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Ahh, okay. That makes semse

Neat. Is there a reason you don't keep the laying gals?

I don't know yet. We only had three, so we have to wait for a day when someone isn't home to cook them. They're skinned so well probably bake them

3rd quail done, a hen and she was the biggest of the three at 4.6 oz after cleaning.

Just butchered my first birds ever! 2 quail males (supposed to have a female too, but she flew the coop) Carcass weights were 4.4 oz and 3.9 oz, and the birds were 7 months old. Ues, I know that's way longer than it should, but i had to get my courage up.

Okay, thanks. I know we don't have room for 20 of these things in my freezer. Do the hens self destruct too, or if I decide not to butcher one will they be fine?

I've gotten birds from them with other people and none of us had a problem, at least we didn't a few years ago when we ordered. Of course, I'm getting all my chicks to be vaccinated now that I know what a big deal mareks is. I might get some of these males next spring. Do you know if they can...

Oh nice! Thanks. Just curious, what's the beak treatment they offer? I'm assuming it's debeaking since I've never seen it before on their layers

What are these imperial I've been hearing so much about on this thread?

It's interesting, I was reading my standard and it said 'When all other points between two birds are equal, the smaller specimen will be awarded the placing' for their bantam cornish. Figuring because even though they're meatish birds, they're bantams and that way they don't get bigger and bigger

6-8 quail eggs a day, 2 mystery pullet eggs every day and 3-4 bantam eggs and 2-4 standard eggs a day so far I like making crosses just cause I'll always get a surprise. Can't wait for my turkens to be able to start breeding. Got a huge one that might be a male or female (obviously one or the...

Thanks. This summer some are going to my last 4H show and then hopefully next year shows are starting back up and I can get NPIP Certified to go out of state with them

Yeah, it seems a lot of people do. I like the idea of showing, so if figured that Cornish would be good because again, they're more meat birds than egg birds and they're small enough that I can do the butchering myself but aren't skin and bones like my egg laying breeds

Ahj, okay, that makes sense. I thought just because they were bantams. The Cornish bantams work for me cause I can breed for show and just eat the ones that don't fit and they get big fast. Mine were hatched in the middle of March and already pretty close to full size for some and at full size...

Even Cornish bantams?

I never knew there were elevation problems raising crosses

Yeah. I'm not holding this against her. Eggs the size of my fist almost every day for not than half a year for 5 years, I'd be depleted too.

They were sokid enough they used to bounce when I threw old ones (We throw old eggs cause we live I. The middle of no where). Now tgeyre paper thin. We've been giving egg shells back in their feed. But again, she is 5 and laying every day so I'm not holding it against her.

My problem hen has huge eggs too. They used to literally be the size of my fists. Now they're longer and skinnier, but probably about the same size if you change the proportions

Was she older? My hen is starting to get like that, but she's almost 5. Her latest egg today was so thin a part of the shell stuck to the membrane and broke inwards. Egg was whole and solid but there was a hole.