➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[007Sean]

11 days old and doing great! ALL 47 OF 'EM. Starting to fly a bit. I'm worried they'll escape the brooder before the heat lamp is high enough for my to put a piece of HC across the opening in the top. The are already flying up to the top, just 3 more inches and they'll be out.

Be glad you don't have pheasants...they would already be flying out 3 days ago!

 

[BReeder!]

Be glad you don't have pheasants...they would already be flying out 3 days ago!

Thankfully the brooder is a large rubbermaid trough that is really deep or these quail would be all over the sun room already...

 

[007Sean]

Thankfully the brooder is a large rubbermaid trough that is really deep or these quail would be all over the sun room already...

That's what I use for my pheasants, when their inside...came home one morning after work and the whole house had pheasants running around in it. I forgot to put the top over it, I thought I had at least a couple of more days.

 

[Missyblue]

10 quail equal about 1.5 chickens or one duck.

I have a few pages to catch up but that is the quandary I have about doing quails. 10 times the more life’s / heads to take off.....I understand the qualie meat may taste different but not sure if worth the stress......I have no problem offing a asshole rooster, but processing others still pulls at the heart strings even though I know it is the way of life...

 

[Crazydoglady99]

I hear ya Missy. Breaks my heart I had to dispatch some of my turkeys recently (I love turkeys!), it was heartbreaking. I still have dreams that everywhere I go people are giving away Turkey poults

Anyway.. I got 3 eggs today from my 2 girlie quails clever girls!

 

[igorsMistress]

I have the scissors. I like the scissors. No one here smokes cigars so scissors it is. They work as intended, that's good enough for me.

 

[BantyChooks]

I have the scissors. I like the scissors. No one here smokes cigars so scissors it is. They work as intended, that's good enough for me.

What are they?

 

[igorsMistress]

What are they?

This is just a screen shot on my phone, but you put the end of the egg in the hole, the other side cuts off the top and you pour out the egg.

I got mine via Amazon.

 

[dpenning]

It is at 75 and 380 tucked back at the north west corner. I don’t go there very often. I prefer the
Smaller independent store in Leonard. I do have to to to TSC for some things they don’t carry.

Wow, they still have Gebo's? Back when I was a kid it was called Blacklands, went to school with the kid who's dad started it.
It was in the south part of McKinney, at the intersection of Hwy 5 and Business 5. They moved it out to Hwy 21 and Hwy 75 in late 1979...after it was sold out to Gebo's. They became way higher after Gebo's took over.

 

[BullChick]

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This is just a screen shot on my phone, but you put the end of the egg in the hole, the other side cuts off the top and you pour out the egg.

I got mine via Amazon.

When I was looking them up, I saw that they actually have an “egg eating set” for all eggs that includes a fake egg that lets you know how cooked your eggs are. Not sure if it’s accurate for quail to emu, but it’s a cute idea.