➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[BReeder!]

Do any of you vaccinate your quail?

I looked into it and decided not to because it's not easy to find what vaccines to give them and what's safe for consumption of eggs and meat. I found that most people just don't bother vaccinating quail.

 

[Kiki]

Do any of you vaccinate your quail?

No and I don't think I'd ever do so.

 

[CayugaJana]

No and I don't think I'd ever do so.

Because of a health risk involved in the vaccine? I was curious as I’ve read quail are more susceptible to disease than ducks. So I wandered if people ran into issues. I’d hate to invest in several hundred quail just to have them die.

 

[BReeder!]

Because of a health risk involved in the vaccine? I was curious as I’ve read quail are more susceptible to disease than ducks. So I wandered if people ran into issues. I’d hate to invest in several hundred quail just to have them die.

Source? I've heard and read here on BYC that quail are quite hardy birds. There are a few diseases to watch for that could be catastrophic, but otherwise they are hardy little birds. Here's and article I like: https://hubpages.com/animals/Disease-In-Quails

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Because of a health risk involved in the vaccine? I was curious as I’ve read quail are more susceptible to disease than ducks. So I wandered if people ran into issues. I’d hate to invest in several hundred quail just to have them die.

I don't vaccinate and I don't know anyone who does. In an ideal world I would but in reality dosing would be a heck of a thing.

They ARE susceptible to a lot of diseases wild birds and other poultry types carry. Not to say they're delicate; just practice good biosecurity, don't house them with chickens (imo; everyone debates about this), etc.

 

[Kiki]

Because of a health risk involved in the vaccine? I was curious as I’ve read quail are more susceptible to disease than ducks. So I wandered if people ran into issues. I’d hate to invest in several hundred quail just to have them die.

Because I am going to be eating them.
I prefer all natural.
No extra add on stuff in my meat.

 

[CayugaJana]

Because I am going to be eating them.
I prefer all natural.
No extra add on stuff in my meat.

Gotcha.... It’s one thing to read information. But another to see it in reality. That’s good to know it’s not something you all see very often!

 

[Kiki]

Gotcha.... It’s one thing to read information. But another to see it in reality. That’s good to know it’s not something you all see very often!

I'm making up my own quail keeping rules as I go.

Who knows the way I change my mind I could be vaccinating next year. But I highly doubt it.

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Here is my recent fake chicken egg. I tossed it in the 'bator but it doesn't look viable yet/at all. (That's me writing a scribbly "D" on it). It's also kind of tiny.

I love love love love the eggs that are next to it. My white bibbed charcoal rosetta female has been laying them - very consistent and distinctively different from all my other eggs. I am now getting about .9 eggs/day from all ten girlies

I have finalized a few breeding goals and my lines are basically getting split up into my more commercially appealing jumbo autosexing celadon project (check back in...ten years) and my smaller, highly colorful egg laying line in which I'm aggressively selecting for highly patterned egg shells as well. This little gal will fit right in to the latter.

(Yes those are not in the rotating tray, I ran out of space so they get a gentle tipping a few times a day for now )

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Also, my dog is sad he missed the hound party, although he also wishes it was a real life dog park playdate. He helps me check my fish traps, and packs all his own gear, incl sweater and sleeping bag because he is a chilly weeny