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We don't keep quail but there's a kid behind us who does. He's got ~15 of them. Gets a dozen eggs a day and sells them at a couple stores in town and at the farmers market. We've gotten eggs from him a bunch and they're great. Ive been to his house and seen his setup. Really it's a cage about 12' long. That's it. He built it himself with it designed for egg production. The floor is sloped and they roll down to the front of it. He goes out every morning and grabs them in about 30 seconds. The front of the cage has an opening a little taller than the egg is with a rolled up lip to catch the eggs as they roll down. It's really a clever setup. The quail don't have any access to grass etc. They just stay in the cage all the time. He also has homing pidgeons which are pretty neat too.
What kind of quail are they?
Quote from: NW-GSP on May 14, 2016, 03:44:23 PMWhat kind of quail are they?Coturnix quail.
I know some one who raises Bob White quail.The are bigger that cortnix prolific breeders and bigger than cortnix. I think they sound cool and if i had a little more room id raise some. IF you do it right yoou can kind of free range them. You can put in a recall door. You let loose a few at a time and att he end of the day they whistle the recall for the covey to join back up. Bobwhites are not native to the area so they are legal to raise with no real permits. https://quailforever.org/ some good reading.
Quote from: Special T on May 26, 2016, 08:05:57 AMI know some one who raises Bob White quail.The are bigger that cortnix prolific breeders and bigger than cortnix. I think they sound cool and if i had a little more room id raise some. IF you do it right yoou can kind of free range them. You can put in a recall door. You let loose a few at a time and att he end of the day they whistle the recall for the covey to join back up. Bobwhites are not native to the area so they are legal to raise with no real permits. https://quailforever.org/ some good reading.I think part of the appeal to the coturnix quail is the size of them, the small area needed to keep them and the speed in which they reach maturity to lay eggs.
Quote from: Special T on May 26, 2016, 08:05:57 AMI know some one who raises Bob White quail.The are bigger that cortnix prolific breeders and bigger than cortnix. I think they sound cool and if i had a little more room id raise some. IF you do it right yoou can kind of free range them. You can put in a recall door. You let loose a few at a time and att he end of the day they whistle the recall for the covey to join back up. Bobwhites are not native to the area so they are legal to raise with no real permits. https://quailforever.org/ some good reading.Not calling anyone out here but I believe a call to the state upland game manager would prove the statement above about "bobwhites being not native to the area being legal to raise without a real permit" to be false. It has been a few years since I have talked to the manager, and a few years since I was licensed but a quick read of the upland regs suggests they are still considered a game bird and thus would require a permit as they did when I was raising them. Page 3 states you are required to have a small game license to hunt them, page 14 and 15 give you seasons for bobs in both eastern and western Washington and page 40 clearly gives a picture of bobwhite quail as well.The argument of "native" does not apply much to our game birds in WA. Ringnecks, chukar, huns, bobwhites and some might argue that valley quail and not native to where they are found today yet all were considered game birds and a permit/license was required all the years I raised them. Again, maybe to rules have changed but I really doubt it. Perhaps someone who has a current license or vested interest in the rules today will chime in. Maybe I will make a call during the week sometime and double check. I just want the best information put out to our community here on Hunt-wa.