friendly coturnix?

[TwoCrows]

The more I read this thread, I am thinking about butchering my Bobwhites and hatching some Coturnix!

 

[Denninmi]

Mine act, literally, like little chickens, running up to the front of the pen to see what I'm bringing them. I have no issues at all walking in around them, except that I'm afraid I'm going to step on one because they stay underfoot. A few times, I've had a couple get out when I was going in or out of the run and had the door open, and they just kind of sit there, pick at the mulch, and wait for me to come pick them up and put them back.

Really, they are sweet-natured little birds.

I don't have any aggression problems, either. They have a lot of room, places to hide if someone gets too aggressive. The hens have some feathers missing from the heads and necks from mating, but no one has ever been scalped as other species of quail are prone to do to each other.

 

[Fat Daddy]

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Before you do that. Put on the white lab coat and cook cots and bobs side by side and plate them up the same way. Thats the way to decide your quail of choice. I did this, this week end. I have eaten both, A LOT, and was still surprised....I had never tried them side by side. I like both, but there is not a question as which bird eats better. Bill

 

[JJMR794]

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Before you do that. Put on the white lab coat and cook cots and bobs side by side and plate them up the same way. Thats the way to decide your quail of choice. I did this, this week end. I have eaten both, A LOT, and was still surprised....I had never tried them side by side. I like both, but there is not a question as which bird eats better. Bill

 

[akcountrygrrl]

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Much like heroin, quail may become addicting... I had a hatching problem for a while, quail on my back as it were... But Im feelin much better now...Ooo is that a pip!!!....

I just put... ahem, cough, cough, 10 dozen Coturnix eggs in the 'bator last night. And, no, the 'bator didn't already have 2 1/2 dozen mixed Blue Scale, Gambel, and Bob White eggs and 2 dozen mixed pheasant eggs in it.... They just kind of suddenly appeared...

 

[TwoCrows]

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Much like heroin, quail may become addicting... I had a hatching problem for a while, quail on my back as it were... But Im feelin much better now...Ooo is that a pip!!!....

I just put... ahem, cough, cough, 10 dozen Coturnix eggs in the 'bator last night. And, no, the 'bator didn't already have 2 1/2 dozen mixed Blue Scale, Gambel, and Bob White eggs and 2 dozen mixed pheasant eggs in it.... They just kind of suddenly appeared...

WOW! You ARE an addict! Do you want me to call someone for you? Set up an appointment for a good poultry "head specialist"?

You are going to be swimming in birds soon!

 

[akcountrygrrl]

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I just put... ahem, cough, cough, 10 dozen Coturnix eggs in the 'bator last night. And, no, the 'bator didn't already have 2 1/2 dozen mixed Blue Scale, Gambel, and Bob White eggs and 2 dozen mixed pheasant eggs in it.... They just kind of suddenly appeared...

WOW! You ARE an addict! Do you want me to call someone for you? Set up an appointment for a good poultry "head specialist"?

You are going to be swimming in birds soon!

It's that whole 50% rule for shipped eggs. Get at least twice as many eggs as you would like birds to hatch out so that you are covered for all of the ever so gentle handling the Post Office gives to boxes marked "Fragile, hatching eggs." I was extremely (but pleasantly) surprised when I opened up the box yesterday that there was not a single broken or cracked egg yet the box was 2 inches shorter and 3 inches wider than it's original dimensions.

Actually, I'll end up only overwintering a couple pairs of each. The rest will be sold to guys who are training their hunting dogs. And to people who want "gourmet" quail and pheasant meat. I have regular egg buyers as well and a feed store that is wanting to sell young quail in the spring. Yep, I found a market (and an excuse to put eggs in the 'bator)...

 

[aprophet]

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Much like heroin, quail may become addicting... I had a hatching problem for a while, quail on my back as it were... But Im feelin much better now...Ooo is that a pip!!!....

I just put... ahem, cough, cough, 10 dozen Coturnix eggs in the 'bator last night. And, no, the 'bator didn't already have 2 1/2 dozen mixed Blue Scale, Gambel, and Bob White eggs and 2 dozen mixed pheasant eggs in it.... They just kind of suddenly appeared...

I am putting fewer corturnix in the bator these days but I just put 60 + gamble in 2 different bators with a few Blue scales before they shut down I do not have but 40-50 coturnix in right now LOL and oh yea I have 60 BW in one bator . for me it really depends on the individual bird I have one gamble male he has found out that when he "talks to me food appears when I walk back to the birds he meets me at the cage I have a coupla of BW hens that kina meet me at the front of the cage before I can get the water bottle reattatched they bite lick the water off my fingers

 

[Fat Daddy]

Wow, thats a lot of birds... I know you got chukars and other birds too. Must be a real avian expo in prophetville!!! Bill

 

[Denninmi]

It is a sickness, I tell you. Right now, I've got 2 Brinseas going (on the floor, so I can't dump them by accident like the last time!) 2 Sebie eggs, 5 duck, 3 turkey, and last night added 20 African Harlequin Quail eggs I just got yesterday. The second one has 45 Chukar eggs out of 48 shipped and set July 4. 1 of the 48 was rotten, 2 were clear. I cracked one while candling when I put it back and hit the metal rail, so I taped it, probably will just rot but you never know. 44 out of 48 shipped would be awesome.

After this, time to do another batch of Coturnix.