➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[Kiki]

What the heck is a vittle vault?

Googling now.

 

[Kiki]

Never heard of these before.
Neat.

 

[RUNuts]

I use the galvanized trash cans. Takes the dogs longer to chew through those. Longer. They are not dog proof. Surprisingly, I find a full grown roach in there occasionally. I just add it to the feed bucket.

 

[Kiki]

I keep all of my feed inside.
My dogs would dare try to get into it inside but I can't trust them with it outside.

 

[ketojenn]

Got my box of Myshire eggs yesterday, getting ready to set them and get a letter in the mail from the Department of Ag. Apparently I need a permit for my quail. I had thought that was just for bobwhites, nope, all quail. I now have to send an annual inventory to the state too. Good news is I can have pheasant and partridge with my new, unwanted permit, so there's that.

I'm hoping to set those 120 eggs tonight and get some of my home grown eggs under some broodies tomorrow. I'd like a good crop of tasty morsels for the freezer before my busy season starts this fall. Once I start travelling to shows I won't have time to pay attention to the animals as much.

 

[Kiki]

Got my box of Myshire eggs yesterday, getting ready to set them and get a letter in the mail from the Department of Ag. Apparently I need a permit for my quail. I had thought that was just for bobwhites, nope, all quail. I now have to send an annual inventory to the state too. Good news is I can have pheasant and partridge with my new, unwanted permit, so there's that.

I'm hoping to set those 120 eggs tonight and get some of my home grown eggs under some broodies tomorrow. I'd like a good crop of tasty morsels for the freezer before my busy season starts this fall. Once I start travelling to shows I won't have time to pay attention to the animals as much.

What kind of shows?

 

[RUNuts]

Got my box of Myshire eggs yesterday, getting ready to set them and get a letter in the mail from the Department of Ag. Apparently I need a permit for my quail. I had thought that was just for bobwhites, nope, all quail. I now have to send an annual inventory to the state too. Good news is I can have pheasant and partridge with my new, unwanted permit, so there's that.

I'm hoping to set those 120 eggs tonight and get some of my home grown eggs under some broodies tomorrow. I'd like a good crop of tasty morsels for the freezer before my busy season starts this fall. Once I start travelling to shows I won't have time to pay attention to the animals as much.

How did the Ag department find out? Or did the letter clarify the rules after you applied for a bobwhite permit? Interesting to see how these things develop.

 

[R2elk]

Got my box of Myshire eggs yesterday, getting ready to set them and get a letter in the mail from the Department of Ag. Apparently I need a permit for my quail. I had thought that was just for bobwhites, nope, all quail. I now have to send an annual inventory to the state too. Good news is I can have pheasant and partridge with my new, unwanted permit, so there's that.

I'm hoping to set those 120 eggs tonight and get some of my home grown eggs under some broodies tomorrow. I'd like a good crop of tasty morsels for the freezer before my busy season starts this fall. Once I start traveling to shows I won't have time to pay attention to the animals as much.

It is always a good thing to know your state and local laws. Some idiot here put up an ad on the local craigslist to sell live Coturnix Quail and hatching eggs to the general public. Obviously they did not know the state laws. I would be curious to know how much trouble they got in.

You are fortunate that they allowed you to get a permit after the fact. Here the permit is required before you can get any quail. They also require an inspection of how you plan to keep them before they will issue the permit.

Good luck.

 

[ketojenn]

It's just a simple, free permit. I had thought I read that coturnix were fine and no permit was needed. She said as long as I send back my application it will be fine and she made a note that I called. Nice thing about a vast, empty state, you can get the right people on the phone pretty easy and they remember you.
It was the NPIP VS form 9-3 that gave me away.

 

[ketojenn]

What kind of shows?

Trade shows for my bath & body business. We do large shows, and a few small ones, every weekend except 2 starting in September.