Sorry, I wanted to answer “Ha!” To this question, which wouldn’t be very polite but maybe realistic. On paper and YouTube videos they certainly look profitable, and if you can find your niche market, maybe they are, but after 2 years in quail and selling eggs online, selling eggs and chicks locally, etc, etc we manage to break even only because I give myself a $4/week egg allowance (what I would otherwise spend on grocery store eggs). Raise quail because you enjoy it (like any hobby!) not because you want to make money, it is really nice if you do, but you’ll make way more per hour driving for Uber or whatever than raising critters. I write books too, but if I calculated how much I have made selling ebooks vs how much time I spent doing it, well starving artist isn’t just a catchy phrase! Most of the great artists and composers of history were fairly poor in their lifetimes and only became famous after they were dead a century or two. Do it because it is a passion, not because somebody on YouTube told you it is the next ostrich or Alpaca craze. I love quail but it is an awful lot of work for a couple bucks profit, rather it is a labor of love! Not trying to rain on your parade, just hope you have a realistic view of quail ranching! My son always tells me I kill his dreams, but he does need a backup plan to Major League Baseball if it doesn’t work out, which it won’t! He thinks he’s going to make it big with a pair of red golden pheasants in my garage too…at least I don’t have room for emus!
That's partly why I want to try out quail. Even a little extra money would greatly help. But it would probably just be a hobby in the beginning.
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