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Ask ds--QUAIL
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:27 am
by SCOOTER
Looking into hatching a few, been hatching chickens for a couple of years, any thoughts.Have a fly pen ready.
Any north Ms quail breeders on here to talk with, just wont to raise to eat and my dad to shoot.
Re: Ask ds--QUAIL
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:16 pm
by arduckslayer
SCOOTER wrote:Looking into hatching a few, been hatching chickens for a couple of years, any thoughts.Have a fly pen ready.
Any north Ms quail breeders on here to talk with, just wont to raise to eat and my dad to shoot.
PM my dad, The Waterfowler. He's bought some good quail from a guy near the Southaven/Hernando area.
Re: Ask ds--QUAIL
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:04 pm
by duckhunterdoc
you can probably get plenty of advise on raising them...but getting flight conditioned birds that act any thing close to wild birds is another trick...along these lines,some of the best things I have seen are just regular feeders, bird seed, or grain..may have to mix in some flight pellets or gradually move them over to "seed" , so if they survive the hunt, they might make it in the wild, But mainly, food and water system needs to be low maintenance..ie the less they see humans ,the wilder they will act...one guy I heard of would take his dog in the pen with him (muzzle on the dog) any time he had to go in the pen in the day ( night trips they were usually huddled in a corner) but you could do the dog then too.. if they started acting tame. make sure the flight pen is where you can force them out in the weather (rain) (dew) to help flight condition the feathers... since very few breeders go to all this trouble we just started using a flush dog with the pointers, the Tamies might not run from your legs but they ain't hanging out with a Dogs Nose/mouth/teeth...that gave my retriever some extra fun,and we worked on "heel" "stay" "dead" a lot...Good Luck!
Re: Ask ds--QUAIL
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:09 pm
by duckbuster101
This website backyardchickens.com has a forum for quail and they also have people that you can buy from and lots of information on incubating them and what not.
Re: Ask ds--QUAIL
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:58 am
by TJAMES
My brother and I have been using a guy from Nesbit (just south of Memphis). His quail are by far the best if you are intrested in buying them to train a dog and shoot. They are always excedptional fliers, not like the tame birds that just jump in the air and let you smoke them. If you need his info give me a call 618-304-0856