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Quail are just fun, I can talk to them for hours, and they hold a conversation, and on the plus side is eggs or meat in 8 weeks( some say 6 weeks, I go with 8)....that is for the coturnix, different game plan for the bobwhite..

Will give a quail lesson when you are down here, can process a few and send with hubby if he wants o try them, I prefer them grilled.
 
chippysmom327 said:
No one cares, but there are some pips in my broody hens guinea eggs! I'm not gonna "open" the "bator" anymore until they all hatch!
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Love guinea keets !
Keep us updated. I bought some keets this year and have 16 of them in shed waiting for a suitable run to get attached. We've had them free ranging around the farm for many years, but some of these are staying confined so I can collect eggs next spring. Everyone loves how they eat ticks (and other bugs), but it comes at a price, they are the noisiest animals we have (at least until the peas mature and get their voice).
 
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I forget what these taste like, I have been sold out daily for weeks now....

Funny thing is just a year ago family and friends got free eggs and chicken, I couldn't sell either... Now I can not keep up with demand....would really like to know why the sudden change..

Are people eating differently
Maybe because we have more traffic on our road lately
I know a few new customers are just from word of mouth.


BUT !!! I really wanted eggs for lunch, not gonna happen. The man that stopped this morning, caughtme coming out of the layer pen with egg bucket in hand, he bought every last one, and they were a little dirty due to the weather lately, he didn't care.
 
dheltzel said:
chippysmom327 said:
No one cares, but there are some pips in my broody hens guinea eggs! I'm not gonna "open" the "bator" anymore until they all hatch! :ya :ya :ya
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Love guinea keets !
Keep us updated. I bought some keets this year and have 16 of them in shed waiting for a suitable run to get attached. We've had them free ranging around the farm for many years, but some of these are staying confined so I can collect eggs next spring. Everyone loves how they eat ticks (and other bugs), but it comes at a price, they are the noisiest animals we have (at least until the peas mature and get their voice).
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X2 but unfortunately the in laws do not like them....I may need to get some in the future though.
 
Anne, I deal directly with the same hatcheries that the large production houses do,, in my area I have 3 to choose from, Hy-Line hatchery supplies the local egg layers and longenecker's supply the local broiler houses, then I have with in a half hour drive the freedom ranger hatchery, they carry the meat birds and also ducks and guinea...

Exact same birds that the grocery store would have, I just feed and raise differently than the big production guys...
 
wingstone said:
dheltzel said:
chippysmom327 said:
No one cares, but there are some pips in my broody hens guinea eggs! I'm not gonna "open" the "bator" anymore until they all hatch! :ya :ya :ya
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Love guinea keets !
Keep us updated. I bought some keets this year and have 16 of them in shed waiting for a suitable run to get attached. We've had them free ranging around the farm for many years, but some of these are staying confined so I can collect eggs next spring. Everyone loves how they eat ticks (and other bugs), but it comes at a price, they are the noisiest animals we have (at least until the peas mature and get their voice).
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X2 but unfortunately the in laws do not like them....I may need to get some in the future though.
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My dad has talked about wanting them since I was born, but we never had the room. When our dog got Lyme's this past winter (it can take a few months for symptoms to show up, so he got bit in the fall), dad said we were gettin guineas and he'd build a bigger coop. Wasn't gonna turn that offer down. Then Penelope went broody at the perfect time.
 
Blarneyeggs said:
chippysmom327 said:
No one cares, but there are some pips in my broody hens guinea eggs! I'm not gonna "open" the "bator" anymore until they all hatch! :ya :ya :ya
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I was just sitting on the couch and she strolled past the front window. I was like :eek: "PENELOPE GRACE! Get back to your babies!" so I ran outside and scooped her up, fed her some scratch, and threw her back on the nest. All of her eggs are pipped and one just started zipping. They're the queitest batch of babies I've ever seen and I find it ironic because they're guineas. I haven't heard one peep yet. Maybe she doesn't even know they're hatching.
 
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