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My birds have access to food 24/7. I work full time so generally the birds get weighed in the evening after all the other chores are done...about 7pm I would say is average. I currently have a set I am growing out to be my replacement breeders. My original set is now over 14 months old and I am...

Definitely good to see some other comparisons. I agree of the three lines I've looked at I would go with the JMF birds for sure. It looks like your eBay birds are more in line with what I saw from my eBay so-called jumbos that I called standard browns during my comparisons..... SB 3 wk hen...

Hi all, been a while since I've had a chance to do some updates here but finally had a free day today to do some weigh ins and comparisons. I have lost or culled a few hens in the last six months and am down to one pen each of the original JMF and CL birds as well as a pen of JMF-F1 birds who...

Here is a picture of the canned quail and a picture of how much meat you can obtain off one can of quail compared to the bones left. I think this allowed me to get more meat of a quail then any other cooking method so far. Btw, quail sandwiches are delicious ;)

Yes it was cold pack. Just butchered like I normally do, snipping out the backbone gutting them. Left everything else intact and shoved them whole into pint jars. Added 1/4 tsp salt per jar and about one inch of water to the bottom because I wasn't sure how much natural broth the quail would...

I just set over 90 eggs, a mix of JMF and CL eggs. Will probably set another incubator full in a couple days when some turkey eggs come out. I have to get going on the quails again because have several people on a waiting list and I'm down to only three packages of quail in the freezer, lol.

I use two Brinsea octagon 20 and a separate home made incubator for lockdown especially during the busy hatch season. I have been really busy hatching turkey and chicken eggs lately so haven't even done much quail hatching. The nice thing about the Brinsea is I can put any size egg, no rails to...

I love the coop run idea with the cattle panels. One question though, to make the arc high enough for a person to walk in, is one panel enough or did you have to use two?

Ya, it's so funny what predicaments these guys get in when deciding to explore. I had left the cage door open while grabbing more food for them because they had not tried to get out yet before and came back to see this. I first about died laughing and then had to document her shame before...

Thought I would share a picture go my serama chick who tried to make a great escape from the cage but it didn't quite work out.

I am planning on going to the swap. From the Medford area so it will be quite a drive but am excited. I will definitely putting some tickets into that raffle, would love to get those eggs. Fingers crossed, wish me luck ;)

I have used the spiral bands when I can just slip them over the foot without trying to uncoil them and that works well. If I band a bigger quail I use the ones the are harder plastic and they snap close. They snap together tightly and don't come undone but fit loosely on the leg. I have some...

Bend is about a four hour drive if you hustle, plus I work from about 7:30am until about 6pm so really limits what times I can meet up with you. I don't have a whole lot of eggs right now, just put about 300 of them into making dog food on Sunday, lol. I do have almost 30 JMF chicks just...

It looks to me like your chicks are a decent weight and sounds like you found some decent size breeders. Can't help you out with advice on the color genes, I've only had pharaoh colored birds.

I am going to the spring swap, normally it's in canby, Oregon but it got moved to Rickreall this year. That's between Corvallis and Salem from what I can tell.

For any Oregon peeps out there I think I'm going to go up to the Spring Poultry Swap. If anyone else is going and is interested in getting some eggs or just want to meet up and talk birds just pm me.

That is a nice comparison, I didn't have any of my old line left to make a direct comparison like that....I had already eaten them lol. Hope you don't lose any more birds that way, it is always devastating to come out and find something like that has happened. Have to say seeing all the recipes...

My JMF eggs were brown jumbo 'C' line.

I got these on eBay last year from ozarkaviary.com. Unfortunately from what I understand they are not selling them anymore and I have never seen them elsewhere.

Here is another photo of egg size comparison. The top carton is my old line of quail. The bottom carton is from my JMF and CL lines of birds. You can see the eggs in the bottom carton completely fill the slot while the eggs in the upper carton have much more space around them.