Office Work, Part Deux: Professional Mayhen

[ChickenAlgebra]

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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.

We have a pet bunny. He's psycho. There will be no more pet bunnies. Only meat bunnies.

 

[saddina]

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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?

They'll start "crowing" about that time (it sounds like a songbird more than a crow, once it crows it goes) if you see they've begun fighting, they're as grown as they'll get so process them.

 

[sparkles2307]

Meso hongray fo bacon-wrapped-chicken breast-filled-with-cheddar-stuffed-jalepenos.

 

[saddina]

Here's the quail sticky, It's got the info from hatching to cooking, with photos.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=102281

 

[sparkles2307]

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AKA "White wings"

 

[ChickenAlgebra]

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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?

They'll start "crowing" about that time (it sounds like a songbird more than a crow, once it crows it goes) if you see they've begun fighting, they're as grown as they'll get so process them.

I can handle that.

 

[saddina]

Yeah I think ours add 1 minute a day to chore time, and they're so easy, evan's been doing those chore for 2 years now. scoop of feed, refill water, while watering garden, pick up eggs. then once a month we process the old (1 min per bird), and put out the new batch. I have some due in the next 24 hours. (quail are 16-18 days, and you should get them out of the bator morning and night.

 

[AK Michelle]

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women are indecisive, men are pains...

Not this woman. I'm plenty decisive. And once I've decided... Lead, follow or get the h- e- double hockey sticks outta my way!

 

[saddina]

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women are indecisive, men are pains...

Not this woman. I'm plenty decisive. And once I've decided... Lead, follow or get the h- e- double hockey sticks outta my way!

We're alike in the best ways...

 

[saddina]

I'm taking the kids to the beach this afternoon, i'll be back in like 6 hours. Read the sticky, the guys in the quail section are pretty friendly, and Boyd's had them longer than the 2 years i have.