Texas

[hensfortherapy]

Oh worse yuck. Praying Blondie makes it.

 

[RoosterCogburn7]

Quail of any breed fall under a game bird breeder permit. Its less than $30/annually for less than 1000 birds. $186 for more than 1000 birds. Quail of any breed fall under this license. You can get it from the Texas parks and wildlife website. Or google Texas game bird breeder permit. As long as you have that, you can have quail. If you don't have that, and you get audited, you stand losing all of your birds and a hefty fine.

Do they come out and inspect?

 

[orumpoultry]

I've never been inspected, but I'm registered just in case.

 

[pmh80]

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[wilded]

You can raise any of the Japanese or European breeds of Quail such as Coturnix, Button or my favorite, the Texas A&M Whites without a TPWD license. I will tell you that quail are more work, more worry, stress quicker and are much more expensive to raise for meat and eggs than chickens. JMHO

 

[Briza]

From Houston here. It's pretty cool that states have their own threads

 

[tjo804]

From Houston here. It's pretty cool that states have their own threads

Hello from Cedar Creek
Loads of Great Ideas and people here!

 

[Briza]

Hello from Cedar Creek
Loads of Great Ideas and people here!

I'm glad to know that. I don't know many people that raise chickens where I live so it's nice to find a place where I can come for support.

 

[tjo804]

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You will find much support and encouragement here BEWARE of chicken math and you will also find people who will help with problem solving on any subject not just chickens. On the brighter side of things with all the Avian Flu going around in the USA you will be in high demand with your friends who do not have chickens. They will want your eggs as the prices sky rocket they are saying some of the egg prices have gone up 60% over night in some places. checked yesterday and the total is now past 45 million factory chickens culled in 15 states. Texas is not one of them.
Your friends will come around very quickly once they find out that chickens make better companions and pets then some dogs and cats do. and they provide the best eggs.

About your flock, What do you have? Are they laying yet? have you done the store vs home egg test? just crack an egg from your hens next to an egg from the store and you will NEVER buy another egg from a store again! I have also read that by the time an egg reaches the store it is already about 90 days old. ?hmmm sounds yummy to me

 

[needlessjunk]

LMAO
You will find much support and encouragement here BEWARE of chicken math and you will also find people who will help with problem solving on any subject not just chickens.  On the brighter side of things with all the Avian Flu going around in the USA you will be in high demand with your friends who do not have chickens. They will want your eggs as the prices sky rocket they are saying some of the egg prices have gone up 60% over night in some places. checked yesterday and the total is now past 45 million factory chickens culled in 15 states. Texas is not one of them.
Your friends will come around very quickly once they find out that chickens make better companions and pets then some dogs and cats do. and they provide the best eggs.

About your flock, What do you have? Are they laying yet? have you done the store vs home egg test? just crack an egg from your hens next to an egg from the store and you will NEVER buy another egg from a store again! I have also read that by the time an egg reaches the store it is already about 90 days old. ?hmmm sounds yummy to me

Oh yes... We don't ever enable anyone... LMAO! Poultry math is terrible! I started with 2 ducks and now have 5 ducks and 3 chicks. Chicken math is very real.

Kinda funny that you mentioned the prices of eggs going up. I'm just starting to sell my eggs and I'm hoping this will give me a little boost. I hope that will all the avian flu going around all the backyard flocks stay safe. I wish all places were more open to backyard flock.