North Carolina

[MaryRuthLangdon]

BHep - We bought our 3 adult Quail and some hatching eggs from Sumner-Byrd Farm, Inc. in Holly Springs.
Miss Lydia - They are Golden Range Quail, Tuxedo Quail, Japenese Pharoh Quail, and Texas A & M Quail.

Thanks everyone... I am loving the tiny, little chickies.... we lost a couple of them early this morning, but the 5 that made it through today are fluttering and running all over their box.

 

[BHep]

BHep - We bought our 3 adult Quail and some hatching eggs from Sumner-Byrd Farm, Inc. in Holly Springs.
Miss Lydia - They are Golden Range Quail, Tuxedo Quail, Japenese Pharoh Quail, and Texas A & M Quail.

Thanks everyone... I am loving the tiny, little chickies.... we lost a couple of them early this morning, but the 5 that made it through today are fluttering and running all over their box.

Super nice gentleman at that farm !! I have gotten hatching eggs there also !!

 

[MaryRuthLangdon]

Super nice gentleman at that farm !! I have gotten hatching eggs there also !!

He is very nice and really knowlegable & helpful.

 

[BHep]

And he has a MEAN goose !!

 

[ramirezframing]

So while DH was at the school with Logan (DS#1) for his speech therapy, Korbin(DS#2) and I fed the critters. I fed the dog, let the goats out, then got the feed for the chickens ready. Got into the chicken pen and put their feed in their feeder then looked around for eggs. The 2 RIRs we have are approximately 31-32 weeks old by my calculations. So technically they should be of laying age but we have seen no eggs yet.

When I was done in the chicken lot I was attempting to get out and had a problem. Our chicken lot has a gate lock on it and we had hooked up a string so that we could open it from the inside too. There are also 2 pieces of wood on the outside of the door that were what kept the door closed before we put the latch on it (they could be turned to keep the door shut). Well I pulled the string to open the gate latch and it broke!

So I figured out how to put my hand through the wire enough to get the latch open, then go to push the door and it won't open. Korbin was standing outside the door and has turned one of the wood pieces and keeping the door from opening. I tried to tell him how to turn the wood to allow the door to open, but he kept getting it wrong.

So I'm standing there waiting on DH to get home so that I can be rescued from the chicken coop! About the time DH pulled into the drive way I figured out how to move the pieces of wood so that I could open the door.

After all that I was able to feed the goats.

We are planning to work on the nesting boxes this weekend to make them more appealing. Actually there is a lot we plan to get done this weekend hopefully. We have to get Christmas decorations, and canning supplies took to storage, the dog's lot really needs to be cleaned out as well. Hopefully it all gets done. We have been saying the Christmas decorations are going out to the building for 2 weeks now, yet they are still sitting in the living room taking up space!

lol I feel your pain.

I've been locked in a few of mine thanks to kids. Manage to get out of them all, but the main chicken house. It has a padlock with a turning head that one of the kids did up. Had to call DH on the cell phone to get me out because said kid ran off!

 

[ramirezframing]

Sorry about you pheasant hen Beth

 

[HenThymes]

Love my coturnix quail!!!

Here is what we made over the weekend, our first try so I made a plain and a spicy. The spicy are mild and really awesome.

 

[BHep]

No recipe ! ??? Did you just use the pickling stuff in the package ? Did you seal the can or do you keep them in the fridge ?

 

[ramirezframing]

I forgot to say

Sutton, glad to see you made it here

 

[HenThymes]

I found the recipe in the quail section, actually put "pickled quail eggs" in the search box up top and three popped up.

No ready made mix here, we just don't like their taste

, recipes are very simple. I use a lightly boiled brine poured over the eggs and it will vacuum seal.