what is the absolute largest quail?

[AK_Button_Mama]

I want to get some BIG quail... what is the LARGEST quail that I can get? I have coturnix and want chuckar but those are not quail... anyway I am rambling!!! sorry!!! any help would be appreciated!

 

[monarc23]

Butler Bobwhites are supposedly pretty big?

or jumbo coturnix (if you can find someone that breeds them as big as they were meant to be *an lb*). I think my 12 oz hen is huge, so I can only imagine what a lber looks like! LOL!

 

[AK_Button_Mama]

so how do you breed for jumbos? just breed the larger birds only?

 

[monarc23]

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That's probably how they were started out is by breeding the largest of the pharoahs to the largest of the pharoahs until they made a distinct larger sized coturnix. Jumbos lay exceptionably bigger eggs than the pharoah coturnix, and have a big more breast meat

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Most breeders don't selectively breed their coturnix, or their jumbos, so that causes various sizes of jumbos, from small jumbos that barely look any different from a normal pharoah coturnix to the ones that are completley bigger than the pharoahs even at hatching. I think if you want to find a breeder that only breeds for pretty good sized jumbos try to find someone who selectively breeds for larger birds. I plan to but right now I have a mixture of both normal sized coturnix and jumbos....my goals is to breed every color to jumbo size.

I like those huge eggs that are almost banty sized too much not to LOL

 

[SamG347]

just breed the larger birds only?

NOOOOOOO

I learned from the head poultry prof. down at Texas A&M that in order to get larger birds you dont always use the biggest. You want to look for things like length and width of breast.....and overall body. You want a good plump bird but doesn't always mean the biggest of the group.