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Wow ,, sounds like a lot of work ,, but it also sounds profitable . How many quail do you figure you had at your peak ?? I may look into it a little more .

 

Very nice and a heck of a write up Ms smilesattheworldandtheworldlightsup!
Sadly I like hot spicy pickled quail eggs and beer.
This combination is somewhat gaseous in nature.
Still good stuff!

 

I got tired just reading it. Good job.

 

thought about chickens or ducks, may give these some more consideration too, look to be easier to care for than the others, i'll look into it some more thanx Alanaana. have you ever had any of the other birds to compare to? feed use? care, cleaning? honestly looks a lot easier to me but never raised any birds at all, everyone i know has either chickens or ducks (sometimes both) but no quail.

 

thanks for the extra info, i'll give them some serious thought, didn't want anything to high maintenance. the size of the eggs doesn't phase me, i can compensate for that, just want enough to care of the missus and me. if i have any other questions i'll be sure to ask, not going to do anything right now but may in the near future.

 

I tried Quail eggs, but their tiny size and too-easily-frangible eggs (hard to keep fragments out of it), just don't work for me. I favor duck eggs. Much larger, even larger than Jumbo Chicken eggs, and a better tasting yolk. Just my opinion.

 

thank you, will do for sure, will have to see if any eggs are available for consumption around here just to try them. you used to know someone who raised quail/pheasant/etc. for hunt clubs to hunt. they'ed buy half a doz. to 2-3 doz. depending on what they wanted to hunt, they'ed release them on a farm and hunt for cpl days, told my friend (his farm) any left over were his to catch!

 

Quail are funny little birds. Some years ago at my county's outdoor range, we were shooting our rifles when we noticef a single quail strutting on the ground about 10 yards from us, paying no heed to the bullets passing over his little punkin' head! We yelled at him trying to get him to leave, but he was likely deaf by then. We continued shooting, making sure to not hit him.
We once had a young deer get onto the range to, but we called cold range and he soon jumped the far fence and left.

 

Used to see wild quail, when I worked for the Navy, in Guam (back in the 90's). Usually a male with his brood following, as they crossed the road in the Navy fuel tank "farm". Occasionally, you'd even run across 2 males, duking it out over the attentions of a female!
Not sure how well they'd do, here in the cold of a NY winter?

 

Ostriches next?