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| Jpmiller:
--- Quote from: Widgeondeke on August 10, 2020, 09:29:48 PM ---Hold the body at the shoulders, pull the head. Just like rabbits, breaking the neck is simple. Other option, use a small cone. Insert head first, pull head and slice neck. Let them hang to bleed out. This is how I do checkens & turkeys ;) --- End quote --- I like the cone method but we use a sharp pair of two handed hedge trimmers and just take the whole.head off and let it bleed. Less room for error |
| jackelope:
--- Quote from: Birdguy on August 10, 2020, 09:37:08 PM ---Raised thousands of them over the years. Celadons do not seem to lay as well as the normal ones. They are the "rats" of the quail world. Most lay an egg a day (some more) and start laying eggs at about 6 weeks old. You can have a thousand in a short time with an incubator. Eggs are good, lots of people with allergies to chicken eggs can eat quail eggs no problem. Incubation is 17 days. Fertility and hatch are usually very good if it slips get some new blood and it will go right back up. They are not good flyers, we used them for puppy training aids when we started. Do well in our winter, with a little light they will lay all year. The males have a neat call that is not loud and does not neighbors. Lol. If you have questions ask away, by no means a coturnix expert but I do know a bit :tup:. --- End quote --- Rats of the quail world, huh? Wife and her friend wanted the celadon for the pretty blue eggs :chuckle: . |
| KFhunter:
I'd like a game bird incubator that'll do anything from small button quail to Pheasant, to maybe even bigger eggs? any suggestions? |
| jackelope:
--- Quote from: KFhunter on August 11, 2020, 08:52:40 AM ---I'd like a game bird incubator that'll do anything from small button quail to Pheasant, to maybe even bigger eggs? any suggestions? --- End quote --- We don't have one, but my wife's friend who is incubating the quail eggs has a Brinsea. She's a chicken junky but has incubated quail eggs before in it. Hatches chicken eggs, shows chickens, has over 100 of them, kid heavily involved in 4-H poultry, etc. I believe the biggest difference is humidity level, but I'm not sure of that. Bird Guy knows more about that than I do. |
| Birdguy:
--- Quote from: jackelope on August 11, 2020, 06:01:21 AM --- --- Quote from: Birdguy on August 10, 2020, 09:37:08 PM ---Raised thousands of them over the years. Celadons do not seem to lay as well as the normal ones. They are the "rats" of the quail world. Most lay an egg a day (some more) and start laying eggs at about 6 weeks old. You can have a thousand in a short time with an incubator. Eggs are good, lots of people with allergies to chicken eggs can eat quail eggs no problem. Incubation is 17 days. Fertility and hatch are usually very good if it slips get some new blood and it will go right back up. They are not good flyers, we used them for puppy training aids when we started. Do well in our winter, with a little light they will lay all year. The males have a neat call that is not loud and does not neighbors. Lol. If you have questions ask away, by no means a coturnix expert but I do know a bit :tup:. --- End quote --- Rats of the quail world, huh? Wife and her friend wanted the celadon for the pretty blue eggs :chuckle: . --- End quote --- We call them the rats as they reproduce very quickly and LOTS of them. We started with 10 8 hens and 2 roos and were hatching 50plus a week when we started. Our daughter was 2 or 3 and LOVED hatch day and helping get all the chicks out of the incubator. Now I keep a few just to prove incubator function and give to kids who come to the house and fall in love with birds. They are easy keepers and a kid getting eggs in weeks vice months with chickens is so cool to them. |
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