Will my quails start laying soon?

[lisameow]

I have two females and one male king quail. It's spring now but aren't laying? They aren't tame so do you think that maybe they aren't laying because whenever I change their food and water or bedding it disturbs them so muck that they won't lay?

 

[DK newbie]

How old are they, what do you feed them, how many hours of light do they get a day and how big is their enclosure?

 

[lisameow]

Hey sorry for not replying sooner... They just started laying i think the problem was that it just needed to heat up a bit more

 

[lomine]

Heat has nothing to do with egg laying. They don't start laying in the spring because it's getting warmer. It's because the days get longer. They need 14-16 hours of light a day to lay.

 

[eHuman]

A sudden extreme change in temperature up or down can cause stress leading to decreased egg production. But that would be the stress not the temperature that caused it.