Just wondering what the majority of you do with your quail Do you keep them for pets Sell the eggs? Sell the birds? Eat the birds?
x 2 Except the pet part...mine are in pens, they get looked at, feed and watered...they make noises and give me eggs and poop. Wouldn't call them pets...
My bobs are around to entertain me. Although I have considered eating a few of them, especially the boys that act like aggressive roosters! I few of my boys would love to gang up and me and do me in!
Quote:My Red's I hope to use as breeders( I only have 7 or 8) ; I plan on using their offspring to teach my pointing lab to hold point. I eat the eggs from my Cot's - the kids say "ooh, gross", & when my 4 wk olds mature I plan on grilling some of them. And.....I hope to trade some eggs with you!
Right now I am hatching and just getting started with Jumbo Coturnix. They are spoiled rotten pets! lol..They will be going in our aviary. Our egg layers . In the future we will hatch their eggs for meat quail, and hope to sell eggs. A few will be set up for selective color breeding.
Quote: Just set a frying pan in their aviary for them to look at for a day or 2 and see if it adjusts their attitude. If that doesn't work maybe park a grill next to it for a few days. I have one young Coturnix that charges and pecks at my hand when I feed. I just sit and laugh at him .
