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Thanks for the turkey poult info. I'll see what I can find.
I used to have quail when I was in junior high and my neighbor would pickle the eggs and her husband would take them around to different bars in Oakland and sell them for me. I have NEVER eatten a pickled egg. I do know they need to sit about a week. Longer if you can leave them alone.
I need to pick that guy's brain. Learn lots and tell me lots. LOL
I don't skin them. I pluck them. They are so small and it take me about 5 minutes, but hope that gets better later.
Someone told me if I want to really make money to raise pheasants. I need a farm. I have the largest amount of eggs from my own birds in the incubator and due the 17th. I think it was 68???? Pretty sure.
I would like to be able to supply to resturants, but have no idea how to start. Wish I still had connections at the Claremont like I used to. Thing is I was always called baby, because I was the youngest there for a long time. Plus new owners that I had issues with on what they want to do with the place that I think are horrible. I wouldn't be good at sales talk without a lecture.LOL
I also don't think I could find a place to process all the birds and get permits, but I need to build up some kind of business, because I need to bring in an income of somekind. First I need to get better hatches and hatch what I need to replace. Getting really frustrating. I had much better hatches when Bill was alive and I'm thinking that has something to do with it. I do it alone now and he was always the person I went to and talked things through with. Now it's me and I obviously don't have an answer to the questions , no matter how much I talk to myself.
I'm meeting Lemon Dro today. I wish I didn't like roos so much. Still trying to figure out where he will go, but I'll find someplace. I have an Olive Egger cockerel and a blue AM cockerel together with some others and these two run things, so I don't think I can put him in with them. Maybe sit in the yard an hour a day and let the free range together and then try the pen. Just not sure yet, but he's not getting eatten.
Ziggy doesn't like much much right now. He got out with the FBCMs the other day and I had to chase his fat butt down and then you would have thought I was killing him. He squawked like a little girl. I talked soft to him, petted him and he tried to bite me. Now he watches when I go to feed and clean and collect eggs, like I'm sizing him up or something. I need to carry him around for a couple of days so he stops being afraid. He's the description of the word chicken right now and will run and hide behind his girl with his tail stuck in the air..CHICKEN!
I only go 6 quail to hatch and had to help the last 2 out. Those usually don't make it but I have to try. Seems 4 at a time is my best. Had some clears, a bunch of quiters and there was another 5 that didn't hatch. Yeah it has to be me. My youngest daughter swears it's the house or the yard. IDK.
Oh I hear lots of unhappy quail. I have to go finish filling waterers. I forgot to get it in the last 2 brooder boxes, which BTW they completely soak 5 minutes after I clean them. Dumb birds.