Decided this weekend that the weather was finally done with the brutal cold and moved the birds back into the suspended breeding cages. One mistake I made this year is… [Continue Reading]
Category: Eggs and Meat
Posts about raising quail in your backyard for eggs and meat!
So spring is trying to arrive, but intermittent snow storms (12 inches at a time) are trying to slow it down. All the quail except 1 of 2 Texas A&M… [Continue Reading]
Just my two cents, but raising quail for eggs are a great alternative to chickens if your local government prohibits chickens or you just want to try it out. They… [Continue Reading]
No need to chase the kids out of the room, this is a G-rated post, no gory pictures. Sorry! But if you want to know how to process quail, this… [Continue Reading]
1. Local/City ordinances in your area do not allow or restrict keeping chickens More and more cities are allowing residents to keep chickens. A lot of the times they place… [Continue Reading]
So things have cooled down to normal – in the 90’s. The birds have started laying a little better, but still not what they did last year. I did have… [Continue Reading]
Well it has been hotter and drier than hades here in the mid-west. My birds are really slow on the egg production. Been keeping them good on fresh water and… [Continue Reading]
Don’t tell my wife, but I have a group of eggs scheduled to hatch this weekend. My initial spring hatch didn’t leave me with a good ratio of male to… [Continue Reading]
Great News! We have eggs finally. It has been a long eggless winter, so this is a good day.
So once again I had about 50% hatch rate. I was able to sell a few and at 8 weeks I butchered 14.