God bless you Pastor. We thank you for your kind words. Taking a stand for our faith often draws some negative comments but Jesus said it would be like this. We will always be bold in our faith. He is always bold in His love for us.
OMG!! This man thought of EVERYTHING!! These will be some happy quail. Nancy, I know you're proud. He even installed a humidifier!. Yes, some happy healthy birds. Makes some tasty meat. I do remember that much. Congratulations to you both. I hope those with very limited space has been paying close attention. Quails and rabbits, don't require a lot of space. But, good detail to be happy and healthy. You got 5 videos here to get going. I'm hoping my grandchildren are paying attention. I'm watching this again.. Lol, this is better, than the old Sears catalog.. Peace
Nice to see the completed quail processing plant after watching the steps and builds to get to the point where all that is left is to "farm" the quail. The homestead looks great and can hardly wait to see the crops and animals providing for you and family...good job! God bless and keep you and yours safe and healthy in these troubled times.
Very nice system, my wife and I raised Quil in the past to train our bird dogs since we have retired and no longer bred dogs or hunt anymore, we released the few birds we had and they went on the have clutches in the wild on our farm. Ruth used to call them and feed them what grain we had, believe it or not, they use to follow Ruth around when she would call them. Very great experience. Wish you well and God Bless.
That's funny that Nancy said, "Close the window," because at 7:50, when you talked about going around the corner and processing the birds right outside the hutch, that was my first thought, LOL. "I hope they close the window." :) Congratulations on the completion of what looks like a great setup. By His hands, we are fed. Your little dog is so adorable.
I love your videos. You may want to consider wiring in an automatic time clock for your lights in your hutch’s so you don’t have to be there to turn them on and off.
I'm so glad I came across your channel! Planting taters in buckets tomorrow and also putting in walla wallas today! Thank you for sharing! May the Lord bless you!
I am envious when I see all the great things he builds. Everything is so nice-looking and accurately put together. Dang! I wish I could do that kind of work.
Fantastic carpentry & well organized set up! I also like Nancy's suggestion of adding the window because I had the same thought!😁 I've never eaten quails before...I assume they taste similar to chicken? Thanks for the tour! Much Love & Many Blessings!❤🥰❤🥰❤
Aww. Beautiful set up but I thought video 5 of 5 would have had quail. Looking forward to seeing the set up in a few months after you been running the quail to see how it does. :)
YIKES, I was thinking the same thing: "harvesting" them right outside the window. The others could be a nervous wreck. (Yes, I am a vegetarian and animal lover. I appreciate how you live and take care of them; but there I things I couldn't do.) I like how professionally you build everything, very neat and attractive on your property. God bless.
What a great tour of the fabulous, detailed quail operation. Mind boggling! Like the Hilton for quails. I laughed out loud upon hearing Nancy’s suggestion about closing the windows during the “Silence of the Lambs” procedure. Who said the truth is never funny? Two million thumbs up Hollis, for an OUTSTANDING accomplishment! Bless you both...
Hi, Hollis you are awesome. God has bless you to be able built all your necessary things for your homestead, Nancy You lucky girl!!...Blessing to you two, also Bing Bing Laura M.
I LOVE THE PROCESSING STATION and the video about building it!! I see an outdoor sink and processing station in my future! ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for creating these OH SO HELPFUL videos!
Thanks for the tour. I think I am ready to build mine. I would also love to see a tour of the whole barn. Every time we see your barn, my wife says, honey that's the same size barn you need to build us...…….lol....Well I do need a place to park my Kubota tractor and riding mower when I start the quail project in their area...….TFS
Love your set up!! I raise meat chickens. I'd love to get into raising quail some day. I'll be taking notes! :-) Also, thank you so much for boldly sharing your faith! Looking forward to more videos and seeing the results of your hard labor! Have a fun, and God bless!!
So funny. I was just thinking..oh, those poor birds will have to watch their friends getting slaughtered, and then you mentioned that you'd be closing the window for that reason.
@@HollisNancysHomestead Thanks! I'm definitely looking forward to it. I never considered raising quails for meat until your series. Just rabbits and chickens.
Love your videos. I hope you will do a follow up video once you get the quails in. Would also love to see your rabbit set up. Started with some of your gardening ones (taters in buckets) and this series caught my eye. We live in a mobile home park so we have very limited room. Your garden tips will be very useful.
You have a great knowledge of gardening, I really enjoy watching. I am new to your channel and have seen your urban garden which is truly fantastic. I am curious have you moved out into the country?
Yes, we moved to our dream rural homestead in Florida in November 2017. It is 15 acres. It was wooded so we had an extremely difficult journey bringing the new homestead to life. We are nearing completion now. Should be 100% by this time next year. We have about half of the garden complex up and running now. Working on new vegetable growing videos now. We should be able to start releasing them in a couple of months👍
I like that you're separating the eat vs. breed stock. Inbreeding 3 gens produce quail chicks that can't stand up. (Swish around like frogs). If you have raccoons, you might lock in the catch tray to stop the raccoons from pulling it free and pulling the quail legs thru, maiming the birds in horrible ways.
Hollis, I have so enjoyed all that you have accomplished in your new home. I do have a question about the drying racks. Will you also be using them to harden off your starts like you did at your old home? May the Lord bless and keep you.
I can't believe I missed that. LoL... I've etched ou all along since you started in Virginia. I just moved from Alaska to WV in Nov last year and am finally getting my garden going. I'm in the same stage as you ... building frm your blueprints. Thank you Hollis and Nancy for all the time and effort you spend to share. I'm 75 and need all the help I can get. Hahaha
Hi guys love your instructions on gardening and raising quail I want to start my own garden and quail farm but need help what to do please help sign rookie
We couldn't tell from the video, and we didn't see anyone else asking.... Are those Gadsden shorts? Or was that some sort of beehive or hut? If they are gadsden shorts...where did you get them?
Coturnix quail are dark meat. Texas A & M ones (white in color) have more white meat. That's my understanding anyways from all the hours I have researched it. Hope that helps.
@@karihayes5448 I've hunted a lot of quail and all of them I have ever taken were white meat. Gambels quail, scaled quail, California quail, ruffed grouse,Partridge, sharptail, they have all been white meat.
Two tips I got off other vlogs Are Buy small coloured zip ties for the quail legs A different colour of zip ties for different batches of quail So it's easy to keep track of their ages. On a different vlog A man said, You can sex the quail By the shape of the eggs Before you put them the incubator So you can get a lot of female chicks He said the round shaped eggs produce female chicks And the pointed ones make male He also said, The pointed end of the male egg If you run your finger over the pointed end you should feel something like a minute thorn That is usually too small to see He has had 100% success with this method I have tried it yet I take delivery of my quails next week
Rule of thumb is 4 quail per sq foot. I don’t like to cage that many. In my hutches I usually keep it around 25-30 for the meat birds hutch and 8-12 for the egg layer hutch.
@@HollisNancysHomestead will they be killed before they are dispatched? dispatching is what you do to a train, harvesting is what you do to a crop. i would just call it what it is. i'd kill a chicken any day and eat it but i don't need to sugar coat the act of doing so :-D sorry that i have to give you a little bit of a hard time for the weird terms you use :P
i also saw one quail farm once that was strictly used to make "raw" dog food. the conditions were absolutely awful. for this reason i'm giving you major props for trying to make them a really nice home and even sand to play in and they can go inside and out, it's really great. ;)
Why do you use wood for processing table top instead of stainless steel which would be more sanitary? I don’t even use wood cutting board to cut raw meat.
Do you know what stainless costs? Besides, butchering a chicken and butchering a quail are two different things. with quail you can actually field dress them right there on the table and it would be totally sanitary.
I would move your processing table right away from the other birds for humanitarian reasons. Very important in my books otherwise fantastic lots of hard work obviously on your part, maybe as you grow with them put up a big outside cage with hutch combined God bless you guys pat on the back.
hot water..... polyurethane floor varnish 4 coats minimium on table...... sewage ejector pump to sanitary sewer....stink, vermin, flies and maybe board of health. neighbors compltnts. people here go to the state.....we are plumbers, we get to cleanem up..... just sayin. raz
So I’m a pastor and first I want to thank you for unashamedly living out your faith. God has blessed you with many wonderful talents
And you are using those talents to point people to what it means to do things one step at a time. Keep up the great work!!’🙏❤️🙏
God bless you Pastor. We thank you for your kind words. Taking a stand for our faith often draws some negative comments but Jesus said it would be like this. We will always be bold in our faith. He is always bold in His love for us.
OMG!! This man thought of EVERYTHING!! These will be some happy quail. Nancy, I know you're proud. He even installed a humidifier!. Yes, some happy healthy birds. Makes some tasty meat. I do remember that much. Congratulations to you both. I hope those with very limited space has been paying close attention. Quails and rabbits, don't require a lot of space. But, good detail to be happy and healthy. You got 5 videos here to get going. I'm hoping my grandchildren are paying attention. I'm watching this again.. Lol, this is better, than the old Sears catalog.. Peace
It's so much healthier to have your own meat and egg source. Blessings
Nancy's a compassionate women. I would close the window too.
Yes
NICOLE LEONARD 😡 is this all you have to do with your free time
@@maltipoosoffgrid6868 there retired, they run a farm/ranch. I would do the same if I had the land.
@@Michelle_Collie what?
Oh, Hollis, that is quite the deluxe setup! Great work there. ~Cynthia
Thank you kindly!
Nancy and I have the same train of thought. 😄 Close that window!
Yes
Nice to see the completed quail processing plant after watching the steps and builds to get to the point where all that is left is to "farm" the quail. The homestead looks great and can hardly wait to see the crops and animals providing for you and family...good job! God bless and keep you and yours safe and healthy in these troubled times.
Thank you, blessings
Awesome setup! Can't wait to see it in full swing. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
My daddy used to bird hunt. Mostly dove, but occasionally quail, which was my favorite. Dredged in seasoned flour, fried, and smothered in gravy!
Sounds great!
Very nice system, my wife and I raised Quil in the past to train our bird dogs since we have retired and no longer bred dogs or hunt anymore, we released the few birds we had and they went on the have clutches in the wild on our farm. Ruth used to call them and feed them what grain we had, believe it or not, they use to follow Ruth around when she would call them. Very great experience. Wish you well and God Bless.
Thanks for sharing, all is well
That's funny that Nancy said, "Close the window," because at 7:50, when you talked about going around the corner and processing the birds right outside the hutch, that was my first thought, LOL. "I hope they close the window." :) Congratulations on the completion of what looks like a great setup. By His hands, we are fed. Your little dog is so adorable.
Great minds think alike. Blessings
I have been following for a while, prior to you all moving. I am very happy for you all and unbelievably impressed with what you all are doing!
Thanks for watching! Stay tuned, the best is yet to come👍
I love your videos. You may want to consider wiring in an automatic time clock for your lights in your hutch’s so you don’t have to be there to turn them on and off.
I'm so glad I came across your channel! Planting taters in buckets tomorrow and also putting in walla wallas today! Thank you for sharing! May the Lord bless you!
Hollis and Nancy - we miss you in Maryland but we can tell you are very happy in your new homestead
Beautiful setup! I just made your grow bed for 5 gallon containers, we’re going to try and grow some potatoes!
That is awesome!
Good for you sir ! you gave a lot of thought to the happiness of the birds. from my experience...happy birds leads to less stress for us.
Well said!
nice! Hollis you should 90 the drain away from your feet. wet feet aren't fun
I did
I love you all. I wish that i lived closer so you can build me a chicken coop. You do great work. Hi Nancy!!!
Blessings
I am envious when I see all the great things he builds. Everything is so nice-looking and accurately put together. Dang! I wish I could do that kind of work.
I love your quail set up Hollis. You may have said once before have y’all decided what type of quail y’all are going to raise.
Jumbo Coturnix Meat Makers
Nothing but quality work from you. Quite a set up. I really enjoy being part of your adventure. TFS❤
Fantastic carpentry & well organized set up! I also like Nancy's suggestion of adding the window because I had the same thought!😁 I've never eaten quails before...I assume they taste similar to chicken? Thanks for the tour! Much Love & Many Blessings!❤🥰❤🥰❤
It's like eating dark meat of chickens. Blessings
@@HollisNancysHomestead Hmmm! That's the best part!😋 I will have to give quail a try!🥰👍🥰
Love, Love, Love this TH-cam channel.
I LOVE this family!!!
Tammy Lynn Schulz. ☝️🙏😊❤
Thanks
Aww. Beautiful set up but I thought video 5 of 5 would have had quail. Looking forward to seeing the set up in a few months after you been running the quail to see how it does. :)
Complete quail raising series this fall
Thanks for the tour BingBing!
❤️🐶❤️
Wow looks amazing!! I can't wait to see all the baby quails running around. God bless
Videos coming soon
Love your quail system
Thank you
I look forward to each and every video. Amazingly blessed!
Wow, thank you!
YIKES, I was thinking the same thing: "harvesting" them right outside the window. The others could be a nervous wreck. (Yes, I am a vegetarian and animal lover. I appreciate how you live and take care of them; but there I things I couldn't do.) I like how professionally you build everything, very neat and attractive on your property. God bless.
LOL, we understand
This is an Asian way of grabbing the birds through their kitchen window. I used to be a realtor & saw this a few times.
What a great tour of the fabulous, detailed quail operation. Mind boggling! Like the Hilton for quails. I laughed out loud upon hearing Nancy’s suggestion about closing the windows during the “Silence of the Lambs” procedure. Who said the truth is never funny? Two million thumbs up Hollis, for an OUTSTANDING accomplishment! Bless you both...
Hi, Hollis you are awesome. God has bless you to be able built all your necessary things for your homestead, Nancy You lucky girl!!...Blessing to you two, also Bing Bing Laura M.
Thank you so much! Nancy here I am truly blessed. Bing Bing sends kisses
Those gonna be some happy birds! Excellent setup. Something tells me your gonna be happy too..
We are very happy with the set up, it will bring years of meat & eggs for the homestead
Looks great. I ate a lot of quail, squirrel and rabbit growing up because I had so many uncles and cousins who loved to hunt.
Oh wow! It's delicious
I LOVE THE PROCESSING STATION and the video about building it!! I see an outdoor sink and processing station in my future! ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for creating these OH SO HELPFUL videos!
:-)
everything looks great! can't wait for more videos of the homestead!
More to come!
This is absolutely amazing!! I’ve been waiting for the full tour! I love your setup so much.
Glad you liked it!!
Thanks for the tour. I think I am ready to build mine. I would also love to see a tour of the whole barn. Every time we see your barn, my wife says, honey that's the same size barn you need to build us...…….lol....Well I do need a place to park my Kubota tractor and riding mower when I start the quail project in their area...….TFS
Sounds good! Thanks for watching
I love when you do Tour videos!! God bless you all. :)
More to come! Blessings
Love your set up!! I raise meat chickens. I'd love to get into raising quail some day. I'll be taking notes! :-) Also, thank you so much for boldly sharing your faith! Looking forward to more videos and seeing the results of your hard labor! Have a fun, and God bless!!
Lovely video! I am starting with quails this spring, 2021. Your property is beautiful!!
You will love raising quail. 👍👍👍
This is a really beautiful set up
Very nice setup. I pray it is working out for you. Enjoy yourself say Hi to Nancy and Mr. Bing for us.
Thank you, I will
Glad I came across your channel thanks for sharing and I'm now subscribed
Love your setup! Can’t wait to see your planting videos. I imagine they’re is a big difference guarding in Fla as opposed to VA
Coming very soon. Our homestead is much bigger than Virginia but our videos will still be applicable to home gardeners
This is so exciting I can hardly stand it! Soooo, tell me, when are the first eggs going in that incubator?
We will be releasing a complete quail raising series this fall
Awsome job 😎
Thanks 😁
the set up looks great. - Ruthie
thanks
I hope you show us the quail when you get them, please.
I love yours and Nancy videos
We will be releasing an entire Quail Raising Series in September👍
So funny. I was just thinking..oh, those poor birds will have to watch their friends getting slaughtered, and then you mentioned that you'd be closing the window for that reason.
Yes
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Loved going through the process with you. Can't wait to see it all up and operational. Will you do a quail harvesting video?
We will be releasing a complete quail raising series this fall which will include a harvesting video
@@HollisNancysHomestead Thanks! I'm definitely looking forward to it. I never considered raising quails for meat until your series. Just rabbits and chickens.
We eat them often and enjoy them very much. Very tasty👍
@@HollisNancysHomestead Thanks for the extra encouragement.
Can't wait to see the hatching...................
Coming this fall
Love your videos. I hope you will do a follow up video once you get the quails in. Would also love to see your rabbit set up.
Started with some of your gardening ones (taters in buckets) and this series caught my eye. We live in a mobile home park so we have very limited room. Your garden tips will be very useful.
We have videos coming very soon
@@HollisNancysHomestead thank you.
Nice set up!
Thanks!
Amen!
You have a great knowledge of gardening, I really enjoy watching. I am new to your channel and have seen your urban garden which is truly fantastic. I am curious have you moved out into the country?
Yes, we moved to our dream rural homestead in Florida in November 2017. It is 15 acres. It was wooded so we had an extremely difficult journey bringing the new homestead to life. We are nearing completion now. Should be 100% by this time next year. We have about half of the garden complex up and running now. Working on new vegetable growing videos now. We should be able to start releasing them in a couple of months👍
You have nice set up
Thank you Jim
I like that you're separating the eat vs. breed stock. Inbreeding 3 gens produce quail chicks that can't stand up. (Swish around like frogs).
If you have raccoons, you might lock in the catch tray to stop the raccoons from pulling it free and pulling the quail legs thru, maiming the birds in horrible ways.
Hollis, I have so enjoyed all that you have accomplished in your new home. I do have a question about the drying racks. Will you also be using them to harden off your starts like you did at your old home? May the Lord bless and keep you.
No, I have a dedicated hardening table in the seed starting area
I can't believe I missed that. LoL... I've etched ou all along since you started in Virginia. I just moved from Alaska to WV in Nov last year and am finally getting my garden going. I'm in the same stage as you ... building frm your blueprints. Thank you Hollis and Nancy for all the time and effort you spend to share. I'm 75 and need all the help I can get. Hahaha
The seed starting area won’t be released until July
Love the videos
Thanks
Quail are awesome birds but I'm a little prejudice since I love bird hunting. They are the best game meat of any I have tried!
Agree
Where you get that humidity kit and what’s the model please love it
Stromberg’s
What are your favorite tomatoe types and why.
Hollis I've watched all the Quail build videos. you never made one on building the brooder.
That is true. I lost the footage on that video. Sorry☹️
Predict, have max 20 birds per pen space. Maybe 60. Very well crafted.
I average 15 birds per cage. At times when I am ramping up meat production I have 30 in the meat hutch
@@HollisNancysHomestead It is enough. God Bless!
Hollis, You need a third pen for grow out hutch that allows the birds to grow up to be breeders. I miss Nancy. I know she's behind the camera.
Thanks for sharing, Nancy sends her love
Hi guys love your instructions on gardening and raising quail I want to start my own garden and quail farm but need help what to do please help sign rookie
Everything you build looks great. But I’m curious why the quails can’t be raised outdoors on the ground?
Good question! You can as long as you have a cage. This system make it easier to maintain.
Love the video living a dream 😍
We always dream about having quail. Now we are living our dream.
Do you give them grit like chickens to get them started?
No. We use quail starter 30% protein
Nice setup! I am incubating Coturnix quail on my channel!
We couldn't tell from the video, and we didn't see anyone else asking....
Are those Gadsden shorts? Or was that some sort of beehive or hut? If they are gadsden shorts...where did you get them?
Will you be raising rabbits for your meat supply?
Yes we will
What breed? I raised New Zealand Whites for years! I now only raise meat chickens and layer chickens.
Hollis do you have chickens ? If so do you have plan's for building a large coop ?
Yes, chicken set up video series will continue tonight at 6:00pm
Hi. Nice set up ! Are quail like chicken with white n dark meat? I've seen videos, but nobody has ever said. Peace to you and yours
Coturnix quail are dark meat. Texas A & M ones (white in color) have more white meat. That's my understanding anyways from all the hours I have researched it. Hope that helps.
Thanks for helping with new people
@@karihayes5448 I've hunted a lot of quail and all of them I have ever taken were white meat. Gambels quail, scaled quail, California quail, ruffed grouse,Partridge, sharptail, they have all been white meat.
Have you seen Cogg Hill family when then had all there quail 😂😂
is that a controller next to the incubator, what kind is it?
th-cam.com/video/ac6EG_BT7SU/w-d-xo.html
Two tips I got off other vlogs Are Buy small coloured zip ties for the quail legs A different colour of zip ties for different batches of quail So it's easy to keep track of their ages. On a different vlog A man said, You can sex the quail By the shape of the eggs Before you put them the incubator So you can get a lot of female chicks He said the round shaped eggs produce female chicks And the pointed ones make male He also said, The pointed end of the male egg If you run your finger over the pointed end you should feel something like a minute thorn That is usually too small to see He has had 100% success with this method I have tried it yet I take delivery of my quails next week
That’s some good tips 👍. Thanks
If I am a quail, I would love to live there. 😀
LOL
Lula Ram......Me too, as long as I would never get transferred over to the meat pen! 🤣🤣❤
@@tammyschulz2231 Yes, stay in the egg production area.
😊👍🏻
:-)
Just curious...why not chickens and ducks?
We are raising chickens, turkeys and rabbits in addition to the quail👍
How many quail Can you house at any one time with your setup?
Rule of thumb is 4 quail per sq foot. I don’t like to cage that many. In my hutches I usually keep it around 25-30 for the meat birds hutch and 8-12 for the egg layer hutch.
I would still put a 45 on the bottom of the sink outlet at least
I hard piped the drain off around the corner of the building
Is there a video about your move? What happened? Had you been saving up for your dream property, and this new farm is answered prayer?
This is a life long goal for us. We sacrificed and saved for many years to get here. With God’s help and blessing we are living our dream
will the birds be killed before they are harvested or are you going to harvest them alive?
The birds will be dispatched then cleaned
@@HollisNancysHomestead will they be killed before they are dispatched? dispatching is what you do to a train, harvesting is what you do to a crop. i would just call it what it is. i'd kill a chicken any day and eat it but i don't need to sugar coat the act of doing so :-D sorry that i have to give you a little bit of a hard time for the weird terms you use :P
i'm just kidding m8. killing the birds is nothing to be ashamed of, that's nature. we can call it harvesting if it makes you feel more comfortable :D
i also saw one quail farm once that was strictly used to make "raw" dog food. the conditions were absolutely awful. for this reason i'm giving you major props for trying to make them a really nice home and even sand to play in and they can go inside and out, it's really great. ;)
We believe in making our animals as comfortable and happy as possible while in our care. 👍
Now time for rabbit's.
Working on it
I have enjoyed your gardening videos but, I will pass the quail part! May God have mercy on them!
It’s not for everyone
Why do you use wood for processing table top instead of stainless steel which would be more sanitary? I don’t even use wood cutting board to cut raw meat.
Do you know what stainless costs? Besides, butchering a chicken and butchering a quail are two different things. with quail you can actually field dress them right there on the table and it would be totally sanitary.
I would move your processing table right away from the other birds for humanitarian reasons. Very important in my books otherwise fantastic lots of hard work obviously on your part, maybe as you grow with them put up a big outside cage with hutch combined God bless you guys pat on the back.
hot water..... polyurethane floor varnish 4 coats minimium on table...... sewage ejector pump to sanitary sewer....stink, vermin, flies and maybe board of health. neighbors compltnts. people here go to the state.....we are plumbers, we get to cleanem up..... just sayin. raz