Raising Coturnix Quail for Meat and Eggs / The Best little DIY Quail Feeder / A little About Quail
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 มี.ค. 2023
- In this video I will be talking about the Coturnix Jumbo Wild Quail and a few of the simple facts about raising quail. Also, I show a simple DIY quail feeder I made that will keep the quail from wasting feed but yet simple to fill.
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THANK YOU! Looking forward to watching all you have posted so far and hoping to see new videos too! Bless ya!
Hello and Welcome to Papaw's Place, so happy to have more TH-cam friends.
If you ever have any questions feel free to ask.
Thanks again and God Bless!
I wish I saw this last year well done and thank you
Thank you!
If I can answer anything feel free to ask.
Thanks so much kind sir. My husband and i have learned much from you and will continue to. Appreciate your time, knowledge and willingness to share it. Blessings to you and yours.
Thank you much for all the views. God Bless!
definitely my favorite small homestead livestock. they require so little time, space and effort.
And very good eating.
@papawsplace yep, that may be the best thing about them.👍
i raise brown jap courtnix and have for a couple years. Easy to raise, keep ceiling lexx than 12 inches, 1"x1/2" for floor, water and food all the time must be availible due to speed of development. for chicks use 30 percent turkey starter then drop it to 20 to 25 % for the adults. Presently i use a 20 percent protein and add a bit of turkey starter ( 30%) from time to time. Adults seem to be ok with 20% but egg production may be a bit low. I use trays below my birds with compressed pine shavings ( 5 bux a bundle) which keeps the flys down and smell down.. Using the shavings is fast to clean and relitter the tray ( i do 10 trays in about 15 minutes ) and use the poo/shavings for garden ( its hot in nitrogen so it gets tilled in prior to planting across the winter. Ya all need a special type of sissor kind of egg opener as cracking dont get it! the sissor cuts the top of the egg off and is fast. Iffin you are gonna incubate 100.1 will work with 45% humidity for 15 days turning then 3 days rest at 65% humidity and make sure u have embossed paper towells or shop towells ( blue) under them or they get splay legs. IN the brooder line it with 5 or so layers to dispose as soiled and necessary but keep the paper towells till they are about 3 or so weeks old. Dump the food on the floor on the brooder early so they can access and always keep water near. Put some marbles or rocks in the water lip or they get in and drown. They are easy to raise, fairly quiet and if the neighbors ask what was the noise the male just made then shrug your shoulders and tell them that u guess it was some kind of bird. In the city they are pets and NOT FARM STOCK..... this circumvents the BS of code compliance. They are messy poopers and poop in the water and food trays. when birds get older I use a 1 dollar plastic shoe box with lid and put 3 plus 3 plus 1 plus 1 1.25" holes in the container as high as possible so the birds do climb inside the tray and scratch all over but the feed mostly remains inside the shoe box. If u use an open feeder they waste a lot of feed ( my guess is they waste near 40 percent and the shoe box means they only waste about 2-5 % at most so its a substantial savings.
Eggs taste great........different then the chicken eggs but very subtle difference.
Thanks Mr. John.
Thank you
You are welcome.
nice tip on feeder. I had rabbits before but had to move but kept the feeders and water. I will be raising rabbits again eventually and want to raise some quail also, so this is right up my alley. Thank you for taking time and sharing info. Have a blessed day.
Glad to be of help, thank you for the views and the comments.
Nice looking Coturnix! I sure miss raising quail! They are a wonderful birds.
Tasty eating also. LOL
Great video. Thank you
You are very welcome and thank you for watching and commenting.
Good info! Thanks for sharing.
Thank You Mr. James.
Thanks for this very informative video !
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Great information video thanks from England
Thank you much for the comment.
Really enjoying your channel from north Alabama .
Thank you much and as always drop in anytime and ask any questions.
Very good video, God Bless. I'm not as scared to do this after this video.
Thank you. Quail are as easy as chickens to raise. You got this.
GODBLESS MR PA!
Thank You
Hi bud , I’ve been thinking about these for a little while, my friend gets “pickled quail eggs “ and loves em , good enough he won’t share ! Lol , good video, thanks Eddie !!
They are easy to raise and fast return Mr. Bill.
Awesome vid :D
Spring is here! Better make a pool video soon ;)
Yea it's that time again.
Sir very nice cage
Thank you much!
Thanks for the info. I’ve got a question that is often ignored. When times get rough, and feed stores shut down, then what? Chickens are easy. Let them free range for food. Quail, on the other hand……
Thanks again.
If it came to it:
I could do the same as with rabbits and put them in tractor cages on the grass and move them around. Collect insects, weed seeds, berries, pecans, grow corn etc.
Thank you sir. I just knew you would have the solution. Have a blessed day.🙏
Oh those are truly beautiful birds! If I raised them I would keep them as pets. They are too cute. But they do produce eggs.
Coturnix Quail only live 2 to 3 years so you don't want to get attached.
@@papawsplace Very true!
Back when I raised quail my Bob Whites were extremely territorial. The Coturnix were much easier to raise and were more docile. The bobwhite quail We’re always very wild, no matter what I did.
Coturnix are a lot easier to raise for sure.
Great video as I’m beginning to gather information to do this. I haven’t looked yet, but do you have a video of how to process one?
I think I have an old video on how I processed them before I built the quail Plucker.
I just got my first batch of eggs, white wing coturnix. I look forward to more videos. I am wondering how is the feed costs in your area, and what age do you move them out of a brooder? Thank you for taking the time with your video. Have a blessed day to all of you there.
Here the feed is about $22 for a 50 pound bag. Moving them from the brooder depends on the time of year and the temperature, but for the most part I move them at two weeks of age.
thank you. the feed costs here are about the same as yours. to the brooder depends on whether and conditions. @@papawsplace
I just got 10. 1 male is a bully. He showed me all the other males bye trying to remove there heads. I’m a firm believer in the 1 male per group theory already. Thanks for the video
Yes sir, you can't keep males together they will kill each other.
Awesome video! Thank you for sharing this information. Me and my family are planning to start raising these quail for eggs and meat this spring. Do you have a recommendation for an incubator? Preferably a larger one to do upwards of 100+ eggs at once?
Thank you!
If money is no object, I would purchase the Surehatch Homesteader.
Thank you. Do you have any videos or tips for incubating the eggs?
I got a couple in my playlist from long ago.
Here in Louisiana I normally Dry hatch my quail then on lock down bring the humidity up to around 55 to 65%.
Now that I'm hatching chickens I feel the %humidity is more important from the start. But that's just my opinion. LOL
Do you have the coop staked or tied down to the ground? What feed do they eat? I bet they taste good grilled too.
It's not staked down but on the bottom of the legs are 5 foot runners to keep it from flipping. I feed 20% Breeder-Layer crumbles to my breeders and 28% Grower to my meat birds / chicks
Do you incubate or that the hens sit on them?
Incubate
How do you keep the smell down? I have heard quail get very smelly and I live in a neighborhood. I just dont want to make my neighbors mad lol
I empty the catch can once a week and anytime after it rains.
But still in the hot summer it's gonna put off a smell.
Do they lay in the winter or is it just spring
These are laying but I have a light that comes on 2 hours before day light.
What is the process for butchering them? I raise meat chickens, is it the same? Particularly the dispatching process?
Pretty much the same other than the dispatching.
Are they still good eating when they get older?
I always hatch out new stock at the end of every year and process the one-year-old birds, so one year old is about the oldest I've eating, and they are just as good as 10-week-old birds.
How far do you have to have the roof up so they don't jump up and break their Nick
Best cages for Coturnix is 12" high. The taller it is the more chance they will break their neck.
have you heard of anyone feeding crickets to their quail to supplement the game bird feed? Looking to reduce feed costs.
I've never heard of it but I guess if they will eat them it 's OK. I'm sure wild quail eat crickets.
You ever used quail in a pot pie
Never done that before.
Hi there and thanks. How can I get some of these quals?
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