I have told you before that I am raising 6 quail. My purpose is to try to learn as much as I can about quail breeding to learn about quail egg production.
Since I started keeping them at home in a small place in a special home-type cage, I am doing very well. Although it has been slow progress I am seeing slow but steady progress with them. They are 4 female quail and two male quail.
The behavior they have had while together in one cage has not been entirely helpful. They fought a lot because in fact when I bought them I asked for only one male and 5 females. They made a mistake and sold me two males.
The older male was in charge of plucking the younger male to the point that I decided to change the quail into two cages and put a population of two in two females with one male in each cage.
I am now seeing progress in the way that in one cage there are two laying females and in the other cage the females have not yet started laying.
From what I have been able to study is that it is not only the age they are now that triggers or stimulates egg laying but many other variables. When I bought them in December, the saleswoman told me that they were almost 30 days old and at any moment they would lay their eggs.
The time for this date has passed and they have more than 60 days. It is enough time for all the quails to be laid, according to the theory, but it is not so. In the beginning, when I brought them to my house I started giving them a feed called Starter feed for small birds, then after a month they continue with a feed rich in proteins which is a feed called laying hen feed. They are only laying two quails that are together in the same cage.
The layer feed is special for them to start laying their eggs, but I still don't have the two missing quails to lay their eggs. They also need to be in a calm place and were in stress for a long time because the two males were fighting a lot. One is considerably older than the other. It should be noted that I did not realize they were two males until a week ago.
They also need to be and remain in an environment that they trust and the quail have been subjected to witnessing many changes. Cage changes, environment changes, protein feed changes, cage location changes, caretaker changes, lots of noise, etc.
As I pointed out at the beginning, I am in a trial period. What is called trial and error or also called trial and error. With this, I am trying to find the best way to learn as much and as well as I can about favorable conditions for them. I am trying to get my quails to set and initiate efficient laying according to the age of 60 days that they are already at.
In a future publication, I will be telling you how my breeding continues.
