Quail Projects

[B. Kossum]

Just wondering what you guys are working towards as far as your quail breeding. I know people keep them for eggs and meat, but does anybody have like a certain goal or type or standard they are breeding for. Are their any developments you can make by strategically breeding certain ones. Just looking for ideas for breeding other than to just have more quail around. Some ways to better the stock.

 

[Robo]

Right now I'm trying to get more white to appear in my tuxedos and this spring I start operation bob-bird. Not the politician...

 

[Hooligan Farm]

I'm working on Italians. I just think they're real cool looking

And just like Robo I may try some Bobs this year

 

[Robo]

Well I'm not trying bobs, I'm playing with them. Bob-bird is a cross between a coturnix and a bobwhite. I just have to take one of my bob hens and coturnix rooster and hope for the best. I could just buy eggs, but I'm a DIY person.

 

[Hooligan Farm]

Gotcha, I'm the same way I would want to try it on my own to. Good luck with it!!!

 

[Robo]

Thanks, I may have to put my crappy AI skills to work. Last time I had a bald coturnix rooster and a very satisfied bobwhite hen.

 

[gmendoza]

I have 3 bob-bird roos in the chicken run right now. I have a coturnix roo,hen,a bob white hen all together for mating.I might have to put littleman(bob-bird with the bobwhite in the empty coop.

Whitie(our texas a&m hen) in in a bird cage in the lab.She had 1/2 of her face ripped off in mating madness.She is now a house quail.

I have to make a broody box for our oegb hen so she can hatch out our fertile quail Yeggs.

 

[Fat Daddy]

I have sold, eaten or gave away all the corts I had been raising. Felt the they were more "standard size", and I want a big bird. Jumbo co-op birds from Buttercup are now in the brooder. They are what I will raise solely for a few generations as far as coturnix go.I want to give her methods a try and see how they work in Kansas.

I have started the Bob farm too. Actually they are going to have bigger no.'s than the corts by far. I started figure'in to use Georgia Giants. I then decided to use Butler Bobs. I got 1 hatch of the G.G.'s before I changed my mind, so these will go to freezer camp. They are nice birds. The Butlers are going to have to be pretty nice to shade them much... Time will tell.

I figure none of the Bobs will lay this year so I have time to cull hard and pick the absolute BIGGEST birds for breeders. To this end, I bought 3 dozen Butlers from a breeder in Oregon, they are almost 3 weeks old. 3 dozen from a breeder In texas are hatch'in as I type. And we know JJ has the real deal, I set 3 dozen of his yesterday. I will raise them all in separate pens till breeders are picked. Then try to get the biggest birds to not kill each other. Will see... I intend to try a breeding set up similar to Randalls, several community pens with about 1\\3 roo to hen ratio.

If it all goes to hell, I'll eat'em all and start raise'in rabbits.....

 

[Stellar]

I breed for colors and also working on size. I have a few colors in production not ready to be out in the open yet. Size, my jumbos are big and I am proud of them. The roux dilutes (aka fawn) are getting to be in jumbo category soon as well.

Robo, I have some nice tuxedoes if you need any help.

 

[B. Kossum]

After I went back and read my original post I am surprised anybody understood it lol. Bob-birds sound cool-might be something I'd be interested in. Right now all I have are A&M's. I've got some with more black on their heads than others. Is it possible to breed them enough to get a solid black head? I mean, there's not much of a point to it. I just thought it would look cool. Seems like with coturnix you can do a lot of playing with their colors.

If anybody else has any other breeding ideas for A&M's I'd love to hear them. Just looking for something else to breed for.