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pamike
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« on: April 09, 2006, 02:20:11 PM » |
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I keep hearing how people are pickling thier quail eggs. Are the eggs fertile or not? if not how do you get them to lay infertile eggs? I am going to get some eggs or chicks to start a small flock of quail for eggs. I am going with coturnix because here in PA you need a special permit for bobwhites because they are a wild bird living within the state.
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mike
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jchiar
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« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2006, 02:27:58 PM » |
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makes no difference if they are fertile or not
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« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2006, 04:28:42 PM » |
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just remove the males, and you have infertile eggs.
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pamike
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« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2006, 04:33:09 PM » |
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so if I have females in fens with no males they will just lay eggs that are infertile? I know this works with chickens but I had no idea it would with other birds.
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mike
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posilock
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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2006, 09:34:28 PM » |
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mike i hatched 2 cortinex hens and by 8 weeks old they were laying eggs everyday no males they are just like chickens!
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pamike
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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2006, 03:01:02 PM » |
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That is great.
mike
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birdlover
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« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2006, 01:22:33 PM » |
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hi,
but can the coturnix quails be let out to roam like chickens?
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« Reply #7 on: July 01, 2006, 03:25:14 PM » |
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No.
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« Reply #8 on: July 01, 2006, 05:08:22 PM » |
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They can get out and roam if you don't mind them roaming into the next county.  |
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« Reply #9 on: July 01, 2006, 08:54:15 PM » |
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hi,
yeah, i understand that quails have the wild instinct and don't have the roaming instinct that other birds like chickens have. I just wanted to see if there was a type of quail that lost that wild instinct, that i could raise.
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« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2006, 12:12:32 AM » |
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The developed varieties of quail, what would be considered the "domestic" quail, actually do better if raised on wire. They don't have the disease problems that birds raised on the ground have. If you keep in mind their need for space, and this is different for each species and variety, they are happy in this environment. Raised on the ground, they will have worms and other parasites to content with. I for one hope we don't have a quail that turns into a chicken. There are more than enough breeds of chicken right now to go around.
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« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2007, 08:16:37 PM » |
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One of the reasons the corturnix does not do well roaming free, is they do not roost at night and are always roaming at night and they do not last long that way..I have turned hundreds of them loose and they just do not last,but they do have a tindency to stay close by..
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