North Carolina

[Hollowoakfarm]

Quail question....to raise quail in NC, do you need the Gamebird license or the Ag Pen-raised quail license....or both?

 

[Miss Lydia]

Congrats on all the new chickies hatching Ya'll, and that Lavey is the cutest Beth, can you stick it in a box and send it this way please?? and thank you! I have a question what would a silkie and a frizzle chick look like? or is that to strange to imagine? Also congrats to Beth for the Country boy FC!! how sweet.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Quail question....to raise quail in NC, do you need the Gamebird license or the Ag Pen-raised quail license....or both?

Depends on what type of quail you are raising I think. You can't raise native species without a Gamebird I don't think. If you raise a non-native species of Bobwhite or Coturnix you just need a pen-raised quail license and if you plan to sell eggs or live birds you need a hatchery/dealer license (25 a year) Best course of action call the Ag department and talk to someone about everything you need, and how to go about doing it. I do not know for sure ALL the legalities.

 

[TarheelBirdy]

The effectiveness of The Staring Method of Hatching has not yet been proven. I personally have done hours of research and have not yet come to any conclusive findings of the effects of staring on hatching eggs. Keep staring and let us know your own results.

Congratulations to everyone on ALL your new hatches. Love the new little guinea....nothing cuter than a guinea keet sleeping position...FLAT. Although I still get that little twinge (is it DEAD?) everytime I see them doing that.

I am on lockdown with 41 BW quail eggs to hatch this weekend. Here is our brooder setup:

Pictured here: the tub itself (snatched from the paddock and scrubbed and disinfected). Red heat lamp on a camera tripod. Also , as you can see, our brooder has it's own "Security Guard," pictured here in all his intimidating alertness. Anyway, we have puppy pads in the bottom of the brooder, then a fitted sheet in it to line it, and then we will add shavings. We put the locked-down incubator right inside the brooder, up on blocks for good ventilation, so when we transfer the chicks out, we won't have any free-range runners in the house.



These were the eggs when they arrived from Lake Cumberland Game birds. Ordered 50, got 55, none damaged. Candled at 15 days, discarded 14, left with 41.

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

The effectiveness of The Staring Method of Hatching has not yet been proven. I personally have done hours of research and have not yet come to any conclusive findings of the effects of staring on hatching eggs. Keep staring and let us know your own results.

Congratulations to everyone on ALL your new hatches. Love the new little guinea....nothing cuter than a guinea keet sleeping position...FLAT. Although I still get that little twinge (is it DEAD?) everytime I see them doing that.

I am on lockdown with 41 BW quail eggs to hatch this weekend. Here is our brooder setup:

Have you ever raised quail before?
If you think guinea keet sleeping arrangements are bad wait till you go peek in on the quail and find them all in their "dead sleep" - I raised a bunch last year and I tell you I will NEVER get over the way some of them sleep. Some lay out like the guinea, but the quail trip me out - they lay flat on their bellies, head to the side, eyes closed, with their legs sticking STRAIGHT OUT behind them like they are stiff and dead... I have to scare the crap out of them and tap the side of the brooder when I would have 5 or 6 like that, and they'd all jolt up and take off to the other side of the brooder. I felt bad but was validated in the fact they were just dead asleep and not dead.

 

[HenThymes]

Yeah but I wasn't LOOKING for cuckoos then.

Beth, plan to take my bantam cuckoo marans pullet to my bantam lav am cockerel anytime now, just need to find an open pen for them.

 

[HenThymes]

Quail question....to raise quail in NC, do you need the Gamebird license or the Ag Pen-raised quail license....or both?

I think it depends on what you plan to do with them??

 

[BHep]

Beth, plan to take my bantam cuckoo marans pullet to my bantam lav am cockerel anytime now, just need to find an open pen for them.

I was snooping around the barn today and came up with the same conclusion. How funny is that....thought I would try it out with the bantams since I have the "equipment". Then if I like it go for LF.
And of course I don't have an open pen either.

Wonder if I could do this with BR hen & lav Am rooster ????? Barred Lav? IDK.. I not to stop this madness !!!!

 

[BHep]

The effectiveness of The Staring Method of Hatching has not yet been pr oven. I personally have done hours of research and have not yet come to any conclusive findings of the effects of staring on hatching eggs. Keep staring and let us know your own results.

Congratulations to everyone on ALL your new hatches. Love the new little guinea....nothing cuter than a guinea keet sleeping position...FLAT. Although I still get that little twinge (is it DEAD?) everytime I see them doing that.

I am on lockdown with 41 BW quail eggs to hatch this weekend. Here is our brooder setup:

Pictured here: the tub itself (snatched from the paddock and scrubbed and disinfected). Red heat lamp on a camera tripod. Also , as you can see, our brooder has it's own "Security Guard," pictured here in all his intimidating alertness. Anyway, we have puppy pads in the bottom of the brooder, then a fitted sheet in it to line it, and then we will add shavings. We put the locked-down incubator right inside the brooder, up on blocks for good ventilation, so when we transfer the chicks out, we won't have any free-range runners in the house.



These were the eggs when they arrived from Lake Cumberland Game birds. Ordered 50, got 55, none damaged. Candled at 15 days, discarded 14, left with 41.

You do know that them Quails will be out of that brooder in less then a week. They are like little helicopters.

 

[LukesCityHens]

My new lav orps!