Quail eggs

[Rjsand70]

Wanting to raise some Bob white for eggs has anybody done his not for box birds just for eggs I’m wondering what kind of enclosure I’d need and how to deal with extreme cold and heat.

 

[Pro953]

I cannot speak to bobwhites, but my son raised Japanese quail for a while as a 4H project. We just used a couple different rabbit hutch setups. They were pretty forgiving. We bought incubator and started hatching our own which was really fun. They did ok on the triple digit days here in California. I cannot speak to cold as we do not get much below 30 here on the occasional day.

Buy an egg cutter. It makes processing them a lot easier when you have 20-30 little eggs to “crack”.


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[Rjsand70]

I cannot speak to bobwhites, but my son raised Japanese quail for a while as a 4H project. We just used a couple different rabbit hutch setups. They were pretty forgiving. We bought incubator and started hatching our own which was really fun. They did ok on the triple digit days here in California. I cannot speak to cold as we do not get much below 30 here on the occasional day.

Buy an egg cutter. It makes processing them a lot easier when you have 20-30 little eggs to “crack”.


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Noted thank you!

 

[loganwayne]

i built a broader box on wheels for mine. 4'x8'x2' tall. i think. split it in 1/2 so i can grown two batches at a time.

Only thing i dont like about it is i hinged the whole top and it makes it to easy for them to get out when i feed and change water.

I lost a small group i hatched because i thought they had enough feathers and took the light off them and they died from getting to cold in the 20s that night inside my uninsulated shop.


my egg laying birds i took a pallet and put wire over it and built sides up and added legs so that it was off the ground keeps them nice and safe and easy to collect the eggs. keep about a dozen birds in it.