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Old 06-25-2010, 02:45 PM
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anyone ever raise quail? Thinking about getting into it here soon and just curious of other peoples experience. I'm not doing this as a living or anything just looks cool and thought i may try it out for the eggs and meat. Also curious on the different breeds so if you did raise them what type and pros and cons. Will probably do this in conjuction with 5 or 6 chickens.
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Old 06-25-2010, 02:48 PM
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idk but dem eggs is some kinda goood
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Old 06-25-2010, 02:51 PM
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I know a guy that used to raise quail, and a bunch of different birds. He made a few dollars off of it, but then he got out as the Feds became more and more intrusive and the licenses and such got expensive. If I remember correctly, they can enter your property at any time to spot check your operation.

He had done this for 30+ years and quit.

Hate to be a buzz kill, but it's da troof.
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Old 06-25-2010, 02:56 PM
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wonder if a permit is required to raise them if im not selling them
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Old 06-25-2010, 02:58 PM
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idk but dem eggs is some kinda goood
dats what im talking bout and expensive to buy, would have to have some beer drinkin/pickling saturdays i can see it already
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got a buddy of mine that has some and pickles the eggs just for himself and friends, there is a place in new iberia that sells them (same people that own the dirtbike track) fairly cheap, i think he bought 60 to start with for about a hundred bucks, he gets about 10 eggs or so a day, talk about good
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Old 06-25-2010, 03:05 PM
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i found the eggs for sale and thinking about starting that way so i know how to do the whole process later on, plus gives me time to make my pens
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Old 06-25-2010, 03:14 PM
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PM me your number and I can help you out on this. We used to raise bobwhites, ringneck pheasant and Rio Grande turkey. We raised about 3000 quail per year.
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Pharoah quail produce well and give a fair amount of meat and eggs and you don't need any wildlife permits for them. They're really not that hard to raise, just got to keep a light on them at night when they are small so they don't bunch up and smother.
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anyone ever raise quail? Thinking about getting into it here soon and just curious of other peoples experience. I'm not doing this as a living or anything just looks cool and thought i may try it out for the eggs and meat. Also curious on the different breeds so if you did raise them what type and pros and cons. Will probably do this in conjuction with 5 or 6 chickens.
Man if you can get those things to cross breed that'd be awesome -- I guess they'd look like cornish game hens that could fly! ! !
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Quail is one of my favorite meats by far. I always think about getting this thing called a Surragator to stock
them to hunt on one of my properties. Check it out, www.surragator.com
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my bad, try this.

http://www.wildlifemanagementtechnol...urrogator.html
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Old 06-27-2010, 11:23 AM
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While Deer hunting this past fall, I jumped a covey of quail at CC WMA.

That has not happened to me since I was a Teenager. I have heard a few and seen singles, but not a covey.
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While Deer hunting this past fall, I jumped a covey of quail at CC WMA.

That has not happened to me since I was a Teenager. I have heard a few and seen singles, but not a covey.
dad sees some in ragley where i hunt at, would be cool to introduce a couple hundred out there and possibly hunt them in a few years, that surrogator is neat would think you could build something like that for a lot less than 1800 bones
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Old 06-28-2010, 09:25 AM
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dad sees some in ragley where i hunt at, would be cool to introduce a couple hundred out there and possibly hunt them in a few years, that surrogator is neat would think you could build something like that for a lot less than 1800 bones
Yeh I been talkin with a few of my buddies. If 4 or 5 of us got
together and put up few hundred bucks each. We each have diff pieces of property we could use it on. So we could just move it around from different pieces of property and have more places to hunt!
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Old 06-28-2010, 09:32 AM
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dad sees some in ragley where i hunt at, would be cool to introduce a couple hundred out there and possibly hunt them in a few years, that surrogator is neat would think you could build something like that for a lot less than 1800 bones

Lets just get some turkeys and restock ragley...oh wait...it's Ragley, they wouldn't make it to the season
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Not too sure I buy into that surrogator. Predators, disease and natural selection take a lot of birds out. Also, when these birds are released, they no longer have those walls to protect them.

On average, if you buy 5 week old birds that have already been in a flight pen, 2 of 5 will not survive the first night. That's because they've never been exposed to "real" elements. Those that survive the first night have a good chance of making it on the predator aspect anyway.

If you want to get and keep a quail population, more of it has to do with weather and land management than anything. I.E., extremely wet springs are hard on the broods.
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Shawn, a con would be the amount of "RATS" birds always draw to your property. Buddy in Laf raised ducks and geese and he had some "RATS" wearing gold chains and sporting Mercedes Medalions around de necks.
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Old 06-28-2010, 11:21 AM
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Shawn, a con would be the amount of "RATS" birds always draw to your property. Buddy in Laf raised ducks and geese and he had some "RATS" wearing gold chains and sporting Mercedes Medalions around de necks.
yeah i guess that would be a downfall, have to get a case of millers and a 22 with rat shot for fun on the weekends
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Old 06-28-2010, 11:56 AM
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yeah i guess that would be a downfall, have to get a case of millers and a 22 with rat shot for fun on the weekends
Rat shot would not phase my buddies, guess those FUBU's is tough.
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