PBN Special: Dave Jones IC Quail Q&A

[00:00:07] So I'm going to basically go through where I'm at in my thought process and then follow through kind of till till I'm ripping heads off and then we'll we'll call it from that point.

[00:00:22] So basically, I'll give you my plan maybe and you tell me if what I'm missing.

[00:00:28] Starting with I kind of well, I'm torn.

[00:00:32] Okay, so I'm torn on do I want to buy I've been wanting to buy an incubator anyway, because I don't have one.

[00:00:40] But at the same time, with the election so close, I also just want quail here.

[00:00:46] Yeah.

[00:00:47] And I don't want to wait for eggs to hatch and chicks and manage all that and then something goes wrong.

[00:00:52] Six months before you get production up.

[00:00:54] Oh, see, that's a stat I didn't know, but that makes sense. Like chickens pretty similar.

[00:00:58] So, so when you buy mature, you got a wait time on that? Are they pluck it? I mean, are they popping eggs out right off the bat?

[00:01:07] They'll be mature, mature to eat in six weeks.

[00:01:27] I gotcha. Okay.

[00:01:30] You want to expand your flock those eggs out.

[00:01:45] So it's survival of the fittest.

[00:01:50] So how many do you guys gather and incubate and how often? Or is that a Maria thing?

[00:02:14] I've been recording.

[00:02:23] Right.

[00:02:36] Well, I'm always going to have eggs because of my current chickens.

[00:02:39] So the quail eggs, the quail eggs are kind of a cherry on top.

[00:02:43] What I really want the quail for is if things well, what I really want the quail for is an option of repeatable meat.

[00:03:04] Okay.

[00:03:31] Okay, you start to see it.

[00:03:33] You start to see them losing feathers and stuff.

[00:03:35] Yeah, it will. Yep.

[00:03:36] So what do you guys do? Eat the mean ones first?

[00:03:58] Bro.

[00:03:58] Yeah, okay, because they'll just be wild.

[00:04:01] Yeah.

[00:04:33] I think I was looking at it today.

[00:04:42] Yep, I was looking at it today.

[00:04:54] Okay.

[00:04:55] So it...

[00:05:04] I gotcha.

[00:05:05] Here's my, here's my plan on...

[00:05:07] Well, I'm going to get the high protein feed anyway.

[00:05:10] Here's my plan.

[00:05:11] I know you've never been to my yard, but I have a dog kennel chain link fence.

[00:05:19] Nice.

[00:05:19] I'd say it's about...

[00:05:20] I don't know.

[00:05:23] What is it?

[00:05:24] Maybe seven feet.

[00:05:26] It's probably like a seven foot box.

[00:05:30] Like around.

[00:05:31] Like the perimeter is probably seven foot lengths of fence.

[00:05:34] And I got bird netting over the top of that.

[00:05:37] And that's where my chicken coop is inside that fence.

[00:05:47] It's the old clover setup, right?

[00:05:55] Or what a greenhouse is.

[00:06:05] Oh, for sure.

[00:06:28] Oh, that's a great idea.

[00:06:40] So this is kind of my thought.

[00:06:41] And I know you don't do them this way, but let me know what you would think.

[00:06:46] Around the...

[00:06:47] Now that you know the setup, I'll keep the chickens in there.

[00:06:51] The chickens are in my yard most of the day.

[00:06:54] Yeah.

[00:06:54] They come out of that coop.

[00:06:56] They do what the hell they want to do.

[00:06:57] That's why they wind up getting yanked all the time.

[00:07:00] But I like the eggs.

[00:07:02] You know what I mean?

[00:07:02] They forage and get out.

[00:07:03] It's good.

[00:07:04] My plan with the quail to upgrade their sort of living situation a little bit or downgrade

[00:07:10] it depending on how often they get killed too, was I was going to shut that gate up.

[00:07:15] I was going to, you know, maybe about midday.

[00:07:19] By midday, all my chickens have laid.

[00:07:21] I was going to shut the gate.

[00:07:24] Before the quail arrive, I'm going to add fine chicken wire to the bottom half of the gate.

[00:07:31] Then, around midday, I'm going to shut that gate up and let the quail run inside of that gate.

[00:07:37] Because there's grass in there, there's bugs in there, all that kind of stuff is in there.

[00:07:42] Do you think that would be a nightmare?

[00:07:44] Is that a bad plan?

[00:08:17] So maybe I'd have to wrap the entire fence.

[00:08:20] It's about seven feet tall too, maybe, or six feet tall.

[00:08:24] I'd probably have to wrap that entire fence with chicken wire.

[00:08:27] Oh, you could throw it on top of them?

[00:08:36] I got plenty of nets, but...

[00:08:49] Yeah, that makes sense.

[00:08:51] You ain't catching them little things with your hand, I guess.

[00:08:54] Yeah, I do.

[00:09:02] You can do it.

[00:09:05] Okay, well that's good.

[00:09:07] Alright, so we bring them in, we bring them in mature by purchase.

[00:09:15] Still get the incubator for the next generation.

[00:09:20] And what do you put their feed and water in?

[00:09:31] That makes sense.

[00:09:54] That's the way I do my chickens.

[00:09:55] Same setup.

[00:09:58] Five gallon bucket.

[00:10:00] Yeah.

[00:10:01] Yeah.

[00:10:01] Okay, that's a good one.

[00:10:03] I like that.

[00:10:03] Yeah, because if that feed, that feed will be double almost what I pay.

[00:10:07] Yeah.

[00:10:07] For my chicken feed.

[00:10:22] Yeah, because they're little, I guess they don't eat that much.

[00:10:25] Yeah.

[00:10:26] Makes sense.

[00:10:28] Do you water them like with...

[00:10:30] What do you put water in?

[00:10:46] I got a screw top, chick feet water, you know that kind?

[00:10:52] Yep.

[00:10:52] That's what we use.

[00:10:53] That probably would do it, okay.

[00:10:55] Yeah.

[00:10:56] Alright.

[00:10:56] And now they're...

[00:11:29] Like in the cage?

[00:11:36] Yeah, oh yeah.

[00:11:37] That makes sense.

[00:12:07] Yeah.

[00:12:08] That makes sense.

[00:12:09] Okay, so we're feeding them, we're gathering eggs on the regular.

[00:12:14] When you guys, I'm assuming gather eggs in the morning just like chicken eggs and you just

[00:12:21] set aside, you're assuming all eggs are fertilized, you set aside...

[00:12:25] Yeah.

[00:12:26] Yeah.

[00:12:26] The ones that you want to incubate.

[00:12:29] Do you start incubating like, like if you know, alright, I'm gonna take 24 out of this

[00:12:35] flock and freezer camp them.

[00:12:38] Yeah.

[00:12:39] When do you start incubating?

[00:12:41] You probably do it before you kill them, right?

[00:12:57] They're just...

[00:12:57] To just eat them.

[00:13:01] Yikes.

[00:13:02] Yeah.

[00:13:03] Yeah.

[00:13:04] Yeah.

[00:13:06] Yeah, the little plastic ones.

[00:13:30] Plastic ones.

[00:13:33] Yeah.

[00:13:33] Yeah.

[00:13:33] Oh, cool.

[00:14:02] You know, you could...

[00:14:03] You could...

[00:14:05] What, um...

[00:14:06] What do you...

[00:14:07] Now you guys are gonna do more than me of course, but what do you guys normally butcher?

[00:14:12] How many?

[00:14:13] Oh my gosh.

[00:14:28] Okay.

[00:14:29] It is.

[00:14:32] Okay, I gotcha.

[00:14:39] I bet they do.

[00:14:41] Yeah.

[00:14:42] Okay, so you put head and cone upside down, cut the head off, and then you leave them in

[00:14:46] there to drain a little bit or no?

[00:14:51] Yeah, that makes sense.

[00:14:52] They're tiny.

[00:14:53] Yeah.

[00:14:54] Chickens don't have much either, so...

[00:15:03] Cut the wings off, skin it.

[00:15:05] Maria skins them, I know that.

[00:15:07] I've seen them before.

[00:15:25] Well, that's an easy enough butchering process.

[00:15:28] Geez.

[00:15:50] So does she...

[00:15:52] I guess she, uh...

[00:15:54] She removes the entrails and stuff just like a chicken?

[00:16:03] Uh...

[00:16:04] Cause it's small.

[00:16:14] Okay.

[00:16:15] I like that.

[00:16:17] Oh yeah.

[00:16:18] No scalding, that's a pain in the ass.

[00:16:20] No removing all the feathers, that's a pain.

[00:16:22] Yeah, no scalding.

[00:16:33] So then we got them dunking them in ice water or putting them on ice or something like

[00:16:37] that as you go.

[00:16:38] In here.

[00:16:45] Okay.

[00:16:50] But...

[00:16:50] Yeah, that's fine.

[00:16:58] What do you guys do?

[00:16:59] Do you ziplock bag them?

[00:17:01] Yep.

[00:17:02] Zip block bag, one to a bag, five to a bag?

[00:17:05] What do you do?

[00:17:06] Well...

[00:17:12] That makes sense.

[00:17:49] It's like a cage match in there.

[00:17:51] I believe that, yeah.

[00:17:59] That makes sense.

[00:18:01] So what do you guys do now?

[00:18:02] Bob?

[00:18:03] Bob White or something like that?

[00:18:04] And what is the...

[00:18:29] What is the best time, best age for harvesting for meat?

[00:18:57] That's the dinner bell?

[00:18:59] Yep.

[00:19:00] Okay.

[00:19:01] Six weeks is nice, man.

[00:19:03] I saved to Maria.

[00:19:08] Yeah, there you go.

[00:19:12] Well that, man, that's a hell of a wrap up right there.

[00:19:16] Quails from start to finish with Dave Jones.

[00:19:21] Quails from egg to freezer.

[00:19:23] I highly recommend them.

[00:19:46] They are the covert foods, meat sorts for sure.

[00:19:56] Wow.

[00:19:56] Well, it makes sense.

[00:19:57] The high protein diet.

[00:19:59] Yeah, that's...

[00:20:11] That's a real protein solution on the shelf right there.

[00:20:17] All right, Dave.

[00:20:18] I appreciate it, man.

[00:20:19] This was a 20 minute bonus here.

[00:20:22] I think I'll probably give it out to our members first.

[00:20:24] Let them look it over and then give it out to the greater good.

[00:20:28] Oh yeah.

[00:20:35] Well, shoot, I got everything I need right here on the phone if I run into any problems,

[00:20:39] you know?

[00:21:21] That's phenomenal.

[00:21:22] Well, I hope to have the same outcomes, man.

[00:21:25] I'm looking forward to it.

[00:21:28] Any issues with winter?

[00:21:36] Yeah.

[00:21:37] We will.

[00:21:40] Like on the front there?

[00:21:45] Okay.

[00:21:45] Cool.

[00:21:52] Yeah, yeah.

[00:21:58] The epic survival bird.

[00:22:01] Yep.

[00:22:01] The quail.

[00:22:02] He went to Boom Hill style,

[00:22:02] Thank you.