Hi Friends
I hv 2 male Japanese Quails & 3 females, but non of them hv started laying. i m having them since 3 weeks, how long will they take to settle n start laying eggs?
i hv kept them in good condition & provide them Quail feed.
One male lives with one female & other male lives with two females in different cages.
one thing i noticed is when male tries to mate, females runaway & try to protect themselves.
Regards
AHMED
Hi Ahmed,
Female Japanese quail can start to lay from 6-8 weeks onwards.
Depending on the climate and time of your and where the quail are housed will also affect laying. I am in the UK and my quail are in an aviaey which is located outside and the sides of the aviary are wire so the quail can see natural daylight and natural temperatures which affect their laying season. My quail stop laying around Sepember/October and start to lay as Spring appraoches from February, March April time.
Hope they start to lay soon.
Kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends
hello again Ahmed, I think your winters are similar to ours here in Britian so like Saras quail they may not lay eggs now until the spring
I have found this artical for you, it says to help them to lay eggs they need lots of daylight hours
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/607/raising-japanese-quail
how are your ducks doing now
Hi - I loce it when people add to posts that I have missed as it gives me a good read without having to wait!!
I was saying on FB that our quails now over 9 weeks have not tarted to lay and it is SPRING... we dont know the person we got the eggs from (was an internet thing) maybe they are imbred... would this stop them laying...? :(
Sal reading the link I put on for Ahmed, that can be a cause for not laying yes, but you are also in the very early days of spring so it may be a matter of just wait and see
Yeah i guess - or maybe they are just lazy ;)
Hi All,
Like Sara my quail are in an outside run and are very daylight hour dependant on laying. Mine stopped mid October and will not start again until Spring. I did find with mine this year that while they were on Finch Food the eggs were very intermittent but when I put them on the Quail Layer pellets the eggs went up to 12 a day so food is a big factor as well.
Hope the laying starts soon!!
One thing to be careful off is the ratio of males to females. 2 males to 3 females is not good. You need 1 male to 4/6 females as otherwise the females get fed up with being harrassed by the males so you may need to get more girls!!!
Sallie.
Hello Everyone,
Thanks a lot for your response. As mentioned in my earlier post, i hv kept 2 females with 1 male & one female with one male.
My other Pair (1:1) has laid an egg today!! :D
I have not touched the egg yet, should i separate the egg? will she hatch her eggs?
& M40Mo I live in Karachi city, the weather here is usually very hot! I have given my ducks to my friend who has many :)
i read the article, its very helpful, Thanks for sharing! :)
hi Ahmed its not about the heat more the day light hours but quail very rarley hatch their own eggs, normally they are put under a chicken or into an incubator, sorry you parted with your ducks
Hi Ahmed and Mo,
For my quail I found that temperature seemed to affect the laying. When I had mine in a free to roam barn the quail had artificial light and so would lay in the winter time but if it got very cold they would go off lay for abit. Daylight hours does also have an affect as Mo said and probably more so in your country where it is warmer all year round.
Mo is also right in that japanese quail rarely go broody and rarely hatch their own eggs in my experience, however Italian quail seemed to be more broody.
If you leave the egg in, can you put a mark on it so if she lays more you know which is the oldest. If you want her to sit then leave the egg in.
If you are worried about the eggs in the heat then you could maybe get some pebbles to put in with her so she thinks they are eggs and keeps laying and starts to sit and then you can add the eggs back when you have collected 4-7 for her to sit on. Then you can store the eggs in a cooler place until you put them under her.
Good luck
Kind regards
sara @ farmingfriends
We got out first quail egg today YAY.. is a funny shape, size and texture but it is there.... :)
Thanks Mo & Sara!0
Mine Italian Quails are laying eggs & i am hopefull she will lay eggs, i will work on your advice Sara but weather is changing here & its around 26 degree in Karachi, so i think i should let the eggs be there.
Secondly, my other pair, Italian male with Tibetan & Common female, they fight a lot! Male quail is very aggressive and females are so afraid of him! What could be the problem?
Many Thanks for your help friends! :)
Regards
Ahmed
Hi Ahmed as mentioned earlier by Sallie, 1 male to 1 female is not very good. You need alot more females, around 4-6 females to 1 male in all cases. This way the females wont be aggressive to the males for "harassing" them all the time....Poor ladies
Thanks Pink :)
Mine Tibetan also laid egg yesterday :)
And you r right, i will increase females soon :)
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