Ok, I am getting to many requests from FL and I want my eggs to go out all over the place. I actually was going to just get them to Texans and trying to figure a way to get packaging to mail them. But I want a few opinions on a few things and Diggypaws started this so thought way not.
So here is a list of states that are already getting them.
Also, so you know 2 of these people are breeders, 1 has worked in breeding chickens and worked with formulating Poultry Feed, others sell their birds and some raise them for meat and 1 is just starting out. That's why I commented about the cages and not going out to buy quail trays for a turner. Its just not necessary, but an incubator is.
Here goes:
Tx -3 and they were on the list before this list even started, but they have to be mailed not p/u or delivered.
FL- 2
MO -1
IL -1
OK - 1
AR -1
TN -1
PA -1
12 - 9 =3 available cartons left, for 2 dozen eggs to be mailed at the time of your Spring. Unless someone drops out and decided not to get my eggs. It is possible. I am pulling eggs for my hatch that I will set 12/15th then giving the girls a break. I may not have many fertile eggs, it is going to freeze tonight and has been cold last few days. No foam on the you know what, tonight.
I could have set soom older eggs, until the neighbors daughter came over and asked for eggs for food. Got their food stamps cut off. Please check with your neighbors and make sure the have food in their frig's. I think I am going to clean out my freezer real early this year and pass some chicken and quail around.
So how many of you are joining Diggys Jumbo CO-OP and who is coordinating? Doesn't matter if you get my eggs or not, have a sub group.
Are you CO-OPers going to have a sub group that you trade these eggs with so they can get them in their blood lines. Coarse you have to see what they are first.
How about other people that have Jumbos already and want them more consistent is size, or are just starting their own lines and want some tips sooner. I don;t know lots of reasons to join a Co-Op for Jumbos.
For the eggs that I send, I have set goals for them to achieve, and they have met those goals, here. They are not easy goals to reach. That is why I suggest that you raise them close to how I do. I would suggest that you plan on weighing at 6-7-8 weeks and there is a range of the weight goals set for each week to acheive. The birds to small should be removed to other grow out pens if possible, though it is not necessary. As your birds make your set goals as generations go on, the goals will need to be increased. I have already increased my since I started actually raising quail.
After the holidays I will work on writing up instruction sheets for raising them and send them (I will need e-mail's I quess to everyone on the list for my eggs). Ya, its long and windy and some of you will skip over the reading, but a lot of it you already know but not the WHY to do it that way. Problem is, very few of you that want the eggs are raising your birds this way. So it will be interesting to see if the New to Quail ends up with just as large birds. I think it is very possible.
This way you have some time to make changes if necessary, nothing drastic. All of this has been talked about on the quail topic threads, just the reasons are different or not known, or forgotten. So a lot of people are using other methods and are not able to get or keep the Jumbos at their size.
These are not breeding instructions. Just instructions on how to raise Jumbo Coturnix and I hope it works for you and it does explain why they are raised a little differently then the Pharoah size birds. If you have tall cages, shorten them to 12", use a tarp or blanket clipped to the inside just to experiment for the growout. I will admit that my growout cage is 18" tall and it worked. But I would not have anything higher, and I am thinking about shortening my grow out cage cause those boys like to flit around and that is not acceptable, we want to have more bigger boys to choose from for breeders. (The girls like the big boys if given a choice).
Rozzie are you helping diggypaws out on some of this? Or is someone else? She asked for help with coordinating and all the typing that is going to be involved. I can see where someone is going to need to coordinate, track who is getting what and when (different areas of the country, different times of the year, different levels of experience, maybe even different experiments with breeding situations). Oh, the logistics should be right up Rozzies alley and she needs to keep busy, anyway.
edited to add TN and PA so make that 12 -11 =1 pkg available.
So here is a list of states that are already getting them.
Also, so you know 2 of these people are breeders, 1 has worked in breeding chickens and worked with formulating Poultry Feed, others sell their birds and some raise them for meat and 1 is just starting out. That's why I commented about the cages and not going out to buy quail trays for a turner. Its just not necessary, but an incubator is.
Here goes:
Tx -3 and they were on the list before this list even started, but they have to be mailed not p/u or delivered.
FL- 2
MO -1
IL -1
OK - 1
AR -1
TN -1
PA -1
12 - 9 =3 available cartons left, for 2 dozen eggs to be mailed at the time of your Spring. Unless someone drops out and decided not to get my eggs. It is possible. I am pulling eggs for my hatch that I will set 12/15th then giving the girls a break. I may not have many fertile eggs, it is going to freeze tonight and has been cold last few days. No foam on the you know what, tonight.
I could have set soom older eggs, until the neighbors daughter came over and asked for eggs for food. Got their food stamps cut off. Please check with your neighbors and make sure the have food in their frig's. I think I am going to clean out my freezer real early this year and pass some chicken and quail around.
So how many of you are joining Diggys Jumbo CO-OP and who is coordinating? Doesn't matter if you get my eggs or not, have a sub group.
Are you CO-OPers going to have a sub group that you trade these eggs with so they can get them in their blood lines. Coarse you have to see what they are first.
How about other people that have Jumbos already and want them more consistent is size, or are just starting their own lines and want some tips sooner. I don;t know lots of reasons to join a Co-Op for Jumbos.
For the eggs that I send, I have set goals for them to achieve, and they have met those goals, here. They are not easy goals to reach. That is why I suggest that you raise them close to how I do. I would suggest that you plan on weighing at 6-7-8 weeks and there is a range of the weight goals set for each week to acheive. The birds to small should be removed to other grow out pens if possible, though it is not necessary. As your birds make your set goals as generations go on, the goals will need to be increased. I have already increased my since I started actually raising quail.
After the holidays I will work on writing up instruction sheets for raising them and send them (I will need e-mail's I quess to everyone on the list for my eggs). Ya, its long and windy and some of you will skip over the reading, but a lot of it you already know but not the WHY to do it that way. Problem is, very few of you that want the eggs are raising your birds this way. So it will be interesting to see if the New to Quail ends up with just as large birds. I think it is very possible.
This way you have some time to make changes if necessary, nothing drastic. All of this has been talked about on the quail topic threads, just the reasons are different or not known, or forgotten. So a lot of people are using other methods and are not able to get or keep the Jumbos at their size.
These are not breeding instructions. Just instructions on how to raise Jumbo Coturnix and I hope it works for you and it does explain why they are raised a little differently then the Pharoah size birds. If you have tall cages, shorten them to 12", use a tarp or blanket clipped to the inside just to experiment for the growout. I will admit that my growout cage is 18" tall and it worked. But I would not have anything higher, and I am thinking about shortening my grow out cage cause those boys like to flit around and that is not acceptable, we want to have more bigger boys to choose from for breeders. (The girls like the big boys if given a choice).
Rozzie are you helping diggypaws out on some of this? Or is someone else? She asked for help with coordinating and all the typing that is going to be involved. I can see where someone is going to need to coordinate, track who is getting what and when (different areas of the country, different times of the year, different levels of experience, maybe even different experiments with breeding situations). Oh, the logistics should be right up Rozzies alley and she needs to keep busy, anyway.
edited to add TN and PA so make that 12 -11 =1 pkg available.
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