Arizona Chickens

[igorsMistress]

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[SonoranChick]

No question is dumb how do you know if you don't ask

It takes about 4 quail eggs to equal 1 chicken egg. You can use them the same way you do chicken eggs but they have a different flavor. I've been looking at recipes lately. I want to pickle some and try scotch eggs among others. We're also raising them for meat, but I think they'll end up on the bbq first. 'Tis the season now that it's cooling off.

I don't like raw eggs so I never tried the shooters. Texture maybe, they're too slimey I think. Did you try them?

I did try them, they were served in a small saké shot cup with sriracha hot sauce, chopped green onion and some other sauce similar to soy sauce. You really couldn't taste the egg at all. It just went down the hatch in one gulp! They were pretty good and I know the owner paid a lot for the eggs because he had to get them specially ordered.

 

[Suzyqschickens]

@BlueBaby how long do you think it will be before Mrs. Foofy decided to lay again? She is pretty comfortable in the coop will actually let me get pretty close to her but still no eggs?

 

[DesertChic]

Well, the water was 4 inches deep in my entire chicken yard tonight. I wound up have to carry about half my flock to dry roosts (while it was still pouring outside) before locking everyone up for the night. I loved the cooler temps and cloud cover, but really could've done without the massive flooding. I have a feeling the mosquitoes are going to be killer this next week.

 

[cactusrota]

@meetthebubus I agree, I hope this heat is all done for the season. I want to be able to do a lot of work in the coop and spend some quality time with the hens, and lately it's just been too nasty outside to stay out there for very long.

@igorsMistress i have a rather dumb question...but what do you do with quail? I would assume the eggs are too small to eat (although we served quail egg shooters when I worked in a Japanese restaurant long ago!) My neighbor hunts them during quail season, and makes quail pot pie. I'm assuming you raise them for food but I'm just wondering

I don't know about the valley, but over here in Graham county it's supposed to stay below 100 from now on...

I used to sell my quail eggs to a guy that loved them as snacks. He would hard boil them and sit and peel/eat while he watched tv.
Most people I know raise them for meat. They don't have much meat on them but are very easy to process. After some practice you could feasably get one from live animal to fully processed and ready for the fry pan in as little as 3 minutes each bird. They're also the perfect meal size for those raw-feeding dogs, and are very popular as a food for raptors in all areas: wildlife rehab, education, and falconry. As well as a number of other predator type animals in captivity.

 

[cactusrota]

Well, the water was 4 inches deep in my entire chicken yard tonight. I wound up have to carry about half my flock to dry roosts (while it was still pouring outside) before locking everyone up for the night. I loved the cooler temps and cloud cover, but really could've done without the massive flooding. I have a feeling the mosquitoes are going to be killer this next week.

I've been working on maintaining my chicken yard above the level of the rest of the property to prevent that. Especially with how slimy it can get with all the chicken poo. Ofcourse now the higher ground inside the chicken pen causes problems with the gate to said pen... but oh well. Earlier this summer I raked up all the leaves and twigs under the eucalyptus tree and dumped it all in the chicken pen, letting them scratch to spread it out. It has made a huge difference in being able to walk around in there when it's wet. I'll be doing that every year, now.
A few young ones have been refusing to go in at night, preferring to sleep under the stars, so I've been going out every night to tote them into the coop hoping that one day they'd get the hint. There was a pair of Great Horned Owls here the other night and I kinda like these particular birds, despite how foolish they are... I went out to move them again in the rain tonight and only one of them was still out there getting sopping wet.. the rest decided maybe what I've been trying to show them isn't such a bad idea after all... and were all on the same perch I've been carrying them to for that past few weeks... nice and dry. I'm hoping that now that they've put themselves in there on their own, they'll start doing every night from now on...

 

[BlueBaby]

@BlueBaby how long do you think it will be before Mrs. Foofy decided to lay again? She is pretty comfortable in the coop will actually let me get pretty close to her but still no eggs?

Actually I am surprised that she hasn't started laying eggs yet. Is she molting? She was hatched out on Dec. 15th, 2017.

 

[BlueBaby]

I cracked open that huge pullet egg from earlier today. It was a double yolker.

 

[cavemanrich]

@SonoranChick
I do not have quail, but did some reading about quail egg benefits. There is much information out there. One such that I read, was the ability of children going thru Chemo, able to eat quail eggs but not chicken eggs. (they may have been allergic to chickens, but not quail)

This is interesting read, as there are so many other articles of benefits of quail eggs.
https://www.organicfacts.net/health-benefits/animal-product/quail-eggs.html

 

[igorsMistress]

Well, the water was 4 inches deep in my entire chicken yard tonight. I wound up have to carry about half my flock to dry roosts (while it was still pouring outside) before locking everyone up for the night. I loved the cooler temps and cloud cover, but really could've done without the massive flooding. I have a feeling the mosquitoes are going to be killer this next week.

Oh shoot, sorry to hear that. Hope you're all ok there DC. Skeeters are not good! We had them so bad one year after a neighbor quit taking care of their pool I thought about burning citronella by the bush.