➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[el dorado quail]

You need a turkey from @Sara L ! She is about to have a self described army.

Everyone around pville has wild turkeys nesting in their gardens, destroying everything in the process lol

 

[el dorado quail]

It's um a little out of hand here.

Stacks?

I don't refrigerate for a few days first (for personal consumption only basically) because when a bear ate all my birds I rebuilt from a single tray of eggs I had saved.

I might have to do that...coyotes got real close last night and I don't even have quailies yet!

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Everyone around pville has wild turkeys nesting in their gardens, destroying everything in the process lol

Yum!

All we have in our yard are rodents and stringy, desperate, trash-eating carnivores :/

 

[9chickenwhisperer]

went ahead and called the hatch! 23 hatched out of 35 that made it to lock down! Day 18!

 

[9chickenwhisperer]

They're soooooo tiny!!!!

 

[muddy75]

Man you guys make me feel like I need another fridge to prepare for the onslaught of eggs! Where do you store them all? Garage fridge?

yes I store mine in garage fridge but I also have a 6x6 walk-in cooler that we built last fall for storage of meat/eggs/veggies (as well as beer) I call it my “EER” as it was built for beer and deer!

 

[muddy75]

Gotta get them white meat birds maybe. I've been craving a good, hearty pot pie for a while

hubby cooked a pot pie last week (this one was from store-bought breast) but still yummy. Tonight we had white chili from leg quarters/back of one of our BB bronze turkeys that I we butchered in January. The final BB bronze is scheduled to be deep fried for my Mother’s Day Dinner.

 

[el dorado quail]

hubby cooked a pot pie last week (this one was from store-bought breast) but still yummy. Tonight we had white chili from leg quarters/back of one of our BB bronze turkeys that I we butchered in January. The final BB bronze is scheduled to be deep fried for my Mother’s Day Dinner.

Making me have the hungries

 

[BReeder!]

Mine are because I always put off butchering them so long. And I keep the skin.

To be fair, I like them that way! Just maybe not the most useful as a substitute for dry light chicken meat.

I will have to experiment.

I, too, enjoy them skin on. Have you found a convenient way/tool fir plucking them. Culling 20 at a time is great for filling the freezer in an hour, but plucking would turn that into an all day affair.
I seen drill powered pluckers. That seems a bit rough for a thin quail skin though.

 

[muddy75]

I, too, enjoy them skin on. Have you found a convenient way/tool fir plucking them. Culling 20 at a time is great for filling the freezer in an hour, but plucking would turn that into an all day affair.
I seen drill powered pluckers. That seems a bit rough for a thin quail skin though.

quail pluck really easy! probably not much time difference overall than skinning. Hubby and I have a pretty good system....he pulls the head off and dunks then hands off to me for plucking then he guts and I finish cleaning and packaging. we each jump in and help the other as needed.