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chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 11 6:17 pm Post subject: Quail
So, everyone has 35 baby quail in a box in the corner of the bedroom, right? I am going to take photos tomorrow!

Effie

Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Posts: 1087

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 11 6:32 pm Post subject:
No? An enormous Lego rocket launchpad, yes. Actual living things, no. I did find the world largest spider in the corner of my bedroom earlier. It's dead now though. I squashed it with a handy Dr Seuss book.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 11 6:35 pm Post subject:
Well done. Easy little things to hatch aren't they.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 11 6:37 pm Post subject:

Effie wrote:

No? An enormous Lego rocket launchpad, yes. Actual living things, no.

I did find the world largest spider in the corner of my bedroom earlier. It's dead now though. I squashed it with a handy Dr Seuss book.

it'll rain tomorrow now....

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 11 7:59 pm Post subject:
Not that poor Yorick will care much.

Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 11 7:41 am Post subject:
35 baby quail?!! Wow!!!

joanne

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7100
Location: Morecambe, Lancashire

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 11 8:27 am Post subject:
But they are noisy little gits despite being cute

Kenworth

Joined: 04 Apr 2011
Posts: 855
Location: Michigan

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 11 10:43 pm Post subject:
35 baby quail. Oh yay Chez. I imagine vast amounts of pickled quail eggs next summer. Better hurry with the recipe and washed up bottles.

Pel

Joined: 29 Mar 2008
Posts: 2366
Location: Sennybridge

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 11 12:38 pm Post subject:
Noisy, pooing stinky little gits you mean Had 12 once in the corner of the bedroom for a month, took weeks for the smell to go once they went outside.

shadiya

Joined: 02 Feb 2008
Posts: 1285

Posted: Fri Oct 21, 11 9:36 pm Post subject:
Hmm, quail.... Layers or eaters? I'm thinking of getting some as a cat food resource.... Maybe they'd be too cute to eat? This raw meat diet/vegetarian thing is going to be tricky.

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 11 8:22 am Post subject:
Both, Shadiya. The eggs sell for £2.30 a dozen and I plan to sell the boys for eating. And the girls too after six months - they come in to lay at eight weeks.

shadiya

Joined: 02 Feb 2008
Posts: 1285

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 11 7:36 pm Post subject:
How do you keep yours? I was reading some American book recently, permaculture thing, and it was talking about wild quail, which sounded pretty good to me. I've only really heard of people keeping them in aviaries and it all sounded a bit too much of a faff. I like the idea of semi feral quail on the farm, or, do I? Do they dig things up like chickens?

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 11 7:52 pm Post subject:

No. They fly straight up in the air at Mach 10, ricochet off a passing aeroplane and drop dead. Or are eaten by rats whilst stunned.

I am planning on keeping them in 4 foot by 2 foot wire cages (that the lovely Rusticwood is making for me), about eight to a cage, that inside sit on shelves covered with woodshavings or similar. In suitable weather (ie, not too cold, not too wet) I am going to lift them outside on to the grass.

They do seem to like to dustbath, so I am going to have to work that out for them. They are engaging little things - much more interesting than I thought they would be. I have six girls and a boy at the moment and they are quite tame.

I know Spiceycauldron (who I got some of my eggs from) keeps his in a multi-story house/pen thing. And Judith kept hers like that, but had an Unfortunate Rat Incident. I think free-range/semi-feral would probably be unwise, predator-wise. Their reaction to most things seems to be to either pretend to be a statue or to fly a million miles in the air making a noise like a macaw in distress.

Rusticwood

Joined: 01 Dec 2009
Posts: 2154
Location: All over the South West

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 11 8:32 pm Post subject:

Chez wrote:

I am planning on keeping them in 4 foot by 2 foot wire cages (that the lovely Rusticwood is making for me),.

They're nearly done

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35934
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Sat Oct 22, 11 8:35 pm Post subject:
does happy quail dance

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