I also keep quail and while collecting the quails eggs I found one that chipped. I tossed it (we live on a large property) and the ducks chased it and ate it. They've also gotten into my basket before when I set it on the ground (before I knew they would eat them) and gobbled several up several...
My feed has the same amount of calcium as yours but it's not enough for strong layers. For mine anyway. If your birds are laying at or close to one egg per day per bird, don't worry about it. Mine would lay soft shell eggs or eggs with brittle shells and their laying rate went down. I just dump...
Fellow Texans!
I've gotten a lot of "progress" with figuring out how to sell quail eggs to restaurants or grocery stores. I'm also working on exemptions for small farms to sell the meat and sell the eggs.
If anyone would be interested in being able to sell the eggs or meat, or if anyone has...
My Ancona duck sat on 6 eggs and got three to hatch. She's already squished one. The other two look pretty happy but I haven't seen her let them eat or drink. Can she keep them or should I take them?
On another note, I'm getting 20 more ducklings tomorrow. Can they go in the brooder house with...
I guess at least they're gettin something done so I can try this, but the DSHS lady said we will have to stay on top of it or else it'll get lost and nothing will really come from it. Anyone else in texas that wants to do this kind of thing is welcome to join. Now if we could only get the MEAT...
Well I found some more stuff out.
DSHS: to sell to restaurants, eggs MUST be graded which is TDAs department
TDA: we do not license for grading quail eggs
Me to DSHS: TDA doesn't grade them
DSHS: tell TDA to email that to us so we can write some rules just for you
*sigh* government
It's...
K, I'm not good at determining gender this young. Bird three is def male but the first two goldens--- they have spots but I see brown coming through so maybe male? And I'm not familiar with the coloring on the last bird so I better not guess at that one. One of these more experienced guys might...
I'll keep that link- it's working now- maybe storms were "blocking" it earlier. Thanks for all your help. I'm going to email them and reference this link to see what they say. They have claimed to look it up and that quail don't fall under their jurisdiction, but I thought an email stating it...
Ok the first link says not found, and I'd asked them about the second one and they said no- neither they nor the agriculture guys regulate! But I think you might be right- talking to an attorney would potentially save a headache. What type of lawyer would that be you think?
I thought it was...