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Anybody raise quail
Posted on 3/30/11 at 8:26 pm
Posted on 3/30/11 at 8:26 pm
I was wondering if anybody raises quail here and for what purpose. I have 5 hole hanging cages with my breeders. I have in each pen 1 male with 5 hens. I have another run of cages with abunch growing out to be butchered. Have another 130 due to hatch Friday. I eat alot of them, sell some eggs for people to pickle, and sell them butchered by the dozen. All mine are the jumbo pharoah quail. Browns, whites, manchurian golds in color. Thinking about getting some of the mountail quail soon.
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Posted on 3/30/11 at 8:31 pm to DownSouthTiger
I have a couple of times, but always end up butchering all of them for meat after a year or 2.
It's an everyday ordeal, and you have to have someone feed them anytime you want to leave town. I always get bobwhites, but my buddy had some pharohs for a while.
It's a cool hobby.
It's an everyday ordeal, and you have to have someone feed them anytime you want to leave town. I always get bobwhites, but my buddy had some pharohs for a while.
It's a cool hobby.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 8:38 pm to DownSouthTiger
I had an uncle who did. I had a couple dozen once but I don't like the white meat, did it to pickle the eggs- I love them.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 8:38 pm to Clyde Tipton
I think the key thing to raising animals is to make it as low maintenance as possible I raise show rabbits too. I have all of them in a metal building in runs of hanging wire cages with automatic water systems. So there is no water to fill up and all my feeders for quail and rabbits are set up on outside of cages so I just walk with a bucket of feed and a cup and dump at each cage. So if I leave someone can feed all my rabbits and quail in a couple of minutes. When having babies and dealing with eggs now that takes a little more time.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 8:42 pm to DownSouthTiger
Man I've tried to raise rabbits a couple of times and had TERRIBLE luck. Only thing I've ever not been able to raise.
They stayed with sores in their ears, wouldn't breed.. I was thinking the other day I'd like to try again. I have a huge metal barn closed in on 2 1/2 sides. 100 X 200 and half slab. I could put hanging cages under and I have water run to several points.
They stayed with sores in their ears, wouldn't breed.. I was thinking the other day I'd like to try again. I have a huge metal barn closed in on 2 1/2 sides. 100 X 200 and half slab. I could put hanging cages under and I have water run to several points.
This post was edited on 3/30/11 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 3/30/11 at 8:51 pm to Geauxtiga
Some lines of rabbits have earmites worse than others, usually a drop of mineral in the ear once a month will stop them. As far as breeding the most common problem is having a fat doe, keep the does on a strict diet. Also in the summer through about December the bucks get sterile. Our summers are too hot. Three straight days over 90 degrees can make a buck sterile and it make two months to get them fertile again so I usually won't breed them fro July to December
Posted on 3/30/11 at 8:54 pm to DownSouthTiger
I thought, the last time, heat had a lot to do with my lack of success. Rabbit cage (Hutch, is it called?) was not under a roof, tree, etc. It did have a top/roof on the cage but having it under another shade provider would've helped a lot.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 9:00 pm to Geauxtiga
Yeah shade or fans would help some but most rabbits especially older ones will get sterile anyway with the hot temps.
Posted on 3/30/11 at 9:25 pm to DownSouthTiger
Did many years ago. It was cool for a while, but a ton of work. We set up automatic waterers and feeders and it still was a pain because you still had to pick eggs and slaughter them and clean them. Peeling the eggs to pickle them took a ton of time. Like I said, it was fun for a while, but got old quick.
Posted on 3/31/11 at 1:45 am to DownSouthTiger
Brings back memories. In late 50's, early 60's my parents raised quail (bobwhites). Galvanized multi-cages on stands (not suspended) in enclosed barn. We had about 2 to 3 dozen. Collected eggs, fed, watered daily. Labor intensive, as some stated earlier. Incubator had 4 levels (as I remember - could have been 3) with about 30 eggs per level (if I remember right).
My parents sold quail pairs around town, we ate many, but I don't remember pickled eggs back then.
I'll never forget this, though. One of the hurricanes at the time blew the doors off the barn housing the cages. It also blew the cages over and all (yes, all) the quail escaped to nearby trees and elsewhere. My Dad's solution: He took the cages outside the barn and set them upright like normal. Would you believe the quail flew back and landed (even roosted) on top of the cages? With a net my Dad caught all (or almost all, who knows?) of the quail and returned them to their cages.
True story. Like I said, brings back memories. Quail are powerful birds. If you hold one in your two hands be sure to hold tight. They are so strong they can power out of your grip if it's not sufficient. They are great eating, though. No doubt. Great memories.
Good luck to you continuing your hobby/business.
My parents sold quail pairs around town, we ate many, but I don't remember pickled eggs back then.
I'll never forget this, though. One of the hurricanes at the time blew the doors off the barn housing the cages. It also blew the cages over and all (yes, all) the quail escaped to nearby trees and elsewhere. My Dad's solution: He took the cages outside the barn and set them upright like normal. Would you believe the quail flew back and landed (even roosted) on top of the cages? With a net my Dad caught all (or almost all, who knows?) of the quail and returned them to their cages.
True story. Like I said, brings back memories. Quail are powerful birds. If you hold one in your two hands be sure to hold tight. They are so strong they can power out of your grip if it's not sufficient. They are great eating, though. No doubt. Great memories.
Good luck to you continuing your hobby/business.
This post was edited on 4/1/11 at 1:00 am
Posted on 3/31/11 at 7:03 am to TaserTiger
I have heard the bobwhites would return if they get loose. I wouldn't mind to get a few but what is strange is that even though they are the about the same size as a pharoah quail the bobwhite take 5 months to mature to lay eggs the vs 6 weeks for the pharoah.
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