How big are quails eggs, all the common breeds tested.

Quail eggs are the eggs of quail, a small bird that belongs to the pheasant family and are much smaller than chicken eggs.

A quails egg is one fifth the size of a chickens egg.

I tested, weighed and measured over 300 quails eggs for this article and the smallest was 5.7 grams and measured 24 mm by 20 mm and contained just 5 ml of contents. The largest quails egg I tested was a jumbo eggs that weighed 17.1 grams, was 38 mm long and 28 mm wide and contained 15.5 ml on contents.

Below: The smallest quail egg I tested came from a Chinese painted quail and topped the scales at just 5.73 grams.

Quails eggs are the smallest of any domesticated poultry, the average size of a quails egg is 36 mm long and 26 mm wide and the average weight is 12.5 grams.

Below: My video of the weighing and measuring of various sizes of quails eggs.

Chinese painted quails eggs were the smallest I tested, with Celedon quails eggs coming a close second and Texas A&M Quail produced the largest.

The colour of quail eggs can vary from dark brown, white, light blue to light yellow with black, blue or brown spots.

Colouring of quails eggs is dependant to various factors:

• Improper and insufficient food,
• Poor Husbandry,
• Age of the bird,
• The number of eggs it has already produced,
• Diseases of oviduct,
• Breed of a quail is the biggest influence on egg colour.

Typically, individual females lay eggs with pigmentation, characteristic for this particular species but variations can be quite marked.

Here is a table of some common quail breeds and their typical egg size:

Please note that these sizes are approximate and can vary based on factors such as the age of the bird and their diet.

Adding artificial light to increase the day length may result in more eggs being produced.