Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[ChickenAlgebra]

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I'm decisive. I just decided to raise quail because them are easy to raise, need little room and are tasty morsels of goodness.

I don't know what DH will say to this.

He'll say to pass the bacon.

That's what I'm figuring. So I can't say I think he'll veto my evil plans of raising quail. Hrm. Now I want bacon wrapped gouda stuffed something. Hrm. Have rabbit defrosting, how could I make that work? It's just young rabbit, so it doesn't need low and slow cooking.

 

[Boyd]

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women are indecisive, men are pains...

I'm decisive. I just decided to raise quail because them are easy to raise, need little room and are tasty morsels of goodness.

I don't know what DH will say to this.

he'll lick his lips

I've had a few phone calls late at night or early morning on hatching questions lol. I got out of them when I moved otherwise they are finger licking good.

 

[Boyd]

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women are indecisive, men are pains...

Apparently the only time women are decisive is when they marry a pain.

true 'dat

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Hrm. And one quail makes two of these tasty morsels of goodness? Hrm. It'd be a lot, but there'd be less room than the chickens take up, and my kids will fight for dark meat, so it'd be all dark meat and small packages. Hrmmm.....

Ok, what breed is a good meat quail?

Jumbo Coturnix or Texas A&M's

How long do they take to grow into tasty morsels of goodness? I'm liking the 8 week deal from Saddi.

 

[saddina]

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2X3X1 holds 6. Mine live on my patio, so they have a box to get out of the weather and hide if they want. We stack these on a shelf 3 tall, like rabbit cages. (now my rabbits like in 16sqft 2 level bunny palaces, but that's mostly to do with thier indoor pet status.)

Hayell yah, we are getting quail!!!!! Well, after I hatch at least. But there is gonna be quail raising going on here.

So you let the 6 produce fertile eggs, then post hatch and day 2, process the tasty birdies?

Almost, hatch, at week 3-4 seperate into groups, biggest males get a harem, the smaller ones go into a grow out pen. process extra males at week 6-8 and move the next batch of adolesent males in. Basically I run my bator back to back on quail eggs, eat the extra males, and after eggs production goes down in the harem pens, they get processed as a group (about 6 months). quail don't get tough like chicken do (and quail stock from the bones you just took the breasts off of is the secret to my french onion soup).

 

[saddina]

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I'm decisive. I just decided to raise quail because them are easy to raise, need little room and are tasty morsels of goodness.

I don't know what DH will say to this.

he'll lick his lips

I've had a few phone calls late at night or early morning on hatching questions lol. I got out of them when I moved otherwise they are finger licking good.

Yeah man, you ears ever stop ringing?

 

[saddina]

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Jumbo Coturnix or Texas A&M's

How long do they take to grow into tasty morsels of goodness? I'm liking the 8 week deal from Saddi.

6-8 weeks, eggs come at about that time as well. Basically once the males start acting like the cast of jersey shore, off with thier heads. Less than a minute to process them each (i skin them as i'm going to wrap them in bacon anyways.

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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Hayell yah, we are getting quail!!!!! Well, after I hatch at least. But there is gonna be quail raising going on here.

So you let the 6 produce fertile eggs, then post hatch and day 2, process the tasty birdies?

Almost, hatch, at week 3-4 seperate into groups, biggest males get a harem, the smaller ones go into a grow out pen. process extra males at week 6-8 and move the next batch of adolesent males in. Basically I run my bator back to back on quail eggs, eat the extra males, and after eggs production goes down in the harem pens, they get processed as a group (about 6 months). quail don't get tough like chicken do (and quail stock from the bones you just took the breasts off of is the secret to my french onion soup).

Ok, there's gonna be some quail raising going on. Along with chicken, guinea, turkey and rabbit. What the heck, not like they are going to take up more room.

Do the 6-8 week old males fight? Or just snip off heads before they think about it? When do the hens start laying?

 

[saddina]

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He'll say to pass the bacon.

That's what I'm figuring. So I can't say I think he'll veto my evil plans of raising quail. Hrm. Now I want bacon wrapped gouda stuffed something. Hrm. Have rabbit defrosting, how could I make that work? It's just young rabbit, so it doesn't need low and slow cooking.

I've not had rabbit, although I did agree to try some when i visit boyd. Ours are fixed pet bunnies here, the one i'm picking up from debi is for spinning.

 

[sparkles2307]

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He'll say to pass the bacon.

That's what I'm figuring. So I can't say I think he'll veto my evil plans of raising quail. Hrm. Now I want bacon wrapped gouda stuffed something. Hrm. Have rabbit defrosting, how could I make that work? It's just young rabbit, so it doesn't need low and slow cooking.

Well, if you deboned it all, it wouldn't be entirely in lovely wrapping sized pieces, so I'd casserole it with the cheese and stuff... same flavor, different format.