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CovidtimeQuail
Highly quailified
I sold a full hatch once. It was a quick & easy transition. Not sure why I don't do it more often. There's definitely a shortage of quail available to the average buyer here. You have to know who breeds them to get them.I find that making sure you have a variety of all your colors in each hatch group so they are used to all of the colors from hatch. I’ve noticed that the tuxes and silvers tend to pick on the scarlets and Italians, they don’t like gingers I guess, but if I have reds in their hatch group, they usually end up ok. I was culling and eating my males, and selling them as snake food, but I’ve found my snake food customers are terrible about being on time and not showing at all, now I take them 90 minutes away to an auction every few weeks. I make less this way, but it’s nice to dump 100 birds/chicks of various ages and genders, all at once, and getting 80-90+ bux.
I'm sure after I recuperate from this last set I'll start up the incubator again. The going rate here for chicks can range from $5 to $20 each, so I guess I'm just not ambitious enough.