TEXAS A&M WHITE COTURNIX QUAIL
(Coturnix is casually pronounced like the girl’s name, Courtney; or scientifically like kuhTURNicks)
Pictures: Day-old A&M brood, glamor-shot with a 3-week old chick, and an adult Texas A&M Coturnix Quail
- note that he is not being restrained, he is sitting in hand willfully
and isn't the slightest bit upset about it! : )
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S T A T I S T I C S
Scientific Name: Coturnix coturnix
Incubation period: 18 days
Humidity for incubator: 50 - 60%
Move to hatcher/stop turning: 14 days
Matures at: 6 weeks (for meat production, we prefer to process at 7 weeks for a little more size).
Benefits of raising: Egg production, meat production. May also make nice pets as they are very laid back and easy-going birds.
Size/Weight: 8 - 10 ounces
Sexing: Almost impossible; there are no markings or major differences
in adult males or females. The males (especially breeding males)
typically will be a little smaller.
Space/pen requirements: We prefer wire pens for quail; 25 birds can be
housed comfortably in a 24”x30”x8” wire cage with
external feeding trough and automatic waterer or pop bottle waterer(s)
- I would recommend 2-4 pop bottle waterers for that many quail.
Dropping trays need to be cleaned at least every other day, especially
when the weather is warm. There should be 4-6” between the bottom
of the cage and the dropping trays. Chicks seem to be somewhat
susceptible to bacterial infections - disinfecting of all equipment in
between use such as incubator, brooders, feeder/waterers, etc. is
highly recommended as is daily disinfecting the feeder/waterers. Use a
good product like TekTrol. Cedar shavings are poisonous to birds and
should never be used. Newspapers, especially on young chicks, can cause
leg and foot problems. For secure footing for young chicks, I recommend
rubbery shelf-liner or 1/4x1/4 wire that their feet won’t slip
through.
Breeding Ratio: Our breeding stacks have 5 males in a cage with 20
females. If egg production for eating eggs or hatching eggs is your
goal, this is a great ratio. If you are raising the birds strictly for
meat, it really doesn’t matter.
Special Needs: Very few, these are fairly easy, laid-back to birds to
raise who are hardy and seem to have very little problems. Sometimes as
chicks you might see a curled-toe chick (we call it a club foot). Small Texas A&M chicks can also get their heads stuck in
1/2x1/2 wire, so the brooder either needs to have 1/4x1/4 sides OR some
sort of draft shield on the INSIDE of the wire so the little babies
don’t stick their heads through, they become trapped and can die
if not removed post haste.
Texas
A&Ms are quite friendly and have interesting antics to watch &
enjoy. They do the cutest things! Among which is stretching out for a
nap and
looking quite dead - really, they look like “roadkill” or
something, we’ve actually picked these birds up, removed them
from the cage and had them wake up in our hands and look at us like
“What the heck? Can’t a chick take a nap around
here?!” They don’t outgrow this habit, either, as the big
ones do it, too. The sound they make is very different and some say it
sounds like their name - kuhTURNicks, but I don't think so. I hope to
have a format to add the sound soon, but it takes a little getting used
to. My husband
finds it very soothing and calming, and I’ve noticed a lot of
other
people do.
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