In reference to breeding stock on the JMF information:
How is interbreeding prevented. We are going to start with a small flock and they will be raised in the same grow out pen.
Since you brought it up...I just received my incubator yesterday and setting up a brooder (YouTube is a great resource).
When I decide to hatch some of my eggs, do I just integrate the chicks into the existing flock or do I keep them separate?
I'm new at raising quail and will be ordering about 20-30 hatchlings this spring.
I live in a urban setting and I plan to have an outside pin on my back deck so I can have easy access to them in an outside setting. (I want to raise them for eggs and meat)
(Eventually I will breed them but...