Tiny Cortinix Eggs

[Lynn Manes]

OMW,quail breeders, you have to see this. We've been successfully raising Cortinix quail since last winter. We keep our original quail that we purchased for breeding in 1 cage-1 male, now 4 females but only 3 of them are the original girls (aka the seniors); a pen of males we will process for the freezer (junior males from our incubation); & a pen of 9 females(junior girls we incubated,counting 2 white males and 3 white females we recently bought). All our females produce eggs-normal quail eggs. Except for 2 lately coming from our seniors like this teeny weeny one. These eggs are only about 1/2"long if that. I've yet to break one of them open to see if it looks like a real egg. Any comments on this?

 

[dc3085]

Its totally normal for any bird that has just begun or any bird that has stopped laying for any period of time and is starting again. When i replace all my breeding birds in the same month i get piles of odd sized and undersized eggs until their ovaducts get geared for normal production. Ive seen them with a shell be about twice the size of a pea all the way up to 25 gram double yolkers.

 

[Lynn Manes]

Its totally normal for any bird that has just begun or any bird that has stopped laying for any period of time and is starting again. When i replace all my breeding birds in the same month i get piles of odd sized and undersized eggs until their ovaducts get geared for normal production. Ive seen them with a shell be about twice the size of a pea all the way up to 25 gram double yolkers.

Thanks for your response. Seems odd though as I've only 4 females in that pen who have been producing regular size eggs all along. Oh well, guess it is what it is. We get more quail eggs than we can ever use anyway, so I'm thankful we have several quail egg customers who love our eggs

 

[Lynn Manes]

Thanks for your response. Seems odd though as I've only 4 females in that pen who have been producing regular size eggs all along. Oh well, guess it is what it is. We get more quail eggs than we can ever use anyway, so I'm thankful we have several quail egg customers who love our eggs

Thank you HugHess