Coturnix Quail Anyone?

[baymule]

They make good fried eggs. A yolk in every bite!

 

[baymule]

They make great pickled eggs too!

 

[flowerbug]

That sounds like a way I could eat organs. Tiny, no chewing required.

off with my head!

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Finally got around to butchering some quail yesterday. Started out with 12, but fumble fingers dropped one. I have no idea why Raine and Karma thought it was a doggie treat. Took an hour from cage to kitchen.

Before the final cleaning:

Those look really good.

So are they about the size of a cornish hen?

(we also have a Kharma for a pup)

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

Splitting sounds good to me! 50 is still too much for me, maybe @hardknockhomestead too?

50 is a hair too much probably here too but I could make 25 work!

 

[Alaskan]

They were quite young, but they got along fine. Might have been because they were younger. I have one pen now though that has three mature males in it and they're pretty ok together.

Do you have any girls in with them?

I would hatch them and keep them together until sexual maturity, eat the extra boys.

Once or twice I actually raised them with chicken chicks until the quail were at sexual maturity.

 

[Rammy]

Just came across a farm that ships quail eggs.
B & D Game Farm - Home (bdfarm.com)

25 eggs for $25.00 includes shipping
50 for $34.00 incudes shipping
100 shipped eggs for $53.00 includes shipping


Murray McMurray sells day old chicks
Murray McMurray Hatchery - Assorted Coturnix Quail

Hope somebody will join me in raising these cool little birds.

The first link wont work.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

The first link wont work.

Weird - it just worked for me...