Expenses for a begginer

[Farm quails]

How much would it cost to start from scratch raising about 2-4 hopefully 3 week old quails including,food,water,cages and other equipment yearly?

 

[muddy75]

How much would it cost to start from scratch raising about 2-4 hopefully 3 week old quails including,food,water,cages and other equipment yearly?

It truly depends on your set-up and location. you will need a cage which you can go with prefab from wynola ranch for $89 that includes waterer, feeder, and egg roll-out or you can build your own by repurposed material or new material. Feed costs vary but $15 per 50# average so around $100 per year in feed should be pretty fair estimate.

 

[Ravenlover]

How much would it cost to start from scratch raising about 2-4 hopefully 3 week old quails including,food,water,cages and other equipment yearly?

I think myshirefarms farms is selling a start up sets check them out

 

[Phneyda]

What are you raising them for?

 

[Farm quails]

What are you raising them for?

Mostly eggs

 

[Ebony Rose]

Quail are a pleasure to raise, require and prefer very little attention. You didn't specify what type of quail you're looking to get, so I'll toss numbers around with the type of quail that I raise, Japanese coturnix quail.

Once you have your housing expenses covered, you can expect your quail to eat just under one ounce of high quality 'game bird' feed (20% protein or higher) per bird, so you can round that up to a full ounce each to account for waste (quail are messy eaters).

I live in Panama, and my feed is running me $28 U.S. dollars for an 88 pound bag (40kg); this price is up significantly this year (probably due to covid, and I've seen that it's quite a bit higher than folks pay in the States). I refrigerate or freeze whatever I cannot use within two weeks as it's hot and humid here, the perfect environment for spoilage of improperly stored grain. I pull out what I need from the freezer as I need it; this is important as nutrition decreases as the feed ages, and ALL feed comes with insect eggs that will hatch out as the feed 'ripens' in the bag. Refrigeration slows the 'ripening' process, freezing stops the process. The cost of storing their feed is not included in my tabulation as I run the fridge & freezer regardless.

One 88 pound bag (40kg) offers 1408 meals, and at my inflated prices due to my location & the pandemic, rounds up to about 2 cents per serving. This one bag almost covers your entire needs for the year, as it provides enough servings for 3.85 birds daily (within the number of birds you were hoping for). You can eliminate some of the waste by placing a cookie sheet or other similar dish under their feeding dish to catch what would have been wasted feed and dumping that back into their dish in the morning as you top up the food and change their water.

It takes a quail 26 hours to produce one egg; and most quail are more prolific layers if they have a boyfriend (just saying, you're going to have one mouth to feed that isn't directly producing eggs, but will increase your yield).

So the number of eggs produced will assume that you have one cock and three hens:
24 hours in a day by 365 days in a year, multiplied by 3 hens and divided by 26 hours to produce an egg = just over one thousand eggs per year.

 

[Farm quails]

Quail are a pleasure to raise, require and prefer very little attention. You didn't specify what type of quail you're looking to get, so I'll toss numbers around with the type of quail that I raise, Japanese coturnix quail.

Once you have your housing expenses covered, you can expect your quail to eat just under one ounce of high quality 'game bird' feed (20% protein or higher) per bird, so you can round that up to a full ounce each to account for waste (quail are messy eaters).

I live in Panama, and my feed is running me $28 U.S. dollars for an 88 pound bag (40kg); this price is up significantly this year (probably due to covid, and I've seen that it's quite a bit higher than folks pay in the States). I refrigerate or freeze whatever I cannot use within two weeks as it's hot and humid here, the perfect environment for spoilage of improperly stored grain. I pull out what I need from the freezer as I need it; this is important as nutrition decreases as the feed ages, and ALL feed comes with insect eggs that will hatch out as the feed 'ripens' in the bag. Refrigeration slows the 'ripening' process, freezing stops the process. The cost of storing their feed is not included in my tabulation as I run the fridge & freezer regardless.

One 88 pound bag (40kg) offers 1408 meals, and at my inflated prices due to my location & the pandemic, rounds up to about 2 cents per serving. This one bag almost covers your entire needs for the year, as it provides enough servings for 3.85 birds daily (within the number of birds you were hoping for). You can eliminate some of the waste by placing a cookie sheet or other similar dish under their feeding dish to catch what would have been wasted feed and dumping that back into their dish in the morning as you top up the food and change their water.

It takes a quail 26 hours to produce one egg; and most quail are more prolific layers if they have a boyfriend (just saying, you're going to have one mouth to feed that isn't directly producing eggs, but will increase your yield).

So the number of eggs produced will assume that you have one cock and three hens:
24 hours in a day by 365 days in a year, multiplied by 3 hens and divided by 26 hours to produce an egg = just over one thousand eggs per year.

How susceptible are coturnix quail to illness caused by weather change ?

 

[Ebony Rose]

How susceptible are coturnix quail to illness caused by weather change ?

Keep them out of drafts and direct adverse weather conditions and they fare very well as they are hardy birds. They will require sufficient cover to shield themselves from the elements. If you experience extremely cold winters, you can expect your birds to consume 25 percent more feed. As for simple 'weather change', I really am unable to address that as we only have two seasons in Panama; Wet and Dry. It's pretty much High 70's to Low 90's Fahrenheit year round and around the clock.