quail etc....so here's what I've got going on....about 3 months ago , I decided to give quail a try.I bought some Tibetan color phase eggs online..my first try at incubators. Out of 30 eggs ..I got 28 to hatch with a styro still air ..the first one that hatched..I made a pet..I wanted to see if I could tame it...she tamed out real well. Built her a nice cage... Etc..cause it was so small I figured it was a male...he turned out to be a she...in the last month , she has laid an egg a day...the others...took me forever to sex...mainly crowing n I'd catch one and band him...I thinned them down to 4 roosters and 15 hens, no eggs, still..no predators.. I keep live traps out...I've changed food,tried calcium, etc..there happy as can be.they just hit 12 weeks old. In the meantime...a nearby friend is also getting into quail....around the same time I did..so I gave him my roosters and he gave me 3 pair of 5 week old jumbo browns...they are now 6 weeks old..crowing...and hens are spitting out 1-2 eggs each a day..already...cage is right next to the Tibetans, set up exactly the same, on the same food...what gives? I'm stumped....so I'm gonna make the switch to the browns...plus they are so much bigger n easier to sex....what do I need to know about these??? Any major difference over the others?

 

[dc3085]

Hi everyone.. New to the forum.but I've been using backyard chickens for most of my ideas on pens, quail etc....so here's what I've got going on....about 3 months ago , I decided to give quail a try.I bought some Tibetan color phase eggs online..my first try at incubators. Out of 30 eggs ..I got 28 to hatch with a styro still air ..the first one that hatched..I made a pet..I wanted to see if I could tame it...she tamed out real well. Built her a nice cage... Etc..cause it was so small I figured it was a male...he turned out to be a she...in the last month , she has laid an egg a day...the others...took me forever to sex...mainly crowing n I'd catch one and band him...I thinned them down to 4 roosters and 15 hens, no eggs, still..no predators.. I keep live traps out...I've changed food,tried calcium, etc..there happy as can be.they just hit 12 weeks old. In the meantime...a nearby friend is also getting into quail....around the same time I did..so I gave him my roosters and he gave me 3 pair of 5 week old jumbo browns...they are now 6 weeks old..crowing...and hens are spitting out 1-2 eggs each a day..already...cage is right next to the Tibetans, set up exactly the same, on the same food...what gives? I'm stumped....so I'm gonna make the switch to the browns...plus they are so much bigger n easier to sex....what do I need to know about these??? Any major difference over the others?

All coturnix are the same, the only difference is which ones autosex by feather and not.

You'll get a lot more eggs if you only have one rooster in each cage. The roosters over-breed them and the stress reduces thrift. Also at some point the roosters will go ted bundy on each other, sometimes it takes em a year sometimes they'll do it a few weeks in.

Calcium and crappy food are not what makes coturnix stop laying. Stress makes coturnix not lay, 99% of them time when they stop or don't start youll find stress was the reason.

Feed 26-30% protein Game bird feed or turkey starter. That's all they need, nothing else, it's a fully formulated diet. If you feed them seeds or treats or anything they need grit or they can't digest it. The game bird feed is water soluble so they only need to drink to digest it.

The jumbo browns you get will be bigger but don't buy into people telling you about 16oz quail at 8 weeks, those are extremely rare. They'll be in the 12-14 ounce range for the most part some less some more but they aren't hulks or anything they're probably only about 10-15% larger than your birds now. If you like the tibetan color you can breed a lot of size into tibetans with a little effort. I had a line that was regularly 10-12 ounces before I sold it off.