T3rrorToff33
Chirping
- Nov 27, 2021
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I've been looking into raising/breeding quail myself for agessss and me and my mom have 100% decided it'd be really fun and possibly even useful to do.
We were thinking about having an outdoor aviary for Japanese quail for months now, but my mom is gonna have heart surgery soon and will be in rehab for a while so a big project like that would be impossible to pull off.
I've been personally really invested in Chinese button quail because I think they're stupidly cute, their color morphs are gorgeous and obviously they're more practical since I already have a large enclosure with 2 levels that is easy to clean and maintain as well as modify. (It covers an entire wall of my living room, and my 2 quail regularly fly in it with no incident)
Basically the reason I've settled on the button quail route is because I've been keeping a pair of males for quite a while now, and one of them made it a habit to pluck the others feathers out, so I'm considering culling him if he won't stop (he's currently in solitairy confinement to give my other quail a chance to grow his feathers back). Since I don't want my lovely blueface boy to be on his own the rest of his life I called the breeder I got them from to ask if he has any hens but he has significantly downsized and hasn't had chicks from his 2 remaining hens and his roo since may.
While talking I ended up saying that I've been thinking about getting an incubator and just hatching my own quail and he essentially agreed that it's very rewarding and if I really want to try it I should go for it.
Now I know that they're tiny and not super useful for food production, but also meat is meat and I've culled 2 quail, skinned 3, and while each quail has about enough meat for making a single chicken nugget out of, I think that even button quail can be a nice meat portion for a meal when you hatch 30 eggs and need something to do with the extra roos.
Basically a big interest I have is to raise the chicks with as much human contact as possible and select the adults with the most docile and chill personalities for further breeding. What I don't like about the quail I've bought as adults is just how skittish they are, but I had one quail hen that was very curious and less flighty than the others so I know that it's a trait that exists in these birds and I would love to see how far I can push it in a couple of generations! And I want to give my blueface roo the chance to father chicks because he is a LOVELY fella, a true gentleman. He treats hens with lots of care and hasn't started a single fight, even when I had him with a hen and another roo for 2 months by mistake. I'm convinced he would give me some wonderful blueface chicks for my project.
We were thinking about having an outdoor aviary for Japanese quail for months now, but my mom is gonna have heart surgery soon and will be in rehab for a while so a big project like that would be impossible to pull off.
I've been personally really invested in Chinese button quail because I think they're stupidly cute, their color morphs are gorgeous and obviously they're more practical since I already have a large enclosure with 2 levels that is easy to clean and maintain as well as modify. (It covers an entire wall of my living room, and my 2 quail regularly fly in it with no incident)
Basically the reason I've settled on the button quail route is because I've been keeping a pair of males for quite a while now, and one of them made it a habit to pluck the others feathers out, so I'm considering culling him if he won't stop (he's currently in solitairy confinement to give my other quail a chance to grow his feathers back). Since I don't want my lovely blueface boy to be on his own the rest of his life I called the breeder I got them from to ask if he has any hens but he has significantly downsized and hasn't had chicks from his 2 remaining hens and his roo since may.
While talking I ended up saying that I've been thinking about getting an incubator and just hatching my own quail and he essentially agreed that it's very rewarding and if I really want to try it I should go for it.
Now I know that they're tiny and not super useful for food production, but also meat is meat and I've culled 2 quail, skinned 3, and while each quail has about enough meat for making a single chicken nugget out of, I think that even button quail can be a nice meat portion for a meal when you hatch 30 eggs and need something to do with the extra roos.
Basically a big interest I have is to raise the chicks with as much human contact as possible and select the adults with the most docile and chill personalities for further breeding. What I don't like about the quail I've bought as adults is just how skittish they are, but I had one quail hen that was very curious and less flighty than the others so I know that it's a trait that exists in these birds and I would love to see how far I can push it in a couple of generations! And I want to give my blueface roo the chance to father chicks because he is a LOVELY fella, a true gentleman. He treats hens with lots of care and hasn't started a single fight, even when I had him with a hen and another roo for 2 months by mistake. I'm convinced he would give me some wonderful blueface chicks for my project.