Sexing Quail

Tensing · Post: # 41950Post **Tensing** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:16 pm

Can anybody help me sex my quail, they are 5 weeks old now.

I have uploaded pictures of them on to my blog http://hatchingeggsandchicks.blogspot.com/

The Chili Monster · Thu Nov 23, 2006 12:49 am

I want one

Tensing · Post: # 41959Post **Tensing** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 7:59 am

They are very sweet, and according to a website I looked at yesterday, just the right age for the table.

red · Post: # 41962Post **red** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 10:57 am

are you raising them for the table?

what are quail like to keep? are they noisy?

Camile · Post: # 41965Post **Camile** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 11:09 am

Hi,

Is it 5 weeks to have them on the table ? not bad at all !

And I think they start laying at 8 weeks don't they ?

Camile

Tensing · Post: # 42006Post **Tensing** » Thu Nov 23, 2006 2:34 pm

Camile wrote:Hi,

Is it 5 weeks to have them on the table ? not bad at all !

And I think they start laying at 8 weeks don't they ?

Camile

Some start at 6 weeks supposedly. They do mature amazingly fast.

red wrote:are you raising them for the table?

what are quail like to keep? are they noisy?

No, we are raising them for eggs, and really just as an experiement for the incubator.

They are great to keep, not really noisey, they were at first, but after about 3 weeks they were much more quiet.

the.fee.fairy · Sat Nov 25, 2006 10:12 pm

i had quails for a while.

I never could sex them. I was told that the wayto do it is to look at their chests, the females are less speckled than the males. Note, thats less speckled...they all have speckles. Apparently the female is more proper speckles, whilst the male is more stripyish.

I know that doesn't help too much, but its all i know!