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L in Ontario
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by L in Ontario » Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:28 pm
Beautiful!
When you incubated the eggs - how often did you have to turn them each day?
I just cleaned out my Quail pen completely today of all the shavings and 30+ eggs! Put in fresh Aspen shavings and a new hidy house (along with the original one). Praying they incubate their own eggs this time round. The first pair of Buttons did until I added another hen 6 weeks ago...
Liz
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BigBear0007
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by BigBear0007 » Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:48 pm
I don't want to sound cruel.
When I was about 15 years old, an Italian friend and his
brother raised them for Italian restaraunts in the area.
What do you do with them afterwards?
Sell them as pets or for meat?
I know here in Canada, we can buy quail eggs and hens for eating.
Jerry
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by cjkrit » Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:24 am
Bigbear,
I didn't know that some people would do that. No these ALL get taken to petshops- they are in high demand.
L,
My little incubator turns them automatically every hour. The last 3 days no more turning.
Greetings
Christo Kritzinger
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by Teresa » Sun Mar 27, 2011 6:06 am
They are all so precious! That's a lot of babies to take care of for the Moms! They must be super Moms.
Have a Happy Day! Teresa
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by 6finchfriends » Sun Mar 27, 2011 3:21 pm
So cute! It's a baby bonanza! That mom can't possibly keep all the chicks warm can she? they have beautiful feathering. What kind of noises do they make? We have wild quail here in Washington State but don't see them often enough.
Trish
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Summer Bird
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by Summer Bird » Mon Mar 28, 2011 1:13 am
BigBear0007 wrote:
I don't want to sound cruel.
When I was about 15 years old, an Italian friend and his
brother raised them for Italian restaraunts in the area.
What do you do with them afterwards?
Sell them as pets or for meat?
I know here in Canada, we can buy quail eggs and hens for eating.
Jerry
You're probably thinking of Coturnix quail, which are close relatives of button quail but are quite a bit larger. Eating a button quail would be much like eating a canary; they're extremely tiny. I've eaten Coturnix quail and found the experience of trying to separate the meat from all those tiny little bones frustrating. I can't imagine trying to eat a button quail.
To the OP, very cute babies!
Karen
I love my Gouldians, parrot finch and quail!
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by cjkrit » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:33 pm
At night I have an infrared heat bulb to help the mom in keeping them warm.
Christo Kritzinger
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by BigBear0007 » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:48 pm
Summer Bird wrote:BigBear0007 wrote:
I don't want to sound cruel.
When I was about 15 years old, an Italian friend and his
brother raised them for Italian restaraunts in the area.
What do you do with them afterwards?
Sell them as pets or for meat?
I know here in Canada, we can buy quail eggs and hens for eating.
Jerry
You're probably thinking of Coturnix quail, which are close relatives of button quail but are quite a bit larger. Eating a button quail would be much like eating a canary; they're extremely tiny. I've eaten Coturnix quail and found the experience of trying to separate the meat from all those tiny little bones frustrating. I can't imagine trying to eat a button quail.
To the OP, very cute babies!
Thanks, You are correct.
That's what I was thinking about.
Jerry
