Prior to last night we believed we had 33 coturnix quail 5 male and 28 female. Over the last few weeks we have been noticing our Hens seem to be being harassed more that one might expect with that roo to hen ratio. And we have been wondering if maybe the breeder that sold us the birds was not as...
Several months ago I heard a Podcast with a guy called Moonvallyprepper talking about raising quail. I live in the city and was looking for an animal to raise to help reduce our meat bill to support my pale diet. After hearing the podcast I pretty much decided that quail would be my animal of...
I am trying to figure out which hen is laying egg and which are not.
We have a total of 33 birds 5 roos and 28 hens. We are getting a varying amount of eggs per day as few as six this week and as many as 11 (Three days straight).
The last 6 days:
Sunday 11
Monday 11
Tuesday 11
Wednesday 6...
OK, so I feel like I have a pretty good working plan:
1 pen that holds about 30 birds for breed stock and eggs for food
1 incubator
1 Brooder box
2 grow out pens that hold 15 to 20
The plan is 3 weeks incubator (18 days) 4 weeks grow out pen and then to the freezer they go.
My question is...