I got a box from alaska - quail

[MissPrissy]

I will keep the coturnix. I scored me a rabbit hutch on craigslist to keep a few in.

What do you think? 6 quail in here for eggs? Or is that too many for the space?

I want to enclose the bottom with wire and take the trays out so that they have more room.

 

[ticks]

Dimensions?

 

[Mycookoonest]

Oh My Miss Prissy... that hutch is a nice one!!! I keep checking craigslist for stuff but it's been fruitless.

 

[Mrs MIA]

I'm just tickled that she's going to have my Button babies.

I really don't think she's going to be able to resist keeping them. I can watch them for hours, and when their true colors come to a rest at 5-6 weeks, she will be amazed.

I have 25 Buttons and 25 Coturnix (thanks Sam!

) in the bator right now, and a broody Bobwhite stockpiling 8 eggs so far. After that, any more quail hatching will be for eating. The very first 19 eggs that were laid by the Buttons were put in the bator - 13 hatched, and of the 6 that did not hatch, only 2 had quitters. The 25 in my 'bator right now are the ones laid after the first 19, or the 2nd week's worth. I expect good things from that hatch. Miss P got the 3rd week's worth of eggs, and the next two week's are already promised out. I expect good things from them, too, as long as the PO didn't do a number on them.

Now... having said that I'm done hatching chickens for the year, even though I don't have to worry about the heat, I have received an offer that I simply cannot refuse and will be giving the BBS orps one last hatch in another week.

I have one splash, and I think one black (either that or a verydark blue), and one or two more would allow me to start my own small flock. And again, having said that, I haven't finished my second coop and I already think I'm going to need to build either a third, or add on to the ones I have!

Miss P, here's what you have to look forward to in a couple of weeks...
Bobwhite:

Coturnix (under glass...

):

Buttons (these are from the first hatch - sibs/cousins to yours):

 

[MissPrissy]

46 in long x 24 in wide

 

[Mrs MIA]

That hutch is nice... I figure 1 sf for each quail... 3:1 hen:cock ratio...
10 would probably work ok in there, but 8 (2 cocks: 6 hens) would be perfect.

 

[ticks]

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That's nice and big maybe even 10?

 

[MissPrissy]

They are cute. I think my girls will be enraptured with them.

I'll ask this for Kim - how well do they sit on a wheat thin cracker?

 

[asher]

That hutch is AWESOME!

Mrs ~ how much do you charge for your quail eggs, if you don't mind sharing? I might be interested in purchasing some mid August once we get back from our trip if you sell them.

 

[Mrs MIA]

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Um... not very well... they don't sit still for long, unless they're napping.