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Tatanka Breeders Club: Meat Quail project with history, discussion, pictures and videos
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Thanks Moby for getting me on the right track. Much appreciated
Hi, who are the closest breeders in the San Francisco Bay Area? I'm interested in trying some. I've been hatching White A&M types so have some experience. The hen on your front page looks like my favorite layer right now, her name is Bubba.
Here's a thought that's been swimming around in my mind since I first started following this thread. How do you know when you've reached as big as you can get? As with antyhing that we've selectively bred for largeness, they start coming with bone problems and heart problems etc etc. I am supposing that the final product will be a bird that is meant to be slaughtered at 8 weeks or less and that, like the giant meat chickens, wouldn't live long past that age anyway? Just a thought - i still think what you are doing is fantastic, I'm just wondering at what point it will peak at?
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in the 70s and 80s they made great strides with the carcass size of turkeys, then they hit a slower growth curve, but they still grow just a little bigger each year.
personally I am working towards a covey of young birds over 14 oz laying 16g eggs consistently. where the mean, median and mode show some uniformity of carcass size and growth rate.
Right now, I am actually very happy with our birds, I took some marinated to a BBQ today and they were the hit of the party.
I just may have the fewest birds of our more established coveys, I am just closing in on 36 hens that have all made weights and cuts.
but I'm about maxed out until fall and cooler weather. I hear Rhode Island and Colorado are about to have more and more Tatankas.
but anyone just starting, just keep the fastest growing, larger birds that lay the larger eggs, and repeat.
personally I am working towards a covey of young birds over 14 oz laying 16g eggs consistently. where the mean, median and mode show some uniformity of carcass size and growth rate.
Right now, I am actually very happy with our birds, I took some marinated to a BBQ today and they were the hit of the party.
I just may have the fewest birds of our more established coveys, I am just closing in on 36 hens that have all made weights and cuts.
but I'm about maxed out until fall and cooler weather. I hear Rhode Island and Colorado are about to have more and more Tatankas.
but anyone just starting, just keep the fastest growing, larger birds that lay the larger eggs, and repeat.
the first two little fuzzybutts have hatched... they weigh in at 10 grams each once dried off....
can't see any other pips yet... but hopefully we have more than 2 from the first batch
can't see any other pips yet... but hopefully we have more than 2 from the first batch
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hope you get more yinepu, heard from wmr, she only got 12...
idaho got more
but honestly
not good #s.
idaho got more
but honestly
not good #s.
16 chicks out as of this morning.. a couple more are pipped
weights have been ranging between 8 grams (1 chick), 9 grams (2 chicks), 10 grams (9 chicks) and 11 grams (4 chicks)
and if it helps any...
egg markings:
S 7 (2 were S20)
W 6
C 3
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