Raising Backyard Quail

But they do enjoy a box to duck inside of or shrubbery in their space.
Raising backyard quail. Make sure you raise them in sanitary conditions with plenty of light water and food. A beginner s guide to breeding and hatching bobwhite quail. If you are raising quail for meat you may need more than you think.
Eggs meat and more. Unlike chickens most city ordinances don t restrict or outlaw raising quail. It provides meat and eggs for my family and gives me a hobby.
I mainly do it because it is the highest form of farming my city allows on my small lot. 6 8 weeks to be exact. Quail are small wildfowl that can be raised in a backyard cage.
Qualis reach full maturity in a matter of weeks. When raising chickens you have to wait about 5 6 months for them to reach full maturity. They are quiet small even tempered birds that can produce about five to six eggs per week.
Unfortunately quail are not as common as chickens so you may have to do a bit of work to find them. Hatching and brooding your own quail can be a fun read more how to raise bobwhite quail. Even though quail are one of the smaller types of backyard poultry they can still make just as much of a mess.
To help prevent issues you can try these ideas. Where to get baby quail or adult quail. Due to the small size of the quail many people opt to raise quail in cages rather than quail coops.
Equipment needed to raise quail coop or cages. Raising quail in your backyard can be both fun and profitable. By backyard quail on january 11 2018 january 24 2018 there are many reasons to raise backyard quail but here are my top 5 excellent reasons.
Start raising quail by hatching quail eggs in an incubator and brooding the baby quail. The coturnix quail has been raised for thousands of years in japan as a meat and egg bird. A live coturnix quail is less than a pound so one isn t likely to be enough meat for an adult.
Wear a high quality air filter mask or at the very least wrap a bandana around you nose mouth and keep your mouth. Quail are quiet and need much less space than chickens. Instead of 10 sq feet per chicken quail only need 1 foot.
I keep anywhere from 20 50 birds at a time with 18 dedicated to eggs and the others in various stages. Well with quail you don t have to. If your cage is indoors set up a box fan with a furnace filter taped to the.
This matters because if you are raising them for meat you might not want to wait that long. Coturnix quail to not perch so they don t need a roost.