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I use a yellow bug light, they seem to like the warm glow of it.

When I put it in my flower beds my gloves are stained brown from the dye when I get through laying it. Does that answer your question.

I wonder what the calcium content is?

FYI he spells his name Robby. But robbie or robby he is the man for quail. Wish he would write a book but this thread is the next best thing since he is so busy. Thanks for starting this sniper, long overdue!

it's not so much how big the mesh needs to be to keep the birds in, but to keep preditors out. Look at James dimensions in post above, he is right 8n the money.

not noisy at all, the hens sound exactly like crickets and the roos a funny little sound. Nothing like a chicken rooster at all! Harder to incubate than chickens but the chicks aren't any harder to raise. I love my birds. Check out josh in griffin's fa ebook page, quail king and also there is...

good to meet you! I'm raising quail up here, do you know Josh down in Griffin? Got some great birds from him and his father in law has awsome chickens.

howdy, I'm in cobb in the woods over by six flags

In my opinion it would be great. Good luck

I wouldn't suggest any cage with wire larger than 1 x 1. I had a preditor reach in and pull a bird through one bit at a time. But I'm in the woods with lots of racoons, owls hawks etc. A snake could get in easily also

Renaissance Farms and also a supplier on amazon are both advertising GMO soy free quail eggs so maybe it is available somewhere. I've emailed both asking for the name of the supplier. I'll pass it on if I get a response.

I've done the grilling in the past but this batch the other half decided to handle it and stuffed them with wild rice and wild mushrooms and roasted them for a bit. OMG, now that was the 30 dollar dish. She got the wild mushrooms from the store we didn't pick em from the backyard, lol

Hey DC, I'm getting 2.9- 3.4 calcium in my layer feed. Do you think I still need to put out oyster shell?

ditto on making sure the shears are sharp. My wife wouldn't let me use her cutlery sizzors so My first attempt was my hand held pruners which I considered sharp, they weren't sharp enough and although the bird didn't suffer it was a nasty job I don't recommend. After that bird I snuck in, got...

That's good info, we hear so much that they mature at 8 weeks I've wondered how much we can extend that. Just catching up and caught the videos. Good job Don, very helpful.