Tatanka Breeders Club: Meat Quail project with history, discussion, pictures and videos

[Peacerose]

Good idea weighing your bird in a canister. I'll try it.

 

[MobyQuail]

we have a few up and comers growing out from our last project hatch, will give them some time to get their egg size up to par, 14+ grams or its the crockpot for them...

will be keeping 27+ hens and 6-8 of my biggest roos for the fall season. I owe heritage farms (eli) some stock and I owe frankallen another round of bigguns.

this fall/winter should be very promising,we have enough tatanka breeders all over the US to plan an egg swap and hatch-off.

 

[yinepu]

we have a few up and comers growing out from our last project hatch, will give them some time to get their egg size up to par, 14+ grams or its the crockpot for them...

will be keeping 27+ hens and 6-8 of my biggest roos for the fall season. I owe heritage farms (eli) some stock and I owe frankallen another round of bigguns.

this fall/winter should be very promising,we have enough tatanka breeders all over the US to plan an egg swap and hatch-off.

i wish mine would lay at least 1 egg... i know its been hot.. (even the last of my ebay birds have been slacking off in the egg department).. but at least the ebay ones still lay a few eggs every week

 

[dt1958]

we have a few up and comers growing out from our last project hatch, will give them some time to get their egg size up to par, 14+ grams or its the crockpot for them...

will be keeping 27+ hens and 6-8 of my biggest roos for the fall season. I owe heritage farms (eli) some stock and I owe frankallen another round of bigguns.

this fall/winter should be very promising,we have enough tatanka breeders all over the US to plan an egg swap and hatch-off.

Should have a good number of new up & coming Hens up to standards here by fall, my original 6 split hens are still cranking out 14+g eggs here pretty consistently even with the 100 degree heat that we have now. Working on my 5th hatch of the summer now, getting some keepers that meet standards out of each hatch ! Ready to rock & roll here

 

[AZ Birds]

just wanted to post on here that i had a weird thing happen to me last night while searching videos on youtube for big quail. i came across mobyquail channel and watched all the videos, then this morning i come on here and the first thread i see is this thread which i have never seen before and read the entire thing and had my mind blown on how the big birds i saw on the videos were produced. great job mobyquail i will be following this thread and learning how to do things right. this threads is now making me want to run out a get a scale and see where my ebay quail stand. hopefully in the near future i can get my hands on some tatankas and work with them here in AZ.

 

[speedy2020]

we have a few up and comers growing out from our last project hatch, will give them some time to get their egg size up to par, 14+ grams or its the crockpot for them...

will be keeping 27+ hens and 6-8 of my biggest roos for the fall season. I owe heritage farms (eli) some stock and I owe frankallen another round of bigguns.

this fall/winter should be very promising,we have enough tatanka breeders all over the US to plan an egg swap and hatch-off.

I wish you live near by so can pick them up. I am focus on large size and good laying egg in winter.

 

[SSTupperware]

Very cool thread... Lots of info here,,, I see your in CFL I'm in Seminole Co, I will be following this for sure...

 

[AZ Birds]

well after reading this i went out and bought a scale and weighed of few of my quail to see where they stand. at 5 weeks i have few weighing 6 to 7 ounces dont know how fast they will grow in another week but looks like they are pretty close.

 

[MobyQuail]

another keeper


laid this egg today



and some of my other pens, should have more to hatch from this fall.





all avg over 14 grams now




I like the darker colored ones

 

[AZ Birds]

another keeper


laid this egg today



and some of my other pens, should have more to hatch from this fall.





all avg over 14 grams now




I like the darker colored ones

thats awesome! i like the dark colors ones to. i had an egg in a batch that bought that was completely dark brown on the top half white on the bottom half and it almost looked like someone painted on it. unfortunately it was one of the ones that didnt hatch.