My little grandson.

[Tex452]

I put these in the brooder this morning, the wife said it’s 12 total with more hatching.

 

[Tex452]

22 so far and more pipping.

 

[Tex452]

Plus I have quail hatching, 18 so far with more pipping

 

[WingItRanch]

That's a lot of chicks! Are these for eggs or meat or both? Or do you sell the chicks?

 

[Tex452]

That's a lot of chicks! Are these for eggs or meat or both? Or do you sell the chicks?

These are Wyandotte, it started as a hobby, but now my DL wants to try and sell some.
I have butchered some of the cockerels that I hatched, I gave the pullets to whoever gives me eggs.
I hatched over 150 quail this summer, I gave 40 chicks to a friend last week, the rest I will butcher for the family to eat, my son got me started hatching quail because he loves to eat them.

 

[WingItRanch]

These are Wyandotte, it started as a hobby, but now my DL wants to try and sell some.
I have butchered some of the cockerels that I hatched, I gave the pullets to whoever gives me eggs.
I hatched over 150 quail this summer, I gave 40 chicks to a friend last week, the rest I will butcher for the family to eat, my son got me started hatching quail because he loves to eat them.

That's great! I've considered getting meat quail in the future.

What a fun hobby. I have 18 hens myself and sell the eggs to coworkers. One of my hens just hatched 3 babies so hoping for a flock rooster.

I have butchered a cockerel before and think I could do meat birds in the future when I have more time. It took me a pretty long time to prep, pluck, and butcher a cockerel but I had never done it before so was stopping and starting a YouTube video. I imagine it's easier and faster with practice. I always wondered if it's harder or easier with quail due to their smaller size.

 

[Tex452]

That's great! I've considered getting meat quail in the future.

What a fun hobby. I have 18 hens myself and sell the eggs to coworkers. One of my hens just hatched 3 babies so hoping for a flock rooster.

I have butchered a cockerel before and think I could do meat birds in the future when I have more time. It took me a pretty long time to prep, pluck, and butcher a cockerel but I had never done it before so was stopping and starting a YouTube video. I imagine it's easier and faster with practice. I always wondered if it's harder or easier with quail due to their smaller size.

Quail are really easy so is chicken, we grew up butchering our own chickens, mama would tell me how many she wanted butchered, so when I got home from school I would have it done before she got home from work, sometimes it was a dozen or so.
I butcher quail the same way I do chicken.

 

[Tex452]

I think I ended up with 27-28 chicks out of 30 eggs
And about 30 quail out of 36 eggs.
It was a good hatch