HERE is where we are going to talk about a sustainable meat bird flock

[CARS]

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Winner! Winner! She gets a chicken dinner!!!!! Thank god....

OK, let's continue

 

[CARS]

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Good for you with the CX's. I know it hurts, but you'll learn alot in the process.

You have a very diverse flock/herd!

 

[Buster52]

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It isn't.

 

[TimG]

Edited: included first and second hand experience and that seems to be against the rules.

 

[CARS]

My god Tim and Buster! Re-read my first post. If you have nothing to add from YOUR experiences stay the heck out of this. I don't want talkers, I want doers!

 

[Over Easy in Adna]

(Sorry Mods)

I had a longer response, then I read it again and realized it would result in my being banned from BYC.

 

[pringle]

Lol I was joking about the quail not beng mentioned.And please people stop talking about you know what!They grow fast so what?They taste way blander then birds taking a longer time to raise,they actually develop FLAVOR.

 

[Overeasyplz]

pringle, I am trying to build a big Jumbo coturnix quail, myself. I have a rainbow of colors, today the biggest chicks went outside in their pen for the first time. They are 6 weeks old, no eggs yet. I have a huge tibetian colored hen, and a big gold male that will make it to the final breeding flock. I haven't started weighing them yet, I'm waiting for the magic ten week mark.

 

[CARS]

OK. Let's get back on the subject. I mentioned my spring Buckeye project but I have "gone through the cycle of life" with quail too.

I tried raising, breeding, culling, incubating, eating (meat and eggs) the "Texas A&M" cornunix quail and found they were not for me. I am going to switch to Bob's this summer and see if I like them better. They are going to take twice as long, which may not make sense to many of you, but I like white meat. And the Bobs have that. (If you search in the quail section, you can read many of my mis-adventures)

I will hatch eggs when they start laying (which may be a year or so from what I read) to keep the flock going because I plan on eating these guys!

I have some banties that seem quite broody, maybe instead of using an incubator I will use some of the farm's "eye candy". That would be a "renewable resource" wouldn't it??

 

[95yj]

this post has me really interested, i'm experimenting with sustainable poultry flocks, i don't have enough time/money/land/etc. to use chickens so i'm substituting quail which will be tractored. Unfortunately i ended up with a pair of useless bobwhites and am looking for some coturnix. but my plan is basicaly the same as everyone elses, start with a pair or trio, hatch LOTS of eggs, keep almost all the hens and a few of the bigger males, etc. I have have a tractor i plan on using for the males that are gonna be butchered, a goodly sized aviary i can keep the breeders in, and cages if i need to split up pairs. Now i just need the birds.