Quail

[Irving]

I was talking about you to the waitress at the Buckhorn Exchange since they have quail on their menu. Maybe you should call them to see if you can supply birds for them.

[GilpinGuy]

I've had the quail there. Yummy stuff.

I have yet to really dive into the rules and regs for supplying restaurants yet. That would be sweet though. What's interesting is that quail eggs are treated differently by the law than chicken eggs. Maybe the meat is similar.

[sampson]

Nice. Pics of your new setup? Contemplating raising some.

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[GilpinGuy]

I have a rudimentary blog going that has pics and videos if you're interested:
www.raisingquail.net

[sampson]

Excellent. Looking forward to checking that out. My internet wont let me watch videos at the moment.

[GilpinGuy]

OK, totally blatant and shameless plug here (approved my the MODs).

I have Amazon affiliate links on the raisingquail.net blog. I made (gasp!) almost $10 last month. Soon I'll be able to quit my job and buy an island somewhere and retire.

If you'd like to help support the birds and you need something from Amazon, click on any link in the blog to get to Amazon and just buy whatever you want from there. We get a tiny commish and you pay the same that you would have if you just went directly to Amazon anyway. Thanks in advance to anyone who decides to do this. (hint: a bookmark to one of my links would be an easy way to do this )

We're trying out some new things on the blog:

I've started posting product reviews (one up so far) as well as a "preparedness topics" category. Some of the reviews will be of "prepper" related products. Others will be cooking stuff, quail stuff, etc.

I'm still plugging away on the book. This is a big project and I'm anal as hell so it's going to take a while. The plan is to offer it to subscribers of the blog for free for a certain amount of time, or maybe to the first 100, or whatever. Then it'll go on to Amazon. Anyway, it'll be fun to see what happens there.

Believe me, I do not have any illusions of making any serious money here. I just like to write and if I can support the birds through Amazon links, that's awesome.

And thanks to those who have sent me kind words and advice about the blog. I can use all the help I can get.

[Irving]

I don't know how I missed that you started a blog 5 months ago, but I read a few of the fuel related posts and it looks to be well done. Plus, I learned something. Thanks for the update.

[GilpinGuy]

Cool! Thanks for checking it out. Criticism is welcome BTW. I'm such a newb at this stuff.

[wyome]

Just spent an hour going thru the blog...neat stuff...what if you really don't want that many eggs? How do you regulate egg production ?

[GilpinGuy]

If you don't want so many eggs, you can just keep fewer birds. If you have too many birds, some just graduate to freezer camp and eventually to the grill.

It's easy to figure out how many birds to keep. Say you use about a dozen chicken eggs a week. 3 to 4 quail eggs equal one chicken egg, so you'll need to have 36 to 48 quail eggs to meet your needs. Round it off to 40 eggs.

You can assume one egg from each hen per day.

40 eggs / 7 days a week = 5.7 birds So 6 birds would meet your needs.

Unless you want to hatch chicks, roosters are useless. So you would keep 6 hens. And 6 hens would be so easy. A 3' x 2' cage would be just fine.

If anyone is interested in chicks let me know.