The 4th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-a-long

[Pele]

Because I can

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Quote:
Originally Posted by CayuseRanch

Question for you quail hatchers. I am curious as to why people hatch/raise quail? They seem kind of flighty to me to be a pet, not as colorful as chickens, eggs to small to make a good omelet and a whole lot a work for a little bit of meat. Do you release them into the wild? Just curious because I see so many people doing it and thinking am I missing something? Is this a new "breed" I must have? lol

OZEXPAT:

the meat is less per bird but way better per pound of feed,

they mature in a few weeks

the eggs are used as garnishes in many asian dishes

they can be kept in a relatively small cage

they dont crow

cotornix quails wont set, and arent native so releasing them into wild is irresponsible.



All the above and:

The eggs are great in vinegar.

I feed the extra eggs to my animals in shell.

Children love the little fried eggs.

All I eat at one time is one Jumbo quail and find that enough but two make a nice meal.

Processing is just a few minutes each and incredibly easy (if you skin).

 

[ozexpat]

What a loss!!!!! Hope you will reorder from him. What had you ordered?
I've been thinking about his NEw Hampshires. Trying a few meat birds this spring for comparisons.

2 doz white NJ
2 doz barred rocks

I wanted black NJ as well but they are not available

the order I placed was for shipping March 25

unfortunately frank mistakenly sent it out early. he is re shipping for me at no cost.

I also have 2 doz each RIR, Blue Orps and Silver Dorks coming from Dick Horstman

I have fallen for heritage birds

 

[kalbach8]

Well have a total of 82 eggs in my 2 bators for the hatch-a-long! Going to check them all on Sat. evening, to see how they are all making out.

 

[loves2hatch]

After I respond to a post with a post ( submit), I hit the back arrow in the upper leftof my google chrome ; you will see the writing in the text box, which I ignore and find my place on the page again. ANd keep reading ! If I see another post to respond to, it will add to the one in the text which I clear; When I go to the next page, the text box will be a new one.


I just go back and forth-- my brain could never handle going backwards!! lol Hard enough following going forward on this thread!! Hope this helps.

Thanks, hopefully by the time this hatch is over I will be a whiz at how to move around on here. The person that suggested to subscribe and hit the little arrow on the left has helped save me tons of time so far.! I'm sure this tidbit will even be more of a time saver.

 

[CherokeeFlats]

Good Friday Morning everyone.

Finally got caught back up on the reading. Boy there were a lot of posts! I like it. Hard to believe tomorrow the eggs have been set a week already. Boy how time flies. I'm not going to bother my broody too much till close to day 18. I am very excited to see what hatches. Mine are all EEs from my own flock.

Picking up my Silver Ameraucanas tomorrow

Going to save eggs from them to put in my new Brinsea Octagon when it gets here in a couple weeks. My kids think I'm crazy.. Chicken Crazy as they put it lol oh well, I'd have to agree

My enabler husband is just glad it keeps me happy, I'm so glad I've kept him around these last 17 yrs lol

 

[JoyfulPromise]

Quote:
Originally Posted by CayuseRanch

Question for you quail hatchers. I am curious as to why people hatch/raise quail? They seem kind of flighty to me to be a pet, not as colorful as chickens, eggs to small to make a good omelet and a whole lot a work for a little bit of meat. Do you release them into the wild? Just curious because I see so many people doing it and thinking am I missing something? Is this a new "breed" I must have? lol

OZEXPAT:

the meat is less per bird but way better per pound of feed,

they mature in a few weeks

the eggs are used as garnishes in many asian dishes

they can be kept in a relatively small cage

they dont crow

cotornix quails wont set, and arent native so releasing them into wild is irresponsible.



All the above and:

The eggs are great in vinegar.

I feed the extra eggs to my animals in shell.

Children love the little fried eggs.

All I eat at one time is one Jumbo quail and find that enough but two make a nice meal.

Processing is just a few minutes each and incredibly easy (if you skin).

Hmm, keep talking... You just might convince me to try raising quail!

They are pretty cute...

 

[ImpulsiveFarmer]

I'm doing a staggered hatch and when I woke up this morning I found that my first batch has started to hatch!




This is the first to hatch out. I normally like to keep them in the bator until they are mostly dry, but with the other eggs and the turners in there I didn't want to chance the chick getting stuck. I didn't raise the humidity has high as I normally do because of the other eggs, but so far it hasn't been an issue.

I'm planning on candling the other eggs tomorrow if these guy are all hatched by then.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Can you talk to my DH?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I wish Ron were here with his updates, I cant keep up : (