Post by: jackelope on August 10, 2020, 08:53:31 AM
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Post by: nwwanderer on August 10, 2020, 09:00:46 PM
Post by: jackelope on August 10, 2020, 09:09:35 PM
Post by: Widgeondeke on August 10, 2020, 09:29:48 PM
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 ;)
Post by: Birdguy on August 10, 2020, 09:37:08 PM
If you have questions ask away, by no means a coturnix expert but I do know a bit :tup:.
Post by: Jpmiller on August 11, 2020, 05:41:10 AM
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 ;)
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
Post by: jackelope on August 11, 2020, 06:01:21 AM
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:.
Rats of the quail world, huh? Wife and her friend wanted the celadon for the pretty blue eggs :chuckle: .
Post by: KFhunter on August 11, 2020, 08:52:40 AM
any suggestions?
Post by: jackelope on August 11, 2020, 09:06:50 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?
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.
Post by: Birdguy on August 13, 2020, 09:49:15 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:.
Rats of the quail world, huh? Wife and her friend wanted the celadon for the pretty blue eggs :chuckle: .
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.
Post by: Birdguy on August 13, 2020, 10:00:28 PM
I'd like a game bird incubator that'll do anything from small button quail to Pheasant, to maybe even bigger eggs?
any suggestions?
KFhunter, most incubators will do all gamebirds and most farm birds that are not waterfowl. We have hatched from quail to peacocks in the same incubator. We have a couple GQF Sportsman incubators, they hold 1200 quail eggs or 400 chicken eggs, they auto rotate and have automated humidity system. Not perfect but way better than manually doing all that. I avoid the styrofoam incubators as they do not hold temp well with changes in ambient temps nor when opening to check water, and turn eggs. Brinsea males good incubators for sure. We bought one new in 2000 and bought the others used in 2002, and have been dependable hatching machines!
Post by: jackelope on March 01, 2021, 09:53:36 AM
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Post by: jackelope on March 01, 2021, 09:55:26 AM
Birdguy is the man. He doesn't seem to mind 13 questions a day either. :chuckle:
Post by: 2MANY on March 01, 2021, 10:38:48 AM
They will die in the mouth of my 8 week old Chessie pup.
16' x 32' bird pen about done.
Then it's time to incubate Pheasant eggs and raise birds.
Gonna be a lot of feathers and death coming up.
Post by: Bigshooter on March 08, 2021, 04:27:05 AM
Post by: Duckslayer89 on March 08, 2021, 04:32:10 AM
Picking up 3 dozen quail tomorrow.
They will die in the mouth of my 8 week old Chessie pup.
16' x 32' bird pen about done.
Then it's time to incubate Pheasant eggs and raise birds.
Gonna be a lot of feathers and death coming up.
Where are you getting them from I’m interested I have an 8 week old lab pup
Post by: Bigshooter on March 08, 2021, 04:35:57 AM
Picking up 3 dozen quail tomorrow.
They will die in the mouth of my 8 week old Chessie pup.
16' x 32' bird pen about done.
Then it's time to incubate Pheasant eggs and raise birds.
Gonna be a lot of feathers and death coming up.
Where are you getting them from I’m interested I have an 8 week old lab pup
I would find the closes poultry auction to you and check it out. There should be tons of quail at these auctions in a couple months.
Post by: Duckslayer89 on March 08, 2021, 08:56:32 AM
Picking up 3 dozen quail tomorrow.
They will die in the mouth of my 8 week old Chessie pup.
16' x 32' bird pen about done.
Then it's time to incubate Pheasant eggs and raise birds.
Gonna be a lot of feathers and death coming up.
Where are you getting them from I’m interested I have an 8 week old lab pup
I would find the closes poultry auction to you and check it out. There should be tons of quail at these auctions in a couple months.
Sweet thanks man. I should start a thread on training with live birds don’t wanna derail
Post by: jackelope on March 08, 2021, 03:45:36 PM
Picking up 3 dozen quail tomorrow.
They will die in the mouth of my 8 week old Chessie pup.
16' x 32' bird pen about done.
Then it's time to incubate Pheasant eggs and raise birds.
Gonna be a lot of feathers and death coming up.
Where are you getting them from I’m interested I have an 8 week old lab pup
I would find the closes poultry auction to you and check it out. There should be tons of quail at these auctions in a couple months.
Sweet thanks man. I should start a thread on training with live birds don’t wanna derail
I'm not sure what the deal is currently with the rona limits, but you might find some at the enumclaw sales pavilion. It's a weekly livestock auction house in the claw.
Post by: Birdguy on March 09, 2021, 06:58:39 PM
Are you getting any eggs yet? My buddy has a dozen hens and they are not laying yet. Probably to early but they should start any day now I would think.
@Bigshooter we have been getting eggs from the coturnix for about a week (no lights) nothing from the bobwhites or mountains yet, likely another 3 to 5 weeks for them, though a good stretch of sunny weather changes everything! Been getting ringneck eggs for a few weeks, do not remember ever getting them in February!!
Post by: jackelope on March 09, 2021, 08:30:44 PM
Are you getting any eggs yet? My buddy has a dozen hens and they are not laying yet. Probably to early but they should start any day now I would think.Sorry I missed this. We’ve been getting eggs all along but my wife has light on them. I just put them all in the new coop and the celadons that lay the blue eggs have stopped laying. The new birds are still young but at least one of them is laying an egg pretty much every day. She just has a mini string of LED christmas light type lights hanging in the front of the coop doors.