JUMBO COTURNIX - Selecting and Breeding for Weight

Selecting birds for a jumbo class coturnix quail breeding program. What my requirements are and my targeted weights.
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[@jer2079]

I can't thank you enough for the time you put into these videos, and answering questions. I've been watching yours, along with My Shire farm videos (loved the last one you did together) among others to start my own quail journey. I appreciate the open sourced information among the community. Again I thank you, your wife, sister and everyone involved. See ya tomorrow night.

[@CoturnixCorner]

Glad to help!

[@jecriggs]

love that little postal scale cage.

[@CoturnixCorner]

Thanks, it works great!

[@elizabethstephens6471]

This is a great reminder on why we are doing this labor of food! Thank you.

[@CoturnixCorner]

Absolutely!!

[@batunes9831]

Hey , i really love your videos, i bought some quail 3 weeks ago and you helped me 100% with them, love ya.

[@CoturnixCorner]

Thank you and good luck with your new birds!

[@jasonwalker7708]

I'm really going to enjoy watching your progress with this! This is WAY out of my league as of right now but it gives me something to build towards one day!

[@CoturnixCorner]

I'm looking forward to seeing the progress also. Stick with it, you'll catch on :)

[@josenogales3408]

Love the video. Great process.

[@CoturnixCorner]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@jeancooper7953]

Great info. Thank you so much

[@alejandrocastillo2355]

Hope to hear from u asap thank u very much very awesome videos

[@Aardpeertje]

Very interesting, learned new things

[@ronrobinson1799]

Hello from Australia, good video Terry. I will be breading primarily for meat & eggs, so this is timely.

[@CoturnixCorner]

Thank you

[@ljtminihomestead5839]

Good info!

[@steavanball4093]

Love the video content

[@elcavodelocho]

Nice video my friend 👍🏼

[@trichard5106]

Thanks !!

[@pedrolg]

Thanks for using the metric system, although I'm starting to get used to pounds and ounces 😁

[@CoturnixCorner]

:)

[@gaddivo]

Love your videos! Any progress on this project sir?

[@cockeyedhomestead]

We have found similar with our birds.

[@chrislecky710]

That book your reading would make good kindling ,,

[@stuartdial8408]

I love it. I am doing the same. I just can't get rid of my black ones from william foster. Every other quail is a jumbo. mixed white wing, english white, and standard brown.

[@CoturnixCorner]

Those blacks are really. nice

[@joeburns8354]

Awesome videos great knowledge helping me with mine. Where in Florida are you located looking to get some new birds added to mine

[@CoturnixCorner]

I'm located in Fort Myers

[@nickvanhooft6525]

Love your perspective on crossing in New lines on your jumbo quail. Surprised you're not doing colors. Crazy question has anybody done a feed efficiency on quail?

[@jeremyoliver6858]

Zack at my shire farms

[@jamesmoore8914]

Great information, can you tell me the size of your weighing cage, thanks

[@scottsquires1597]

What do you have for your latch system on your cages?

[@williamjenkins8566]

9 months later how close are you to 1 pound?

[@cttaylor01]

MY JMF (Southwest Game birds) wilds come this week. I am very interested in maintaining the gene pool and keeping weight up. I plan to run one covey for meat. Raise about 30 at a time and keep one roo and 5 hens as my matting pair. I will weigh them all at 6 weeks and consistently keep the biggest as my breeders. I think I can do 3 runs of quail each summer and only keep the pair over winter. Anything else you recommend for that size operation? How often should I order new eggs to keep the genetics fresh? I was thinking once ever 3-5 years would be sufficient.

[@SavageFamilyFarm]

Could you discuss how you husbantry your birds

[@jonleone777]

How do you fatten up the quail. I feed a high protein diet as well as supplement with veggies and mealworms and can't seem to get them where I want them at about 15oz.

[@mariehaugland9996]

What leg issue can they get in the future breeding if the bird is small?

[@riyadhmohammed1231]

wow your birds are larger than my jumbos! i have a question, i have 5 females and one of them is not laying because i usally have 3-4 eggs. so how can i know which quail hens are laying and which are not?

[@WhoisMichelleCollie]

Can you make a video on bone density on what to look for in the legs?

[@CoturnixCorner]

Will do

[@chiefkyle64]

Good information here. Where do you get the cage waste pans from? I'm just starting out and I will need some pans.

[@CoturnixCorner]

The trays can be found at most auto parts stores, they call them automotive drip pans.

[@ThirdTimeAroundRanch]

I would like to know how you are not covered in flies? I have to clean my poop trays daily or they are totally covered with flies

[@amosgreen4281]

Do you happen to have any documentation that states that these are domestic quail? I’m trying to prove that these fall under the poultry category.

[@saethman]

Interesting as always :) How high is the typical meat/live-weight? (i.e how much breast-meat will you get from a 350gr lady or 300gr roo?)

[@CoturnixCorner]

Sorry, I can't answer that, I haven't weighed after butchering. Will put that on the list.

[@katiecamp3566]

Hi Terry, I was wondering if you ever tried to raise chuckers? Are they more difficult to raise than quail?

[@CoturnixCorner]

I have not

[@jeffhill5391]

Interesting, my 3 week olds are 145 to 150 grams. My brought Goliath eggs are only 1 week old. Im hoping they are bigger.

[@Alexis_9339]

For the cage you’re using to weigh, did you just do hardware cloth j clipped together?

[@CoturnixCorner]

Exactly 😀

[@andrewmobley7595]

I have absolutely no problem with your methods but you are a brave man to say that you cull 3 week old chicks for not making weight 😂

[@CoturnixCorner]

Fair enough

[@charlesdang2557]

To each their own, for sure. I weighed my birds at 6 weeks and did the culling then, but I regretted doing it so late. I lost many birds due to fighting, which I attributed to the awakening of sexual maturity. I think Terry is on to something...

[@stevegraham4585]

For this selection what is the age?

[@shahzaibqasim5685]

.is it possible to breed my coturnix quail upto jumbos by breeding my biggest birds ?

[@daltongentry7596]

Did you ever get a one pound quail?

[@donaldwilson600]

Where are you located in Florida

[@mnibu007]

How much get Jumbo quail weight in KG?

[@mdabidabdullah513]

How can i get quile egg?

[@croatian_menace]

Hi, what is average butcher weight(grams) of your meat birds at 8 weeks or whenever you bztcher them usually and how much they eat to that point. Thanks!

[@ThatStevenLouis]

If he says "I'm looking for 300g males and 350g females at TEN weeks".........why are you even asking about their weights at 8 weeks? 🤔

[@vagusripple4819]

Do you sell processed birds for meat to the public/restaurants?

[@joseresendes3757]

Hey im interested in buying some eggs from u .do u sell eggs from your junbo quail?

[@jeremyweber1610]

Terry, will you be selling these eggs, I’m kinda just getting into it for meat and egg sustainability. Sure beats out rabbit days:) These bigger birds make perfect sense to me.

[@CoturnixCorner]

I will be shipping eggs later this month.

[@jeremyweber1610]

@@CoturnixCorner will you be posting it, or do you have a special webpage? I’ve learned a lot on your Chanel!

[@CoturnixCorner]

@@jeremyweber1610 I'll be posting to the CC FB group page.

[@rajriyaz9185]

How can i get this breed in india ?

[@babykraig]

Hey Terry don't know if I missed it, but how many females are in the top cage. I see that you placed 3 males in there to how many females?

[@CoturnixCorner]

15 hens

[@babykraig]

Thanks. What can be done to stop them from pecking each other? Sometimes they peck each other until blood draws... Like badly injured

[@charlesdang2557]

@@babykraig I had that problem for two reasons: too many males and too many birds in general in my cage. I distributed the males and culled the rest. Started with 1:3 M:F ratio, then moved to 1:5. That helped tremendously. Curiously enough, most of the injuries came from the larger hens pecking the lesser males. There is no magic formula for cage density. I just thinned down the numbers until the fighting stopped. I should have culled the lesser males at an early stage like Terry does. It helps cuts down on the fighting, saves money on feed and definitely saves your ears from having to hear a bunch of juvenile males crowing. Win/Win/Win.

[@babykraig]

​ @Charles Dang Thanks for that. My cage is 36"W X 24"D x 12"H and there are 5:1 f:m and they were pecking on one in particular. Well i separated the injured bird until it got better and placed it back in the cage a week ago and all seems to be going well so far. Do you think i can add six more birds to that sq footage, like another 6???

[@babykraig]

@@charlesdang2557 thanks

[@bahadurchauhanchauhan5341]

Sir I want to buy Jumbo Japanese coturnix quail....would you help me.....?

[@alexmendez865]

How many male for female?

[@pabloaguero7438]

Hi, I'm located locally and interested in buying some hatching eggs

[@mdtofazzalhossen2146]

I am speaking from Bangladesh. I want to take the fertile egg of jumbo quail after 500. Can you give it to me?

[@josesocarras4371]

I bought live chicks and they all died. Is it better to buy eggs to hatch? Where can I buy eggs?

[@charlesdang2557]

I only incubated one batch last year, so my advice is not to be trusted. However, I can say wholeheartedly that the relatively small cost in incubating and raising quail chicks is rewarded many-fold.

[@Alexis_9339]

He has a video on different companies. Southwest game birds, Kansas City quail, myshire farms are good options.

[@alejandrocastillo2355]

Hello good morning I wanted to purchase LIVE XL JUMBO PHAROH B1 from u I live in Compton California the biggest u have

[@flyingwild1053]

Hi all. I have a few quail males I want rid of. In a time like this, I am unable to take them to an auction. However I am uninterested in getting any money for them. I was first considering letting them go into the wild, but there are a lot of cats in my area so they would likely get killed. Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can do with these 4 males???

[@davecrowley2023]

Try Craigslist to give them away under their free stuff listing. Please don't let them loose. They will not survive.

[@flyingwild1053]

@@davecrowley2023 ok thank you.

[@andrewmobley7595]

Send them to the freezer camp. They are tastey birds.

[@yasmeenansari9899]

Pls talk to in Hindi, I am a indian

[@satyanarayanareddy4480]

It is fake no big quails

[@chrislecky710]

Selective breeding for weight?? ok I'm going to teach you the lesson my quail taught me last week...if you are selectively breeding for weight your quail should receive a limited restricted amount of food..... sounds counter intuitive but it's a fact, give what I'm saying some thought, if you still don't understand why this is the case message me...I'd rather you figured it out yourself instead of me sounding patronizing as I know you're an experienced breeder...... Honestly I can beyond any shadow of a doubt more than prove my point if it comes to that so please ask if needs must....That book your reading would make good kindling lmfao...I am a creative muse that has spent most of his adult life learning to see in ways most cannot.. You're not going to be able to highjack that by trying to suggest your steering me into those realizations just because you want me to be beholding to you...

[@mayaabueg9018]

Why

[@jillbarrett2576]

Terrible life for these caged birds.