We have a network of farmers selling fertile eggs for hatching. We provide contacts of these suppliers to our customers as a value addition after buying an incubator. We have severally repeated that you need a KWS licence to start quail farming. Visit their offices at Keren for more details. We always advise these suppliers to sell the freshest hatching eggs that are not older than 5 days. The common breed in Kenya is Coturnix Quai. If you are supplying fertile quail eggs please leave a comment here with your contact details
COMMON NAME | LATIN NAME | INCUBATION PERIOD | CLUTCH SIZE | EGG COLOR | NOTES |
| Bobwhite | Colinus virginianus | 21-23 days | 7 to 28 | White | Circulated Air incubators: 99 3/4 degrees F; 84 to 86 degrees F wet bulb, reduce during last week of incubation. |
| California Valley Quail | Callipepla californica | 22-23 days | 10 to 14 eggs | Buff/cream with brown spots | Incubation as in Bobwhite. |
| Gambel’s Quail | Callipepla gambelii | 21-23 days | 6 to 19 eggs | Pale buff to white with moderate pink/brown spots | Lower humidity than two above species, wet bulb of 83 F; hens will lay several clutches in captivity, reports of 50 eggs per hen are not uncommon. |
| Scaled Quail | Callipepla squamata | 22-23 days | 8 to 14 eggs | Pale Buff to cream, light spotting. | Humidity: 82 to 84 degrees F wet bulb. |
| Elegant Quail | Callipepla douglasii | 22-23 days | 8 to 12 eggs | White | Humidity as in Scaled; chicks may not start eating on their own. Also known as Benson or Douglas Quail. |
| Montezuma Quail | Cyrtonyx montezuma | 24-25 days | 6 to 16 eggs | White | Keep wet bulb at 82 degrees F; chicks will need help to learn to eat. |
| Mountain Quail | Oreortyx pictus | 24-25 days | 6 to 15 | Pale buff to cream, no spotting | Wet Bulb of 82 to 84 degrees F. |
| Chinese Painted Quail | Coturnix chinensis | 16 days | 4-7 | Brown, mottled with black | Very tiny chicks, can slip through 1/2 inch hardware cloth; better known as the Button Quail. |
| Coturnix Quail | Coturnix coturnix | 16-17 days | 8 to 13 eggs in the wild; captive hens known to lay over 100 eggs in a season. | As in above species. | Also known as the Pharaoh Quail and Migratory Quail; commercially raised for meat and eggs. |
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