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I'm sorry, but I'm really tired and stressed. Are you saying that once the birds are feathered out, if I put them outside in the wintertime protected from breezes from a tarp, they'll thrive?

I need to keep them inside all winter long? Or just until they're feathered out? I don't have space for adult birds in the house. I can put the pen against the side of a house and I can put up tarps over three sides of the kennel to minimize breeze, but it seems hard to believe that would...

I desperately want to raise quail but live in Kingston, NY. How early in the spring do you think I can start? I'd start now, if I wasn't worried about freezing the poor birds over the winter.

Updating NY information, italics mine: from http://www.dec.ny.gov/permits/25010.html Domestic Game Bird Breeder License Statutory Authority: ECL 11-0103, 11-1901 and 6 NYCRR Part 153 and Part 175 The Department may issue a Domestic Game Bird Breeder License to an owner or lessee of wholly...

ok, ok, lol how about how much feed 10 or 100 go through a day? a week? how long it takes to go through a 50# bag?

YUCKY, no, I didn't mean giving the birds spoiled cat food. I meant to have a mesh bag around it so the birds couldn't get to the cat food and the worms could fall out of the holes. Like... um... thin k of a tea ball.

I've got a good grasp on which table scraps I could give my chickens already. Are the nutritional needs of quail very different, other than needing extra protein? Example -- I have some beef in the fridge that isn't spoiled, but isn't as fresh as I like it. Could I cook it up and give to the...

How long does it take per bird? Can you assembly line it -- kill a dozen birds, scald all, pluck all, eviscerate all? Quote:

Quote: That was pretty much how I'd envisioned it. Scissors sound harder than my small cleaver. I scald as you would with chickens, cut the wings off, then pluck, being careful not to tear the skin (it's very thin). Temp? How long? I like to leave them whole and with the skin on and...

Can I use the gamebird adult food and supplement with grubs? I'm thinking about the maggot farm discussions that I was reading last year. I was thinking... if I took plastic mesh and made a bag to hold cat food in the center, I could put that in the hutch and let them munch the bugs as they...

I'm living in the city now so I'm not worried about big animals, but we have a lot of cats. How do I need to cat proof the hutch?

do I really need to use an incubator? will coturnix sit on their own eggs?

I'm keeping them in the backyard and if a cop comes visiting, I'll ask them if they've gotten rid of the crack dealers on the street or the jerk who set my apartment on fire on St Pat's day, thank you very much. I don't intend to release the birds, I don't intend to sell eggs, meat OR birds, I...

Can you explain how you made that into a waterer? Quote: