What are the best places to buy live quail online?

[JacinLarkwell]

Where does one find hatching eggs?

Ebay, risingpheonixfarm, myshire

 

[Kiki]

Where does one find hatching eggs?

where else...
Myshire or Kiki.

 

[Kiki]

Ebay...noway.
Only buy from somebody you can thoroughly investigate.

 

[MarkJr]

where else...
Myshire or Kiki.

I'd have to research what quail need..... then I'll phone a Kiki. Only if she let's me pay a fair price.

 

[Tre3hugger]

The main reason I don't want to incubate is my solar power is a bit unreliable. I have generator backup but I constantly worry about the power staying on when I am not home and all the other incubation probs that can occur from intermittent power. Also, I have a small Bator that would fit 12 quail eggs. That means either buy another bator and do them all at once(2x the power draw/margin for error) or do the batches in one bator one after the other (extends constant power need by weeks.) and then I have to integrate. I know baby quail are adoarable, and seeing them hatch is fun, but I think in this instance the power stress will outweigh the fun.
I understand I will need power to brood, but I am trying to cut down the time that my quails lives depend on electricity. Seems to me the most effective way to do that would be skip incubation. @Kiki @Ravenlover

Any practical reasons I am missing why I should hatch?

 

[Tre3hugger]

Where are you located? I was able to find my first quail locally from Craig’s list.

Western Mass

 

[NY Coturnix]

If you aren't wanting to hatch or brood I'd find someone on craigslist that you could buy adult birds from. You'll pay a little more but no chicks or 4 weeks or brooding and then waiting for eggs.

 

[Ravenlover]

I gave what advice i could

 

[RUNuts]

The main reason I don't want to incubate is my solar power is a bit unreliable. I have generator backup but I constantly worry about the power staying on when I am not home and all the other incubation probs that can occur from intermittent power. Also, I have a small Bator that would fit 12 quail eggs. That means either buy another bator and do them all at once(2x the power draw/margin for error) or do the batches in one bator one after the other (extends constant power need by weeks.) and then I have to integrate. I know baby quail are adoarable, and seeing them hatch is fun, but I think in this instance the power stress will outweigh the fun.
I understand I will need power to brood, but I am trying to cut down the time that my quails lives depend on electricity. Seems to me the most effective way to do that would be skip incubation. @Kiki @Ravenlover

Any practical reasons I am missing why I should hatch?

How do you heat the house?
Way back when, before my time, they'd put a basket of eggs under the wood stove and turn them a couple times a day. Do you have a wood stove?

They also have kerosene incubators.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Myshire sells ones that can go outside when you get them