Hello. I'm wanting to get into raising quail in Delaware. I called the fish and wildlife department and I guess I'm waiting on the permit application to arrive by snail mail. For personal use I'm allowed only 25.
Anyone raising Quail in Delaware?
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What species were you thinking? What do you plan to use them for?
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I would like to raise them for meat and eggs. I'm going to build a 3 tier hutch 2 ft. Wide x 4 ft long. House a couple breeders in top 2 sections and meat birds on the bottom. I'll have the wire floor angled to make egg collection easier. Still waiting for the permit /application. The lady didn't seem to know much about. But I got 17 chicken eggs in the incubator on day 10 so I have to build a larger chicken coop in the mean time. Just start out with maybe jumbo coturnix. Ones I can easily sex.
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If you intend to raise bobwhite quail in DE you will need the permit because they are a state game bird. If you raise coturnix you will not need a permit as they are not a state game bird.,but a domestic breed.
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Unless the woman I spoke with at the Department of Fish and wildlife has no clue she told me I needed a permit. I said" I would like to raise quail in my backyard for eggs and personal consumption". She said that I need a permit weather or not I'm breeding or raising to sell. If choose to sell I need the breeders permit and its $11.50. Maybe I should have specified but I think she really didn't know much about quail.
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She probably assumed you were talking about bobwhite quail which does fall under fish & wildlife management. It is very possible she never heard of cotrurnix quail being that it is not a Delaware game bird.
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Hey sup guys. I live in new castle Delaware and depending on what licences you get your allowed up to 500 bobwhites to be sold per year. You are correct about coturnix quails you can have as much as you want. Now I own about a dozen coturnix which just started laying last friday. My bobwhites are the meat bird known on here as the butler quail. They're about 7 months old now so I'm still waiting on them to lay. I got 13 females and 35 males
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Just called the USDA department of Agraculture and they said I only needed to register my backyard flock just like you do with your chicken flock. This is so you can be notified about diseases outbreaks in your area.
DENREC Department of fish and wildlife is sending me a permit for 25 birds or less. That's for my personal use and consumption. That would be for the Bob Whites if I decide to raise them. But just starting out I only wanted to raise coturnix. The permit is free. 26 plus or if I want to breed and sell its $11.50 is what they told me.
DENREC Department of fish and wildlife is sending me a permit for 25 birds or less. That's for my personal use and consumption. That would be for the Bob Whites if I decide to raise them. But just starting out I only wanted to raise coturnix. The permit is free. 26 plus or if I want to breed and sell its $11.50 is what they told me.
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quailwhisper
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I didn't know they had the small permit for 25 or less quails. Well if your looking for butler quails I'll try to have 50 breeder hens by fall. I'm in for the meat as well.the butler don't grow as fast as the coturnix but full grown butler can be close to twice the size of the Pharoah quail. I'm not a expert but they got quails threads that have raising these jokers down to art.
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Received my permit yesterday.
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