Quail for eatin', which breed?

[thatchickenlady]

My family also likes the "all white" and amount of meat on the Texas A & M... To help with the earlier question, quite obvious that it was developed cooperatively through a research program at Texas A & M University...

 

[Byrdj]

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Wow! Yes, this is helpful too. Skinning is easy but I like skin

And I am very interested in these A&M's. What does their initials stand for?

A & M stand for Agricultural and Mechanical.

 

[_Randall_]

Them Bobs are hard to beat, in my opinion!

 

[Overeasyplz]

Hey there, welcome to the forum! I read that bobs are kinda violent... Do you have very many of them?

 

[thebirdfarm]

I've had a lot of the different breeds of quail. The bobs are more aggressive with the reds being my most aggressive. I do like their color though so thats why I keep a couple around. As far as a meat bird though I would reccomend the coturnix because the tolerate tighter living quarters and mature faster. As far as colored coturnix vs a&ms my family has noticed a taste difference between the two birds, especially eating the breast meat. The bad part about it is that of a family of four we are split down the middle as to who likes which better. I feel the a&ms are more like a chicken flavor where as the coloreds are a little stronger flavored. We could decide so I just raise both. I have however found that my bigger whites don't seem to have the best fertility when it come to hatching their eggs. So we end up eating more coloreds. Just a guess but I would say my coloreds hatch out at about 85% where as my bigger whites hatch out around 20%. This could just be mine though.

 

[_Randall_]

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Me?? I've got 48 right now. Raised them from chicks I bought. And, aaahhhhh, yeah.......they kinda got an attitude about'em sometimes. I keep saying that if I believed in reincarnation, that some of these birds have come back from the bullies that were in my elementary grades many, many years ago

To be honest, I've never eaten anything but Bobwhites, because that's what we used to hunt around here. And I would almost venture to say it wouldn't seem right unless you bit down on some No. 8 shot every once in a while when you planted your teeth into one.......lol