Let's plan a Quail egg hatch... set 'em Sept. 1, hatch 'em Sept 17-19+

[saddina]

I'm saddi, oldtimers know me. Been in quail for 3 or 4 years now, household consumption mainly.

 

[Stellar]

Is this the quailaholics thread too??

if so my name is quaillady, people know me by Alex and I am a quailaholic. There I admit it, now going to my dungeon with my eggs

OK since y'all started chanting about yourselves I will talk about myself LOL.

I am owner of Stellar Gamebirds, Poultry, Waterfowl. Been raising Gamebirds for 6 years now, started in 2005 when I moved from Chicago to Oregon for college. Learned a heck of a lot about Coturnix and joined in on labwork during that time (when I was supposed to be studying to be a vet...;OOPS!

) I received my first coturnix from the lab (Stella) and then purchased a lot of breeders from a lady. Bred in my apartment and sold eggs to neighbors and friends. I got my diploma in 2009 and moved home to Chicago and that became Fort Myers FL where I could have Chickens and ducks too...and here I am today

and ok ok a photo...and I am a lady LOL

 

[syble]

i've raised chickens for about 15 years (since i was a kid), did 4-h and grew a bit of everything. only recently did i come across quail. I like the idea at least of less food, and egg laying machines that can be eaten

I've gotten a fey young birds and am getting eggs from them and have hatched out my first batch of jumbos primarily for the freezer but out of 40 or so plan to keep a quad or so for future breeding. I tend to be addictive lol. started with a couple colors now i want like 12 pens all different... I have just set my first batch of coturnix eggs collected from my own birds! Due on the 14th. I think that will officially put me in the quail madness group haha.
Thanks
Sib

 

[TwoCrows]

Hello from Twocrowsranch in the high mountainous region of south central New Mexico! I have only been on the forums for a short time now, but have learned so much from you folks about the different Quail breeds. After years of gathering way too many indoor Parrots, my bird obsession moved to watching the wild Gamble's Quail amble about the low desert floors of the southwest. Their cute little top knots bouncing out in front of them. Those adoring calls they have.

I knew then that I was developing desires for Quail!

After moving to higher altitudes, I began my Bobwhite collection 5 years ago and after surviving a long hatching addiction, my Quail collection has grown to epidemic proportions.

But the "Fowl" obsession continues to grow and I am now getting into chickens! I am trying ever so hard right now to be patient for my 5 month old Australorp girls to start laying eggs. I can barely take it.

Well since everyone else is posting their mug shots here, then here is a pic of me with my babies when they were only 3 month old. Super lap chickens!

 

[yinepu]

I guess I need to do one of these too...

I've had chickens all of my life (51 years).. and quail off and on over the years.. got my first group back in the early 80's.. moved and they all went to freezer camp.. got them again about 10 years ago and kept them out in hutches in my chicken pen (yeah i know... too close to chickens).. but they did fine (ok so I was probably lucky).. but it was safer than letting them stay in hutches out in the yard with my neighbor's crazed beagle running about.. at least that darn dog never managed to find a way into the big coop and pen... He did manage to kill every single young chicken I had in another small coop and in a hutch.. so I wasn't about to take any chances with my quail and the other birds. We figured having them near chickens was a gamble.. but the beagle was a definite problem.. so we chose the lesser of two evils.. personally I would have loved to have used him as shark bait... but as usual.. that was frowned upon in polite society...

Anyway.. I have 57 eggs in the bator now (shipped eggs).. they are due to hatch out around the 7th.... it was 60 but a few arrived broken.. and i had one stinker in the mix... so down to 57.. lately shipped eggs look as if the postal service has used them in some sporting event.. so keeping my fingers crossed that I have something hatch

I have 50 jumbo eggs coming in time for the September 1st set date... so hopefully the heat and the post office is kinder to those eggs

Needless to say I am looking forward to having quail again (even though my husband doesnt share my enthusiasm).. and these little guys will probably reside inside my home in rabbit cages since we have chickens and turkeys everywhere else!

 

[gamebirdboy]

Well, I'm Robert and I've been raising quail for about 3 years. I was coming back from hunting one day, and I wanted to raise animals. So, I figured birds would be good. I couldn't have chickens at the time so I narrowed it down to quail, dove, or pigeons. I read about different kinds of quail first. After finding out about how efficient coturnix were and how they were great beginner birds I chose them. After I got the hang of coturnix I started looking for chicken breeds. I found Buff Orpingtons and liked them the best. Big birds that are good layers. So, I bought 12 chicks locally. Raised them up and sold them at a fair. Kept my 4 favorite hens and then I bought 2 RIR's, after that I kept buying more Orpingtons. Then I got hooked on silkies about a year ago. Bought some from Cackle and I've been breeding them since.
And here's a picture....

 

[JJMR794]

FOR THE ROOKIES....

(PICTURED IN CENTER)

I'M JJ, OWNER, OPERATOR, AND CHIEF MAINTENANCE MAN, CEO, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER, VICE PRESIDENT OF QUALITY CONTROL ,HATCHMASTER, TREASURER FOR JM GAMEFARM, STATE AND FEDERALLY LICENCED GAME BREEDER/ DEALOR. ALSO PROMOTIONAL STAFFER AND CONTRIBUTING VIDEO EDITOR FOR DARKWOODS OUTDOORS. HAVING BEEN BORN AND RAISED A KY FARM KID I WAS ALWAYS AROUND ALL SORTS OF DOMESTICALLY RAISED ANIMALS BUT WAS PARTICULARLY TAKEN WITH GIANT COCHINS MY GRANDMOTHER KEPT, STILL RAISE MANY COLOR VARIETIES OF THEM TO THIS DAY, ALONG WITH BLUE SLATE TURKEYS AND VARIOUS WILD TURKEY STRAINS. BEING AN AVID HUNTER IT WAS ONLY NATURAL MY HOBBIES COMBINED AND TOOK ME INTO GAMEBIRD PROPAGATION A COUPLE OF DECADES AGO. WE SPECIALIZE IN FERTILE EGGS FOR HATCHING IN MANY SPECES AND STRAINS OF GAMEBIRD AND MIGRATORY WATERFOWL

 

[MobyQuail]

good job everyone! great pictures!

keep it up.

btw, I want to thank all of you here for helping me to learn along the way, I do enjoy reading about your starts and experiences and appreciate your contributions to the Quail knowledge.

 

[wolftracks]

I'm Kim. I live in the California Central Valley. Been here for 2 years after spending most of my life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Boy do I miss the cooler weather there. So hot here if you wanna go fishing you have to bring your own water.

I hatched and raised my first quail in elementery school. Nope not tell how long ago that was. But also hatched out my first chickens then too. From store bought eggs in a shoe box with my lamp from my night stand. Hatched 2 out of 3. Would have been better if I knew what I know now though. Still won a state science fair. Raised exotics off and on over the decade but for 4 of those my main thing was breeding and showing dogs. Had a few chickens here and there, but a few years ago I started in again and this time got into breeding. Just got back into quail a few months ago. Need more pens. My husband was a sweetheart and always built me nice coops, but died right after we moved in here. So I have ghetto coops, but whatever works. Now I'm working on my quail housing and rabbit hutches.

I did process my first quail a few week ago. It wasn't on purpose. The new waterer leaked and 2 didn't make it through heatstroke. As bad as I felt I wasn't wasting them, so to the freezer they went. Now I have 4 breeding groups and about 20 more growing out and eggs in the bator. Also trying to decide. Process or sell extra roos to pay for feed. Think the feed is the winner. I'll process when the rest of you do through here.

 

[shelleyd2008]

I'm Shelley. Currently I live in southern KY; originally from northern IN. Recently transplanted from the Tampa, FL area. I started my 'bird' endeavor with a few bantam chickens to 'take care of the ticks'. The few (6) bantams turned into over 50 chickens, 4 ducks, and 5 guineas in a few months' time. Then I found BYC. I started hatching eggs from my chickens, then learned of the ability to order eggs to hatch over the internet

I was hooked.

My first step into the world of gamebirds started with an order of button and coturnix (supposedly A&M but they were not) eggs. I hatched a total of 3: 1 button and 2 coturnix. Of course all were male, and I couldn't very well have 1 lone male button, so I ordered more.

Currently I raise coturnix quail, button quail, ringneck pheasants, and 1 lone red golden pheasant in gamebirds, plus numerous ducks, geese, chickens, guineas, doves, and pigeons. Last count had me at over 200 birds but I think I've brought it down pretty good since then. Who knows, I could be wrong

You all want to see what I look like? Okay, but you have to promise not to laugh...

I wish!


ETA: The real me. This is an old pic (about 6 years ago) but I don't take pics of myself all too much.