Wow! Best processing article ever. So clear and easy to follow, and the pictures are great! Makes me that much more eager to hatch some quail. Thanks so much!
Excellent article. Rose combs are more important to me than pure blood, because it's COLD up here on the mountain. Now I know how to incorporate them (or at least more of them) into the single comb birds I'd like to keep.
What a great, simple way to raise fodder! Thanks for sharing this. I believe I have enough materials to build this without even shopping. My kind of project!
Yes, I tried to make this project as inexpensive as I could, using scrap lumber I had sitting behind the garage. The only thing I had to buy was the plastic dish bins from the Dollar Tree.
For my initial cost of $10, I have grown almost 500 lbs of fresh, green, lush barley fodder from my small backyard flock all winter long for less than 5 minutes of effort per day. The 100 lbs of barley seeds I bought to make my fodder was less than $12.00. For me, that's like getting 10 bags of commercial feed for only $1.20 per 50 lb. bag. Fodder is a supplement to their diet, but it does help stretch out the commercial feed, and I know the fodder is healthy for them.
Thanks for a lovely article! I’m excited to try some of this next spring (if we have spring ever again). I hope I can make it work in our cold climate. So cool!
Compact, inexpensive, simple. Great article for folks looking to grow their own food: Coturnix quail for eggs and meat. The urban/suburbanites’ answer to clean local protein. Not bad for country folk, either! Thanks!
So pretty! I have four little Buffy girls in the brooder/coop. Nice to see they won’t always look like blonde velociraptors. Even so, they seem to be the prettiest of the seventeen wee terrible lizards (though not the meekest of them). I very much enjoyed your lovely article. Thanks so much!
For my initial cost of $10, I have grown almost 500 lbs of fresh, green, lush barley fodder from my small backyard flock all winter long for less than 5 minutes of effort per day. The 100 lbs of barley seeds I bought to make my fodder was less than $12.00. For me, that's like getting 10 bags of commercial feed for only $1.20 per 50 lb. bag. Fodder is a supplement to their diet, but it does help stretch out the commercial feed, and I know the fodder is healthy for them.