Hi... Am Dinesh from India .. Am about to enter to into raising quail and marketing.. Your videos were really helps me a lot and you had given more than enough information on your every videos.. i have done my research and studies on quail for quite sometime.. probably by next month ill be starting my shed construction and so on.. eagerly waiting for the next month... Thanks again for the video...
I want to thank you for sharing all that you know, it's actually giving me the confidence to be more self sufficient and feed my family..... Bless you all at Myshire Farm 😊
Thanks for all the info and glad you are back. BTW, I notice you have trouble with my name on the Sunday live chats. "Cumberlachia" is a combination of the mountains we live in here in East Tennessee. The Cumberland Mountains, which are part of the Appalachian Mountains. So it is pronounced "Come"-"Bur"-"Latcha". I laugh every time you skip over it and just say Gregs Kitchen....have a great rest of your week.
I've been hatching out quail initially bought from you a couple years now. With your advice, tips and tricks Ive been very successful. Your videos they seem to be geared toward production at a high octane. Could you consider doing a video on more self sustainability in quail? What you could do during a feed shortage.
The biggest issue I've had, since I keep them outside, is raccoons. The quail are not smart, and the raccoons get them out of their sandboxes somehow at night and grab a toe, or a head, or a beak or a feather or something on the edge of the cage, or from underneath of the cage, etc,, etc, and pull them out a little at a time! It's absolutely unbelievable how they get them! I've had to fortify the cages 6 ways to Sunday to put a stop to it. Lost dozens of quail figuring out the vulnerabilities and preventing it. As far as brooders go, I've always used heating plates not bulbs. Heating plates are not a fire hazard, use very little electricity, and aren't putting the chicks in an unnatural light cycle. I have no clue why people are still using heat lamps when heat plates work great!
We use heat lamps because they grow so quickly and we put so many in a brooder (200) instead of raising the heat plate daily we use a bulb and just feed them. Our water is automatic so we are looking at it to be as efficient as possible and our barn is solar powered.
@@MyshireFarm On the scale you're doing it, that might make sense. I raise the heat plate about every 4 days or so. Basically, whenever I clean the brooder out. No need to raise the plates every day. You slope them a bit so the chicks can find the height they prefer. It's practically no work. If I was going dozens at a time, I would simply use 2 or 3 heat plates.
I forgot to ask in the last live chat: how do you deal with the self sufficiency issue of feed for the birds? How long will feed store? How to do that best? Is it realistic to grow your own quail feed. It seems doable for chickens as they’re omnivorous. But the quail seem a bit tricky. I do raise mealworms and get tons of black soldier fly larvae in the warm months (which is most months in Texas). I’m very curious if anyone has effectively made feeding the quail doable without outside inputs.
Long story short your looking at pastured birds if your looking for no input but forage and fodder . Downside you will not have as large healthy or as productive birds from this method and you will need land as about 50 quail will strip a 20x20 patch of grass in a week and turn it to dirt so you will need to move them frequently . I love quail and would love to promote it as a good food for subsistence living but chicken is easier and better as you can free range them and you cant with quail
I am a carnivore. I eat 18 large chicken eggs a day. How many Jumbo Coturnix quail eggs would that equal to? 3 or 4 to one large chicken egg ? Thank you Eric 😊
We would love to get into quail. I'm from South Carolina, and there are Bobwhite quail in their natural habitat. Can you share resources on raising Coturnix vs Bobwhite? Thanks! ETA: I'm sentimental about Bobwhite because they're native.
We don’t raise bobwhites due to so many regulations. Quail are not native so very little to no regulations plus bobwhites are seasonal layers and Coturnix lay year long
One question i do have on my hutch build. I am considering doing a solid floor vs the hardware cloth floor. Any opinions on whether a solid floor would be better or worse?
With live quail we are only shipping mixes. Hatching eggs you can get just jumbos. You can request to get jumbos in live quail but I can not guarantee it.
Great video! For people looking into quail.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi... Am Dinesh from India .. Am about to enter to into raising quail and marketing.. Your videos were really helps me a lot and you had given more than enough information on your every videos.. i have done my research and studies on quail for quite sometime.. probably by next month ill be starting my shed construction and so on.. eagerly waiting for the next month... Thanks again for the video...
That’s great! Good luck!!!!
I have done so much research and when I get the house that can do it, I am 100% ordering quail
Good luck and I am sure you will do great!
Got 81 hatched today and are still hatching I do love quail..
Awesome congrats!!!!!!
I want to thank you for sharing all that you know, it's actually giving me the confidence to be more self sufficient and feed my family..... Bless you all at Myshire Farm 😊
You are so welcome! Glad we can help
I received my incubator last week and just started making my brooder today.
That’s great! Congrats and good luck
Been watching your video's all week. Placed my order today. 🤜🤛
Thanks and good luck on your journey.
Thanks for all the info and glad you are back. BTW, I notice you have trouble with my name on the Sunday live chats. "Cumberlachia" is a combination of the mountains we live in here in East Tennessee. The Cumberland Mountains, which are part of the Appalachian Mountains. So it is pronounced "Come"-"Bur"-"Latcha". I laugh every time you skip over it and just say Gregs Kitchen....have a great rest of your week.
Good to know thanks
Great video Zack.
Thanks
Welcome back! Excited for more videos!
Thanks
I've been hatching out quail initially bought from you a couple years now. With your advice, tips and tricks Ive been very successful. Your videos they seem to be geared toward production at a high octane. Could you consider doing a video on more self sustainability in quail? What you could do during a feed shortage.
Sure I will get that on out to do list and good luck on your adventure
This would be nice and I would watch 100%, but he has a massive amount of info base on this channel
The biggest issue I've had, since I keep them outside, is raccoons. The quail are not smart, and the raccoons get them out of their sandboxes somehow at night and grab a toe, or a head, or a beak or a feather or something on the edge of the cage, or from underneath of the cage, etc,, etc, and pull them out a little at a time! It's absolutely unbelievable how they get them! I've had to fortify the cages 6 ways to Sunday to put a stop to it. Lost dozens of quail figuring out the vulnerabilities and preventing it. As far as brooders go, I've always used heating plates not bulbs. Heating plates are not a fire hazard, use very little electricity, and aren't putting the chicks in an unnatural light cycle. I have no clue why people are still using heat lamps when heat plates work great!
We use heat lamps because they grow so quickly and we put so many in a brooder (200) instead of raising the heat plate daily we use a bulb and just feed them. Our water is automatic so we are looking at it to be as efficient as possible and our barn is solar powered.
@@MyshireFarm On the scale you're doing it, that might make sense. I raise the heat plate about every 4 days or so. Basically, whenever I clean the brooder out. No need to raise the plates every day. You slope them a bit so the chicks can find the height they prefer. It's practically no work. If I was going dozens at a time, I would simply use 2 or 3 heat plates.
Love the channel! Have you made a video on how to build a quail incubator with turner? I searched but did not find one on your channel.
We have a few videos under the playlist papa builder of things
I forgot to ask in the last live chat: how do you deal with the self sufficiency issue of feed for the birds?
How long will feed store? How to do that best?
Is it realistic to grow your own quail feed.
It seems doable for chickens as they’re omnivorous. But the quail seem a bit tricky. I do raise mealworms and get tons of black soldier fly larvae in the warm months (which is most months in Texas).
I’m very curious if anyone has effectively made feeding the quail doable without outside inputs.
Long story short your looking at pastured birds if your looking for no input but forage and fodder . Downside you will not have as large healthy or as productive birds from this method and you will need land as about 50 quail will strip a 20x20 patch of grass in a week and turn it to dirt so you will need to move them frequently . I love quail and would love to promote it as a good food for subsistence living but chicken is easier and better as you can free range them and you cant with quail
You can make your own feed but I don’t recommend it. A general layer feed works just fine for them. This is more of a high productive layer
Working on my hutch so i can buy some quail from you!
Awesome. Good luck and I am sure you will do great
I am a carnivore. I eat 18 large chicken eggs a day. How many Jumbo Coturnix quail eggs would that equal to? 3 or 4 to one large chicken egg ? Thank you Eric 😊
3 per 1 chicken egg
We would love to get into quail. I'm from South Carolina, and there are Bobwhite quail in their natural habitat. Can you share resources on raising Coturnix vs Bobwhite? Thanks!
ETA: I'm sentimental about Bobwhite because they're native.
We don’t raise bobwhites due to so many regulations. Quail are not native so very little to no regulations plus bobwhites are seasonal layers and Coturnix lay year long
Im from india
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One question i do have on my hutch build. I am considering doing a solid floor vs the hardware cloth floor. Any opinions on whether a solid floor would be better or worse?
Solid is fine just a lot more time cleaning and buying straw or hay. The wire bottom is just easier up keep and less maintenance. But either works
Id like to get some live birds from you id like the jumbo wilds but just those not a mix new to quail.
With live quail we are only shipping mixes. Hatching eggs you can get just jumbos. You can request to get jumbos in live quail but I can not guarantee it.
Ok thank you for reaching out.
Raising quail is addictive.....
Yes it is
Angus steak 😋
Absolutely
Three birds per square foot? Is that for growing them out because I was always under the impression that breeders need about a square foot per bird.
No it is 6 chicks per sq ft in brooder and 3 quail per square foot in cage. If it is 1 sq ft per bird they will get territorial and aggressive
No it is 6 chicks per sq ft in brooder and 3 quail per square foot in cage. If it is 1 sq ft per bird they will get territorial and aggressive
Interesting. I may not have to build extra coops should I decide to have more quail in the future. Thank you.
What about inbreeding? How do you manage that?
We do have videos on that. But inbreeding is really not an issue in coturnix
Went check the pansy today after putting the hen with the roo. He had attacked them so have to do it artificialy
You need 5 hens to 1 male and also we have a video on how to put quail together without fighting.
they were fine at the start he had done the same to another female he was with for a long time. So i'm keeping him seprate for now @@MyshireFarm
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