Head Count

While cleaning out the quail this afternoon, I decided to do a head count -

so I've got -

30 Mixed Jap's
05 Jap 3wk old Chicks
12 Mini Jap 3wk old Chicks
20 CPQ (I let another one escape today)
10 CPQ 3wk old Chicks

Total - 77 Quail.

How many quail do you al have?

Suz

Mmmmmmmmm let me see now.......................... eight!!

Miss counted the CPQ's chicks 11 not 10

Total 78

same as harrie 8 ! my last hatch of italian jumbos as you all know was very rocky only 3 out of 11 not very good but have 60 more of mixed varities on the way (fingers crossed)

Hi,

I've only just got quail this year.

Pen 1. Japanese 16f/4m
Pen 2. Japanese 11f/2m

Brooder 1. Japanese 9
Chinese 14

Brooder 2. Japanese 22.

Total number, Japanese 64, Chinese 14.

I've got 70 Japanese and 56 Chinese eggs in an Octagon 40.

Derek.

It really is like some sort of addiction for me Derek , It's amazes me how quickly I accumulated so many birds, I only started incubating in May '07 -

In the incubator today 24 Jumbo Jap's & 47 Red Breasted CPQ - If successful this will need to be the last for a while (honestly )

Can you inc these tog - do they hatch at the same time or do you put some in a few days later?? I was thinking of popping some quail eggs in with chicken eggs a few days later but not sure if this would work? Actually the chickens might think the quails are a nice little snack. Maybe not a good idea.

CPQ's take 16 - 17 days & Jap's 17 -18 days, I've found when incubating them together they seem to hatch together, by the time the last CPQ are popping out the Jap's have started.

I don't know if its always the case but I noticed that my quail chicks were on the go causing chaos in the incubator quicker than little chook, so I'd be me worried about for my chickens lol

Hi,

You can incubate diffent species of bird eggs together, but you must remeber that quail hatch earlier than chickens.17/18 for quail, and 20/21 for chickens.You could put the quail eggs in three days later and they all hatch out together.

I would not brood them together though, poultry chicks are much larger than quail chicks, there is a tendency of the quail chicks being hurt. Anther reason, every batch of quails I've hatched have alway feather plucked each other, and you don't want this trait to pass over into chickens. Derek.

Bringing the thread back on topic - Head count so far-

Suz - Quail Total 78 - Egg Total - 71
Harrie - Quail Total 8 - Egg Total - ?
Phill - Quail Total 8 - Egg Total - 60
Ironsun - Quail Total 78 - Egg Total - 126

Just 26 for me!

.

LOL - I was just asking out of nosiness - I'm an inquisitive paranoid , conspiracy theorist