Trying to get the courage to process...

[saddina]

We avoid you tube like the plauge, have to, could you see the parents of one of his students finding that and being an animal rights person? Esp. since they do dissections in his classes. I don't post video of me performing for the same reasons, the dresses are low cut and the routines are dangerious.

I thought 8 weeks was the norm for coturnix?

 

[Cherlyn]

Is quail crowing really that loud? Loud enough to bother the neighbors?

~Cherlyn

 

[simplyscrambled]

Small yards in suburbia! Probably 35-45 feet to the neighbor's windows, on all 3 sides. And not really during the day, but in the dead of night, 3 & 4 & 5:00am? It carries! No one has left me notes or said anything yet.

Oh, and the lone A&M roo seems to have the most piercing cry. And more often than the jumbos I have. I think he'll be the first!

Saddina, I understand about youtube! I think Nikki has posted in a number of threads that she processes at 12 weeks, because between 6 and 12 weeks for jumbos, that's when they add a lot of 'meat' to their bones!

 

[Cherlyn]

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I have the same living situation as you - hopefully my neighbors continue to be understanding.

~Cherlyn

 

[jetto]

Is quail crowing really that loud? Loud enough to bother the neighbors?

>we have both bobs and coturnix and the bobs to me are much more pleasant to hear, lol....i still get startled when one of the coturnix lets out a crow when I'm in the barn with them....the neighbors like the sound of the bobs but they can't hear the coturnix with the distance we have between houses- we're in farm country. The bobs are loud enough though they can hear them but everyone tells me it reminds them of when they were kids and heard wild bobs calling so it's a nice sound to them. I didn't appreciate the bobs calling this past weekend however. We were at our training/field trialing club grounds in western PA and our pop-up camper was parked near the barn- where the bobs were housed- at 5:45 am after a night of wine and fun even the lovely bob-bob-white sound isn't fun to wake up to! LOL! Kristi

 

[danny40]

I had a group of 9 adult A&M whites that I bought 8 weeks ago. 7 of them happened to be males and they started to crow when spring started at 5 am in the morning. One day when the crowing was especially loud, my Dad couldn't handle it anymore and 'processed' 2 of the males. He ended up 'processing' the rest in time for Father's Day. The meat was great. I hope my next batch of 60 mixed birds which I hatched myself do well. Will keep them in the shed if needed as I was afraid the neighbours complain however I'm very worried about the smell.