➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah, and I posted this before I saw this post!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/☣the-sin-bin☣.1212809/post-22474546

Here’s the original thread I saw LOL

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/on-day-3-of-trying-to-hatch-an-egg-in-my-boobs.1350903/

 

[007Sean]

OMG!!! Hilarious!!

I think I remember reading the YouTube girls original thread on it but I never found out what happened to the egg. Sad hearing it

But now she has 16 in there!? OMG

Apparently most are quail too so somehow your post is relevant now too

Yeah, button quail eggs! I'd be afraid of 'crushing' them....mine are so thin shelled...and yes, they are getting plenty of calcium.

 

[R2elk]

I’ve thought about that too although I’m a little worried about them flopping everywhere.

Although I honestly like the broom thing. It was super fast and easy and a lot less personal than staring them down while you do it

When I was a kid, we did multiple chickens at a time. I kept a bucket handy and jammed the headless bodies into the bucket to keep them from running and flopping around.

Putting them in the appropriate sized cone would work the best with any of the decapitation methods.

My method is to use one hand to stretch the wings back one at a time and secure them with the other hand that is holding the legs. Hold the chicken above the chopping block while laying its head on the chopping block. Try to get it to hook its beak on the edge of the chopping block and gently stretch the neck out before swiinging the hatchet. A good sharp machete or cleaver will work fine as the hatchet replacement. Hold on tight and remove the head with one hatchet chop, Hold the headless body out away from your body while it bleeds out (less than 2 minutes). Once the body goes limp, I head straight to the scalding pot which for a chicken is a 5 gallon bucket holding approximately 4 gallons of 160°F water.

Before starting make sure you are wearing the appropriate clothing and shoes that you will not mind getting blood on.

 

[R2elk]

I think we will do it like we did in high school. Someone hold the turkey and someone chops it head. Turkeys move even more than chickens afterwards.

Quail will be the easiest one. Just as long as some of them hatch.

I used to use electrical tape to hold the turkey's feet together. After I taped the feet together, I would run the tape around the body securing the wings to the body and then remove the turkey's head. A properly sized cone will work better.

 

[R2elk]

I found this to be amusing but than again I have a 'warp' sense of humor!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/boobcubator-channel-d.1363869/post-22475007

I believe she is the one in this thread that was having a discussion with Kiki about her failure to hatches from this method.

 

[007Sean]

I believe she is the one in this thread that was having a discussion with Kiki about her failure to hatches from this method.

All I can really say is, "some peeps" SMH

 

[ShrekDawg]

Yeah, button quail eggs! I'd be afraid of 'crushing' them....mine are so thin shelled...and yes, they are getting plenty of calcium.

Yeah I don’t know how she hasn’t crushed any of them yet!!! Or why she doesn’t get an incubator

 

[ShrekDawg]

I believe she is the one in this thread that was having a discussion with Kiki about her failure to hatches from this method.

Yet keeps trying!! Lol

 

[R2elk]

Yeah I don’t know how she hasn’t crushed any of them yet!!! Or why she doesn’t get an incubator

I believe she has an incubator but has had mostly failed results.

 

[ShrekDawg]

When I was a kid, we did multiple chickens at a time. I kept a bucket handy and jammed the headless bodies into the bucket to keep them from running and flopping around.

Putting them in the appropriate sized cone would work the best with any of the decapitation methods.

My method is to use one hand to stretch the wings back one at a time and secure them with the other hand that is holding the legs. Hold the chicken above the chopping block while laying its head on the chopping block. Try to get it to hook its beak on the edge of the chopping block and gently stretch the neck out before swiinging the hatchet. A good sharp machete or cleaver will work fine as the hatchet replacement. Hold on tight and remove the head with one hatchet chop, Hold the headless body out away from your body while it bleeds out (less than 2 minutes). Once the body goes limp, I head straight to the scalding pot which for a chicken is a 5 gallon bucket holding approximately 4 gallons of 160°F water.

Before starting make sure you are wearing the appropriate clothing and shoes that you will not mind getting blood on.

Thank you!! This was extremely helpful!!!

I never thought about a bucket tbh

We have lots of those. Maybe I should just use those instead of buying a cone?

I like your method of the hatchet and holding them though and good idea about using the bucket for the water because I was wondering how I’d find a pot big enough

Now that I know I can kill, I was thinking I might like to do meat birds at some point but probably not until later in the year. Or I might hatch out some of Jack’s offspring and use them. If he ever decides to mate and crow instead of running away from the girls