Keeping Quails: Gender Differentiation

Reader Contribution by Taylor Miller
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<a href=”https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/pet-quails” target=”_blank”>

In my previous post</a>, you were introduced to my new adventures in quail raising. To catch you up, I now have three coturnix (also known as Japanese) quails, one male and two females (Bebee, Doug and Skeeter, respectively).</p>
<p>Unlike chickens, which can take as long as six months to begin laying, quails will lay, at the earliest, at six weeks of age. One of my females, Skeeter, began laying at six weeks one day and has steadily produced an egg a day since. The other female, Doug, has not yet begun, but this isn’t unusual for seven weeks.</p>

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