You can fix splay leg, cut a thin strip of bandaid length-wise, connect the ends (adhesive side in) slide it up above the knee/mid thigh and lightly pinch everything sticky together (so the legs are where they should be naturally). If done right they will still stand and hobble along. After a day or two gently remove the bandaid (be careful with the legs) and the legs will be normal. When done early enough this method will pretty much always work.
I also use vet wrap, works wonders. Can fix curly toes with little cardboard "shoes" and a bandaid or painters tape, leave a couple days and toes are fixed.
I understand how to fix it but I have a question...so I want those genes to propagate? Would it be better to tag that bird and just let it grow up for meat?
I live in South Florida in the suburbs. My daughter and I both raise quail at each of our homes. We raise them for eggs and for meat. In fact I just culled some today. I love being able to provide protein for my family even though I'm not in the country where I would like to be. However, Nana goes where the grand-babies go at least for now.
I have large lot in an old subdivision. I have been thinking about rabbits and quail. The quail for meat and eggs the rabbits for the compost pile only.
Just put a small elastic band around the quails legs to hold them together. After about 24hrs bc they grow so fast it will correct itself. I have had to do it with everything fro quail to ducks. Works every time. As for watering the garden, I water everyday when it is dry and my roots still go so deep I can’t pull them out at the end of the season. I think it really depends on a lot of different factors. I hope to get quail again someday I love their eggs!
What do you feed your quail. They protein factories but they also need a lot of protein for their size. Just curious and thought your viewers may like to know if you raise any food for them or your other animals.
Do the quail need a high protein gameboard feed? Intellectually I like the small space productivity, but are you able to feed off of the garden/ compost like chickens, or can they make weight on a usual 16% layer feed?
My only problem is what would you feed them if you couldn't get the high protein feed from the store 🤔 I feed mine lots of comfrey and meal worms but to grow the worms are a task themselves.
Dosen't you're ""over watering plants/ dosen't let the roots grow"" also kinda apply too humans? Things happen/ go wrong! We have too struggle! But better for it later! 🤔
We are interested in quail, they are delicious. I have a question. What do you feed them? I was looking at game bird feed and I thought it was a little expensive. Our hens layer feed costs less and they get scraps and extra from my veg garden. Can quail be treated the same or do they eat strictly grain feed? Thanks in advance and thank you for the video. 😊
Hi Zack.. I have raised quail on and off for 40 + years.. You're right they are Protein producing Machines. I have 120 that will be hatching on the 5th.. Thanks Zack..
I have babies hatching right now! Sunday we are butchering a bunch along with teaching a ,new to quail person, how to! Love my quail and the quick turnover rate. Hatch to egg laying around 6 wks. Hatch to butcher we do 8 wks! Breeder ratio 5 hens to 1 roo, so always extra roos for butcher. Eggs and meat nutritious and delicious!
Thank you for your breakdown. I've actually gotten into quail since end of May. I bought 4 hens and 1 roo several months old, so they've been mating and laying eggs. I decided to buy a small incubator that holds 7 eggs, and only 2 hatched. The 2 hatched are 2 weeks old and I believe both girls based on speckled chest feathers. I plan to keep them for eggs and mating with their dad. So I decided to buy a bigger incubator that holds up to 24 quail eggs. I placed 15 eggs in the incubator a week after the 2 hatched girls and, and upon candling at 5 days two weren't fertile, but the other 13 are progressing fine. I plan to keep the hens and maybe 1 boy to switch with the dad and start mating with the mom's so I'll essentially have 2 breeder sets. The remaining birds I'll plan to cull (first timer here), and move forward with hatching the remaining eggs for meat. Did I mention, I'm doing this all in a 1 bedroom apt, lol. Again thank you for the breakdown of when I can expect eggs to start laying and can start pulling for butchering. I initially was feeling overwhelmed on if I wanted to keep incubating, because I don't want an apt full of birds, but with the quick turnaround to be able to butcher and freeze that makes me feel better.
We’ve had chickens with spraddle leg that were cured by keeping them for a few days in an appropriately sized disposable cup. It keeps them upright until their connective tissues heal to the proper position.
Do you have a build video or rough schematics for your quail coops? Did you follow someone’s plan? They are really neat, and I’d like to model my new ones after yours.
Quail are a tasty bird. They are quiet compared to other birds you'd raise on a farm and that's good for city neighborhoods where you have trouble making neighbors who'd call your chickens in to the authorities. Quail take up much less space and they are easy to care for and they breed easily too. I had 20 and hatched 75 out 89 eggs from those 20 birds. With good stuff out of the way, cortunix quail are extremely messy eaters and have to have high protein diets everyday. Other than that they are easy to raise. Good luck if you raise them, they are alot of fun and they almost make music when they make noises. Beautiful birds too the kids will like. They also classified as gamebirds not poultry so the slip through the cracks of poultry laws in your local area.
Have had quail for a few years after I developed a chicken allergy, they are great little birds and prolific. Incubating is required though so be aware that they do not go broody like other birds.
I started Qual because I'm alergic to chicken and there eggs. Developed in my early 30s. Then bout 6 years ago I ate raw quail egg on something without getting sick. Now it's smoked, fried, bufallo,etc quail.
I'm impressed by the temperature light! The feeder is a fantastic idea too. I need to show my little set up, because I could use some pointers as this is our first year raising quail. Ours are on week 10 and will be butchering Sunday. Great seeing Tim again. Please send them our love.
Good to see Tim again. Glad to see he’s doing well. We actually just ordered quail eggs to hatch. Really excited to start this venture. We are going to do a quail aviary and will use them for meat and eggs. Hopefully all goes well
You can usually fix splay leg if you can find a gentle way to hold their legs in the right position for a day or two. You have to do it soon after hatch. Try a small piece of sponge and medical tape.
I really enjoyed my quail. My problem was I was put in a position to move them in my travel bird cage and all 4 of them ended up jumping so hard they either broke their necks or knocked their heads so hard they ended up not being able to move right anymore. It was a sad experience. I look forward to building a proper cage for new ones when I move. They are make such delightful noises. It's also really funny when they look at you straight-on because it looks like they're grimacing at you like "we're doomed." 😂
I just attempted to hatch 30 eggs from SW game birds, 36 were shipped to my house in Florida, 35 went into the incubator because I flipped one on the floor getting it out of the foam. I also used a Nurture Right 360 incubator. Only 14 hatched, 5 had splay-leg, only one was corrected enough to survive, I do put a grip mat during lockdown. Of the ten that survived to feather sexing, I had two females. I called SW game birds about the low hatch, but they said it was my incubator. It was frustrating. Eggs on our little homestead hatch much better, 75-80%.
I've fixed spraddle leg with a straw and a little piece of rubber band in chickens, ducks, and geese. Once he strengthens up his muscles in the right way he should walk right again. You might try it next time you get one like that.
I am about to start another batch of 100 in the Incubator. I can only eat and freeze dry so many eggs. Add in all the chicken and duck eggs, I get almost 50 per day.
Coturnix quail are from Japan and they only fly in short bursts. This is an anecdotal story from the Bible, not recorded in actual history books. We may disagree about the validity of the Bible as a historical document, but scientifically, they are unable to fly high enough(on their own) to land on sails. This is why we keep them in 10"-5' enclosures, more than 10 inches and less than 5 feet is enough for the quail to break their necks.
Quail require a very hogh protein diet, so Buying feed for the Quail can be cost prohibitive where I live. We are trying to raise only livestock that we can grow or forage feed for. We have thought of growing mealworms in order to feed the quail, but haven't had time to put thar together, yet , since there is only myself to do it now.
TO prevent the splay legs use embossed paper towells or shop towells.....slick paper dont cut it........i lost lots of birds before I ffigured it out..........now i seldom see a splay bird!
I'm a quail farmer. Thousands at a time before now. Spraddle leg chicks get run over, trampled, pecked and smothered by the other chicks. Must be isolated if you want them to have a chance at survival
Have you ever considered making a removable tray by making a 1x2 frame and stapling screen to the bottom of the frame. Then you could just lift the frame out to remove the waste and when you put it back in wiggle it to get the sand to come back up through the screen.
Great content! At 8:23 you show how the water runs down to waterers. Is that some type of chicken run or just dead space? I had watched a previous episode when you showed the construction, but it focused more on the lower runs.
Single women with children would like to know how they can make money.i am homeschooling and i have some side hustles going but id like to know as living in the susburbs renting what i can do. I do miss living on 12 acres of land and we had chickens,but my ex husband was abusive and so im in this situation trying to find more ways to make money. God help the single mothers out there.not only is it lonely but its not easy being responsible for the car being fixed and all the other things that need to be paid.
When I was younger I enjoyed going to my grandparents farm. They raised many kinds of fowls. I liked the quails because they weren't mean like some of the chickens and the turkeys. were.
You guys might want to think about what will happen when the govt comes to take all your food and livestock.i have heard many people having dreams of this nature so heads up
Top Tip I saw on a Myshire Farms video The splay leg is from a lack of grip on a standard paper towel Use the blue automotive cloth towels The birds can grip it better and it solves the splay leg problem Happy birding
I had a chick I hatched, and it had sprayed legs, I put a bandage on it's legs to hold them together, and it did very well. Legs were fine and is still living.
We also use a brooder plate for our baby chicks. It is much safer than a heat lamp and uses approximately 1/10th the power. I've been in the HVAC Industry for over 20 years. Those temperature guns are designed to check surface temperature like Tim is doing. They are not designed to check air temperature like a lot of HVAC technicians do.
Love the opening comment on taking away the incentive. I remember you mentioning about how the guy at the trout farm wanting to give your kid a fish in another video. On quail, I was told there’s two extremes on building their enclosure, you either build the ceiling no more than 12in, or you HAVE to build it more than 7ft tall, anything in between, they’ll break their necks when jumping. We’ve been wanting to raise quail because of how prolific they are for eggs and breeding. We used laser temp gauges in the navy to check all sorts of things from main bearings, to individual exhaust manifolds on the main, and aux generator engines. Handy tool! I prefer pickled quail egg over chicken eggs haha. I absolutely thing quail is a well worthwhile bird for the homestead
Zachary, we miss you on New2Torah. We know what you’ve said what your reasons are, but you are missed and needed. You yourself have never claimed to be a guru or teacher or person to follow - you are a fellow traveler that a lot of people like to hear from. Still praying for you. I just want to encourage you. ❤
I’m just starting my quail adventure. I’m going with a large aviary 8 by 24 A frame. I’m also going to build a hutch for my initial group of quail and use it later as a grow out cage. I’m hoping to start with maybe 20, and hope to be harvesting 40-80 a month by fall! I’ll be building my own forced air incubator in early June! I’m mostly interested in meat production, with the eggs being a bonus!
You can correct straddle (or splay) leg. Use a small hair rubber band (the “ouch less” kind) and a section of a drinking straw. Tie a knot in the middle of the band and slip it through the straw. This creates a hobble. Put a loop on each leg and slide it all the way up. The hobble will hold the legs together. I saved two chicks last year with this method. One we cannot distinguish from the other hens, but the other stumbles a bit. She still lays eggs and became a pet because of her disability. She will have as happy a life as we can provide for her here until she dies naturally.
just started trying to hatch quail eggs from myshire farms. first time trying but like the pickled eggs and look forward to a good hatch, or at least mediocre hatch. have the cage boards cut but not put together and the wire bought and ready. thank y'all for all the info and sharing you do. have a blessed day y'all.
I raised a few quail to try it out . I liked the taste but for me it just seemed like alot of work and i didnt find it worth the effort. Id rather raise chickens
To screen the sand, I use an extra 8 frame wire base from my bee hives. Use an old hand scoop to help load it. For my sand areas takes just moments to capture poop...
I haven't tried it myself cause the problem hasn't occurred yet, but I have seen where you can use a bread twist tie, make like an eight shape around its feet. They have room to walk and it holds their feet under them til they strengthen. It's worth trying!
Good seeing Tim again. I went quail hunting at 10yrs old with a falcon who was to catch, kill and bring them to you. The falcon was still in training, it did go as planned.
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You can fix splay leg, cut a thin strip of bandaid length-wise, connect the ends (adhesive side in) slide it up above the knee/mid thigh and lightly pinch everything sticky together (so the legs are where they should be naturally). If done right they will still stand and hobble along. After a day or two gently remove the bandaid (be careful with the legs) and the legs will be normal. When done early enough this method will pretty much always work.
I've used vet wrap strips recently with great success too.
Painters tape works really well too.
I also use vet wrap, works wonders. Can fix curly toes with little cardboard "shoes" and a bandaid or painters tape, leave a couple days and toes are fixed.
Cool great to know they can still be helped 🥲
I understand how to fix it but I have a question...so I want those genes to propagate? Would it be better to tag that bird and just let it grow up for meat?
I live in South Florida in the suburbs. My daughter and I both raise quail at each of our homes. We raise them for eggs and for meat. In fact I just culled some today. I love being able to provide protein for my family even though I'm not in the country where I would like to be. However, Nana goes where the grand-babies go at least for now.
Gardening teaches so many lessons and not just about raising plants.
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I have large lot in an old subdivision. I have been thinking about rabbits and quail. The quail for meat and eggs the rabbits for the compost pile only.
@Americanhomestead Can you Please Please Please share some of your Pickled Egg Recipes
Just put a small elastic band around the quails legs to hold them together. After about 24hrs bc they grow so fast it will correct itself. I have had to do it with everything fro quail to ducks. Works every time. As for watering the garden, I water everyday when it is dry and my roots still go so deep I can’t pull them out at the end of the season. I think it really depends on a lot of different factors.
I hope to get quail again someday I love their eggs!
That is a great tip. Thank you so much for sharing that! I haven't experienced that yet with any of my birds, but it is definitely good to know.
Here's where giving your plants Shabbat off. That way they reach out for the water they're not getting for a day or so.
What do you feed your quail. They protein factories but they also need a lot of protein for their size. Just curious and thought your viewers may like to know if you raise any food for them or your other animals.
Awwwww, so good to see Tim. We miss him, such a blessing of a man.
Do the quail need a high protein gameboard feed? Intellectually I like the small space productivity, but are you able to feed off of the garden/ compost like chickens, or can they make weight on a usual 16% layer feed?
My only problem is what would you feed them if you couldn't get the high protein feed from the store 🤔 I feed mine lots of comfrey and meal worms but to grow the worms are a task themselves.
Dosen't you're ""over watering plants/ dosen't let the roots grow"" also kinda apply too humans? Things happen/ go wrong! We have too struggle! But better for it later! 🤔
Your quail setup is AMAZING! I had no idea about the ship sinkers! 😂. Quail are AMAZING as well.
We are interested in quail, they are delicious. I have a question. What do you feed them? I was looking at game bird feed and I thought it was a little expensive. Our hens layer feed costs less and they get scraps and extra from my veg garden. Can quail be treated the same or do they eat strictly grain feed? Thanks in advance and thank you for the video. 😊
Loved the tour!!
I hope you do more on quail, their health and how build a cage, in the future. #spicypickledeggs
Hi Zack.. I have raised quail on and off for 40 + years.. You're right they are Protein producing Machines. I have 120 that will be hatching on the 5th.. Thanks Zack..
Fun video. Your poultry area is pretty impressive.
We recently purchased 80 quail. Produce about 60 eggs a day. We also have chickens and Guinea fowl
I have babies hatching right now! Sunday we are butchering a bunch along with teaching a ,new to quail person, how to! Love my quail and the quick turnover rate. Hatch to egg laying around 6 wks. Hatch to butcher we do 8 wks! Breeder ratio 5 hens to 1 roo, so always extra roos for butcher. Eggs and meat nutritious and delicious!
Thank you for your breakdown. I've actually gotten into quail since end of May. I bought 4 hens and 1 roo several months old, so they've been mating and laying eggs. I decided to buy a small incubator that holds 7 eggs, and only 2 hatched. The 2 hatched are 2 weeks old and I believe both girls based on speckled chest feathers. I plan to keep them for eggs and mating with their dad.
So I decided to buy a bigger incubator that holds up to 24 quail eggs. I placed 15 eggs in the incubator a week after the 2 hatched girls and, and upon candling at 5 days two weren't fertile, but the other 13 are progressing fine. I plan to keep the hens and maybe 1 boy to switch with the dad and start mating with the mom's so I'll essentially have 2 breeder sets. The remaining birds I'll plan to cull (first timer here), and move forward with hatching the remaining eggs for meat.
Did I mention, I'm doing this all in a 1 bedroom apt, lol. Again thank you for the breakdown of when I can expect eggs to start laying and can start pulling for butchering. I initially was feeling overwhelmed on if I wanted to keep incubating, because I don't want an apt full of birds, but with the quick turnaround to be able to butcher and freeze that makes me feel better.
We’ve had chickens with spraddle leg that were cured by keeping them for a few days in an appropriately sized disposable cup. It keeps them upright until their connective tissues heal to the proper position.
Do you have a build video or rough schematics for your quail coops? Did you follow someone’s plan? They are really neat, and I’d like to model my new ones after yours.
Quail are a tasty bird. They are quiet compared to other birds you'd raise on a farm and that's good for city neighborhoods where you have trouble making neighbors who'd call your chickens in to the authorities. Quail take up much less space and they are easy to care for and they breed easily too. I had 20 and hatched 75 out 89 eggs from those 20 birds. With good stuff out of the way, cortunix quail are extremely messy eaters and have to have high protein diets everyday. Other than that they are easy to raise. Good luck if you raise them, they are alot of fun and they almost make music when they make noises. Beautiful birds too the kids will like. They also classified as gamebirds not poultry so the slip through the cracks of poultry laws in your local area.
Courtnix quail are native to East Asia ( also known as Japanese Quail) nowhere near Africa and Europe.
Have had quail for a few years after I developed a chicken allergy, they are great little birds and prolific. Incubating is required though so be aware that they do not go broody like other birds.
I started Qual because I'm alergic to chicken and there eggs. Developed in my early 30s. Then bout 6 years ago I ate raw quail egg on something without getting sick. Now it's smoked, fried, bufallo,etc quail.
I'm impressed by the temperature light! The feeder is a fantastic idea too. I need to show my little set up, because I could use some pointers as this is our first year raising quail. Ours are on week 10 and will be butchering Sunday. Great seeing Tim again. Please send them our love.
I hatched my first quail, they are 3 1/2 weeks old and they are nice and healthy. I love ya'll quail coop.
I'm raising my first run of coturnix now. I think I'm a week away from my first eggs.
Been eating wild and pen raised quail my whole life. A great recipe is grilled quail with cherry preserve glaze!
is wild tastier? cherry sounds great!
Good to see Tim again. Glad to see he’s doing well. We actually just ordered quail eggs to hatch. Really excited to start this venture. We are going to do a quail aviary and will use them for meat and eggs. Hopefully all goes well
How do they compare in taste to Cornish hens?
You can usually fix splay leg if you can find a gentle way to hold their legs in the right position for a day or two. You have to do it soon after hatch. Try a small piece of sponge and medical tape.
Turkeys I raised several over 40 lbs. It's lots of fun, do it
Thanks for the tip on using kerosene lamps to keep the chicks warm. 😊
I really enjoyed my quail. My problem was I was put in a position to move them in my travel bird cage and all 4 of them ended up jumping so hard they either broke their necks or knocked their heads so hard they ended up not being able to move right anymore. It was a sad experience. I look forward to building a proper cage for new ones when I move. They are make such delightful noises. It's also really funny when they look at you straight-on because it looks like they're grimacing at you like "we're doomed." 😂
I just attempted to hatch 30 eggs from SW game birds, 36 were shipped to my house in Florida, 35 went into the incubator because I flipped one on the floor getting it out of the foam. I also used a Nurture Right 360 incubator. Only 14 hatched, 5 had splay-leg, only one was corrected enough to survive, I do put a grip mat during lockdown. Of the ten that survived to feather sexing, I had two females. I called SW game birds about the low hatch, but they said it was my incubator. It was frustrating. Eggs on our little homestead hatch much better, 75-80%.
I've fixed spraddle leg with a straw and a little piece of rubber band in chickens, ducks, and geese. Once he strengthens up his muscles in the right way he should walk right again. You might try it next time you get one like that.
Thank you for sharing! This is very interesting I haven’t thought about raising quail
This was so informative, I have been considering trying some.
I am about to start another batch of 100 in the Incubator. I can only eat and freeze dry so many eggs. Add in all the chicken and duck eggs, I get almost 50 per day.
Coturnix quail are from Japan and they only fly in short bursts. This is an anecdotal story from the Bible, not recorded in actual history books. We may disagree about the validity of the Bible as a historical document, but scientifically, they are unable to fly high enough(on their own) to land on sails. This is why we keep them in 10"-5' enclosures, more than 10 inches and less than 5 feet is enough for the quail to break their necks.
Quail require a very hogh protein diet, so Buying feed for the Quail can be cost prohibitive where I live. We are trying to raise only livestock that we can grow or forage feed for. We have thought of growing mealworms in order to feed the quail, but haven't had time to put thar together, yet , since there is only myself to do it now.
TO prevent the splay legs use embossed paper towells or shop towells.....slick paper dont cut it........i lost lots of birds before I ffigured it out..........now i seldom see a splay bird!
Thanks for the video. I'm curious, IF and when we will not be able to purchase feed, are you growing anything to supplement your flock?? shalom
Lol but agreed blue def means it's a boy....the world is losing its way thank you for this helpful video
Read the manual those guns don't measure air temperature they measure solid surface Temps. H v a c contractors don't use them for that very reason
My setup is identical to his. Except for my brooder box. I was told that the Coturnix come from Japan, specifically but who knows?
I'm a quail farmer. Thousands at a time before now. Spraddle leg chicks get run over, trampled, pecked and smothered by the other chicks. Must be isolated if you want them to have a chance at survival
9:38 that would be terrifying being on a ship in the middle of the sea and seeing hundreds of quail coming right for you 😂
Have you ever considered making a removable tray by making a 1x2 frame and stapling screen to the bottom of the frame. Then you could just lift the frame out to remove the waste and when you put it back in wiggle it to get the sand to come back up through the screen.
Not allot of meat on quail. But, a nice alternative which can be less expensive than other types of poultry.
Subscribed to ya ! Thanks for the vids I just started my channel
Begs the question: What about feed? Researching how to DIY. Any thoughts?
Coturnix quail are from Japan. Other varieties are from the Middle East and Africa.
Great content! At 8:23 you show how the water runs down to waterers. Is that some type of chicken run or just dead space? I had watched a previous episode when you showed the construction, but it focused more on the lower runs.
I have the same Birds and mind doesn't fly. I've actually thrown them up in the air, and they come right back down
Thank you Zach for sharing another awesome video
That opening was FIRE. What a great message.
So good to finally see Tim.
I LOVE raising my quail!!
Single women with children would like to know how they can make money.i am homeschooling and i have some side hustles going but id like to know as living in the susburbs renting what i can do. I do miss living on 12 acres of land and we had chickens,but my ex husband was abusive and so im in this situation trying to find more ways to make money. God help the single mothers out there.not only is it lonely but its not easy being responsible for the car being fixed and all the other things that need to be paid.
I wondered about coturnix quail. I always heard they wouldn't set so how did they survive in the wild.
the anti liberal jokes throughout are annoying. yall need to stop thinking black and white 😂
When I was younger I enjoyed going to my grandparents farm. They raised many kinds of fowls. I liked the quails because they weren't mean like some of the chickens and the turkeys. were.
You guys might want to think about what will happen when the govt comes to take all your food and livestock.i have heard many people having dreams of this nature so heads up
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Top Tip
I saw on a Myshire Farms video
The splay leg is from a lack of grip on a standard paper towel
Use the blue automotive cloth towels
The birds can grip it better and it solves the splay leg problem
Happy birding
I had a chick I hatched, and it had sprayed legs, I put a bandage on it's legs to hold them together, and it did very well. Legs were fine and is still living.
Painful Jesus birds. Thought this video would be helpful, not so much
Another channel strongly suggested rabbit feeders for quail
Been thinking about getting into quail. Good video on it. Fortunately I'm inland and don't have a ship to sink lol.
We also use a brooder plate for our baby chicks. It is much safer than a heat lamp and uses approximately 1/10th the power.
I've been in the HVAC Industry for over 20 years. Those temperature guns are designed to check surface temperature like Tim is doing. They are not designed to check air temperature like a lot of HVAC technicians do.
Your humidity isn't gonna be right you didn't take off the B water cover and fill it if your in lockdown it's not gonna be a good hatch.
Do quail not incubate their iwn eggs naturally.
P.S. How is the fat content? One of the reasons I want to try geese is the high fat content.
You can make a bigger scoop out of a dustpan. Just cut a big square out of it and glue down some screen of your choice.
Love the opening comment on taking away the incentive. I remember you mentioning about how the guy at the trout farm wanting to give your kid a fish in another video.
On quail, I was told there’s two extremes on building their enclosure, you either build the ceiling no more than 12in, or you HAVE to build it more than 7ft tall, anything in between, they’ll break their necks when jumping. We’ve been wanting to raise quail because of how prolific they are for eggs and breeding. We used laser temp gauges in the navy to check all sorts of things from main bearings, to individual exhaust manifolds on the main, and aux generator engines. Handy tool!
I prefer pickled quail egg over chicken eggs haha. I absolutely thing quail is a well worthwhile bird for the homestead
Soak the quail red wine 24 hours with thyme and rosemary and garlic
Ok Zach
What's the secret to peeling those tiny quail eggs without tearing them to pieces???
You you can’t put in what little effort and time it takes to raise quail.., I dunno that hilarious…
The intro to the video says it all.
I'm interested. Also, Blue is for boys! 😁
Zachary, we miss you on New2Torah. We know what you’ve said what your reasons are, but you are missed and needed. You yourself have never claimed to be a guru or teacher or person to follow - you are a fellow traveler that a lot of people like to hear from. Still praying for you. I just want to encourage you. ❤
I’m just starting my quail adventure. I’m going with a large aviary 8 by 24 A frame. I’m also going to build a hutch for my initial group of quail and use it later as a grow out cage. I’m hoping to start with maybe 20, and hope to be harvesting 40-80 a month by fall! I’ll be building my own forced air incubator in early June! I’m mostly interested in meat production, with the eggs being a bonus!
You trim your tomato plants like I do. I thought I removed too many and they looked naked. :)
You can correct straddle (or splay) leg. Use a small hair rubber band (the “ouch less” kind) and a section of a drinking straw. Tie a knot in the middle of the band and slip it through the straw. This creates a hobble. Put a loop on each leg and slide it all the way up. The hobble will hold the legs together.
I saved two chicks last year with this method. One we cannot distinguish from the other hens, but the other stumbles a bit. She still lays eggs and became a pet because of her disability. She will have as happy a life as we can provide for her here until she dies naturally.
I’ve fixed Sparta legs in chickens.
How do you guys not know how to fix splay leg? It's wicked easy!
It attaches to 22 rifle, in the trigger. Th 3:09 en turn the handle, like a fishing reel. It fires the rifle like a machine gun.
Quail are very hearty birds. And easy to raise
just started trying to hatch quail eggs from myshire farms. first time trying but like the pickled eggs and look forward to a good hatch, or at least mediocre hatch. have the cage boards cut but not put together and the wire bought and ready. thank y'all for all the info and sharing you do. have a blessed day y'all.
I raised a few quail to try it out . I liked the taste but for me it just seemed like alot of work and i didnt find it worth the effort. Id rather raise chickens
Do you grow food for your quail? Or how do you feed them self sufficiently?
We love quail for eggs and eating . Small easy to care for and not alot of time before butcher. Love them.
I love pickled quail eggs. Easy to raise and process. We do raise jumbo wild. Have you tried quail meat pot pie vs chicken pot pie?
To screen the sand, I use an extra 8 frame wire base from my bee hives. Use an old hand scoop to help load it. For my sand areas takes just moments to capture poop...
That thermometer actually measures surface temperature 🌡 not air temperature.
You can go to a hardware store and get some steel wire and window screen and make a bigger sifter.
I haven't tried it myself cause the problem hasn't occurred yet, but I have seen where you can use a bread twist tie, make like an eight shape around its feet. They have room to walk and it holds their feet under them til they strengthen. It's worth trying!
your coturnix quail history is complete nonsense.
Good seeing Tim again. I went quail hunting at 10yrs old with a falcon who was to catch, kill and bring them to you. The falcon was still in training, it did go as planned.