I love this. It takes me back to the war years in London, England when I was a boy. I used to buy day old chicks from the pet shop and raise them to supplement our food that was rationed. We had no electricity then. I used to fill a rubber hot water bottle. Wrap it in a towel and put that and the chicks in a cardboard box. Some didn't survive but quite a few did and did was intended. They fed us. Keep the videos coming. They are always interesting.
I have a dozen laying hens, also. Been raising chickens for 12 years now. Just started with quail this year. I'm finding the quail more enjoyable to raise.
@@maryjane_nizi Im having over 20 birds a week hatch, I have anywhere between 70 to 100 birds at any given time. Fixing to have to cull my original set of breeders. That's going to be sad. I call them my OG's lol They are not laying efficiently anymore and it's a waste of feed. I have juvenile birds ready to take their place soon. It's been fun
Ex Chicken farmer here….when you candle your eggs make an "ok" sign by touching your forefinger and thumb together and place/hold the torch under the hole…..then you can place the egg on top of your thumb and forefinger hole to see the whole egg with the light underneath. It makes the egg so much more visible and easier to handle. Good luck good people.
I’m glad I’m not the only one with boxes of canned goods on the floor in my house,🤣 I’m going to dispatch some quail this morning! Then I’ll start a hatching! Love how fast they grow!
Me, too. My jars are on my table-gotta clean a pantry shelf off! We'll start a new batch of quail after we butcher in December. I love them. I thank Sarah and Kevin for getting me started on quail.
Kevin im 72 i wish you could have been my school teacher in high school you are the best teacher well spoken honest and very patient you have a thing about covering everything in small time period i dont see you failing at anthing you and Sarah are very hard working people god bless yall
oh I miss my quail so much! I used to raise them in my apartment, I had all the meat and eggs I could eat. but eventually I had to stop as it was just too messy. but I so miss hatching out the chicks, it was the most fun I have had in my senior years. keep up the good work on your farm I so enjoy watching you. (I am an old lady in a highrise!)
Excellent hatch rate, I've been raising jumbo cortunix quail and Northern Bob White quail for several years. Anytime I can get over a 50% hatch rate with my farm innovator incubator I feel like it's a success. I've been wanting to get a new incubator for a couple of years now, and you've motivated me to pull the trigger on the purchase. Another great video by Living Traditions Homestead.
What a small world. Myshire Farms is about 2 miles away from us here in Ohio. My sister lives in Kimberling City MO and my niece lives in Jefferson City. Next thing you know we will find out we are related, LOL! We adore your channel.
I was thrilled to see that you showed the complete process in ONE video! The chain of events from receiving the eggs to hatching made perfect sense and I loved this! I have only really seen Quail in the wild where I live, I am sure someone raises them, but I have not seen them for sale and I am thinking this would be a great adventure. THANK YOU!!! and God bless!
Received 15 eggs from my Amazon order. 7 hatched. Day +3 since last one hatched. All 7 are still alive. Eating, drinking and walking good I did help 2 out of the shell. One was upside down. Both of those babies are alive and look to be the same size and just as active as the others Thanks to this channel and others. Great advice and it helped.
What a great success with the hatch rate! I know they are for food, and theres certainly nothing wrong with that, but darn it if they arent just adorable. Congratulations on your re-endeavors. God bless and happy Thanksgiving, Shirley.
I ordered 50 quail eggs got 60. Unfortunately 4 hatched my shire Honored their guarantee. I'm trying again with a new nurture right 360 & a hovee thermometer. I'm new to This and I really don't want to give up. Good luck.
Hello from Germany! Thanks for sharing your experience! The hatching rate increase, if the chicks stay dark. The first ones use to disturb the process of hatching for the later ones. (Play soccer with the eggs) Cute they are all! I have fertilisation rate of 86% and hatching rate of 98% at the last breed. As someone else says, the water needs a very narrow opening, or they become wet. (Apologize, if spelling and syntax is incorrect.)
Very interesting! I love the tenderness of quail eggs. This video was wonderful to watch because you had all the stages edited together wonderfully. Looking forward to seeing the birds grow!
It's addictive. What started with a dozen now over 50 here. Well 50 layers. I keep the incubators running and butcher 40 or so per month. Expanding into chickens now lol
Ok I’m glad I’m not the only OCD farmer…notice how the guy (I don’t know names yet) just puts them in the tray and lady places them, then takes them out, rearranges..that is OCD! I do it with everything! My dishwasher, my cabinets, food, drawers, closet…everything.❤️🤣
Yea on you returning to quail! I live in the city and none of my neighbors know I have quail!! I ave 22 females and 5 males of Jumbo cortornix quail. I just harvested the other males 16 of them. Average weight 14 oz!! The breeders are almost old enough to breed and then I’ll be filling that incubator!! My breeders are also eggs I hatched from Myshire farms!
You should be using smaller diameter waterers. Tractor Supply sells waterers specifically for quail. If the waterer bottom is too wide, the chicks will get wet and could drown.
Big WOWZERS on the success rate! I'm glad you linked all of the videos together. My first thought was "Oh, dang. I'll be waiting for these chicks to hatch. At least it won't be as long as the piglets!" And then, WOO-HOO! We used to incubate chickens and this brought back some good memories. Thanks for showing us all of your adventures.
The puppy lookout holes in your blinds behind Kevin made me chuckle. Ah the joys of dogs. Ours made their spots in our new blinds within days of hanging them up.
This is awesome! I know you have tons of experience raising birds, but I have some suggestions that may help. Is the bottom of your incubator non-slip? If not, you can put down the shelf liner with the holes...this will prevent splayed legs. For your waterer, of you put marbles or rocks in the dish part, it will prevent them from trying to go swimming and also from drowning. These babies are tiny and I've heard stories and seen pictures of them climbing up into the food containers and suffocating--if you feed on the floor the first several days, they can grow big enough to avoid this. I tape the holes to make them smaller so they can't fit in. I'm excited you are getting back into quail!
I use the more narrow waterer bottoms, and since marbles don't really fit that, I use washed gravel, picking through for the proper sizes. (I also didn't need to pay for marbles if the gravel here was free!)
Great news on the jumbo quail hatch rate. I wonder how is Myrtle and the piglets? You guys are such a joy to watch. God bless and have a great Thanksgiving.
We are just starting with quail and have two roosters and 10 hens. They're supposedly around 10 weeks old but have not started laying yet. We just got them this last Tuesday though.
The one that hopped backwards into the warmer 😂😂😂 i ordered scarlet fee from myshire and im super excited to watch them hatch. I love your vids thank you!
You will want to get blue shop paper towels to line your hatcher with during lockdown. Chicks hatched on a smooth surface have increased risk for splayed or spradled legs. I don't know if the jumbo whites that Zack sent you are Texas A&M or not, but if they are, they tend to have a reputation to be a more aggressive quail variety amongst the coturnix. You may end up needing to separate the white ones out from the rest of your colors.There are a couple big breeders here in Ohio. I feel very lucky to have learned so much from Zack's channel. Myshire is quite an operation and everyone needs a "papa builder things".
I love this. It takes me back to the war years in London, England when I was a boy. I used to buy day old chicks from the pet shop and raise them to supplement our food that was rationed. We had no electricity then. I used to fill a rubber hot water bottle. Wrap it in a towel and put that and the chicks in a cardboard box. Some didn't survive but quite a few did and did was intended. They fed us. Keep the videos coming. They are always interesting.
You have a wealth of information on how to survive shortages that is of incredible value! Thank you for sharing your nugget of information ♥️♥️
Thanks for sharing your experience! You just gave us an idea of what to do when there is no electricity! :)
That is so interesting.
It is cool to here how your family stayed alive back in the war days like that. I never heard much about them days.
Thank you for sharing!
I started out with 10 quail. Now I have 28 quail. I'm having too much fun with this.
Thought chickens were the gateway bird!
Quail are the new chicken...
I have a dozen laying hens, also. Been raising chickens for 12 years now. Just started with quail this year. I'm finding the quail more enjoyable to raise.
Any update on everyone's quail?
@@maryjane_nizi Im having over 20 birds a week hatch, I have anywhere between 70 to 100 birds at any given time. Fixing to have to cull my original set of breeders. That's going to be sad. I call them my OG's lol
They are not laying efficiently anymore and it's a waste of feed. I have juvenile birds ready to take their place soon. It's been fun
I started with 20 Jumbo quail It has now been a year. I has now grown to more than a hobby. I currently have 200 of my own quail in the Incubator.
The quail are nice but, the happy dogs in the back ground stole the show for me!
The one licking himself/herself non stop was so distracting! Does your dog have allergies??
My wife asked can we do this. I heard we are doing this🤣🤣🤣🤣. Thank you for your time, videos, and knowledge.
My hubby is supportive of our new venture lol
92 percent is phenomenal!
I couldn't stop watching the dogs. 😂😂
Ex Chicken farmer here….when you candle your eggs make an "ok" sign by touching your forefinger and thumb together and place/hold the torch under the hole…..then you can place the egg on top of your thumb and forefinger hole to see the whole egg with the light underneath. It makes the egg so much more visible and easier to handle. Good luck good people.
83 ÷ 110 = 75.4 % hatch rate
My Shire Farm guarantees a 50% hatch rate. EXCELLENT!
I’m glad I’m not the only one with boxes of canned goods on the floor in my house,🤣 I’m going to dispatch some quail this morning! Then I’ll start a hatching! Love how fast they grow!
SAME HERE! I want to start a few quail up as soon as it warms up outside.
Me, too. My jars are on my table-gotta clean a pantry shelf off! We'll start a new batch of quail after we butcher in December. I love them. I thank Sarah and Kevin for getting me started on quail.
@@patriciajones9711 I have an island, and every year my goal is to finally get it cleaned off for thanksgiving!🤣
Haha all the butternut squash everywhere too I absolutely love it 😂
My place has 5-gallon buckets everywhere.
It's honey. My "bank".
When you get into hobby beekeeping big time you end up with buckets.
Kevin im 72 i wish you could have been my school teacher in high school you are the best teacher well spoken honest and very patient you have a thing about covering everything in small time period i dont see you failing at anthing you and Sarah are very hard working people god bless yall
oh I miss my quail so much! I used to raise them in my apartment, I had all the meat and eggs I could eat. but eventually I had to stop as it was just too messy. but I so miss hatching out the chicks, it was the most fun I have had in my senior years. keep up the good work on your farm I so enjoy watching you. (I am an old lady in a highrise!)
Raising them inside your apartment? What?
That sounds amazing!😊
Excellent hatch rate, I've been raising jumbo cortunix quail and Northern Bob White quail for several years. Anytime I can get over a 50% hatch rate with my farm innovator incubator I feel like it's a success. I've been wanting to get a new incubator for a couple of years now, and you've motivated me to pull the trigger on the purchase. Another great video by Living Traditions Homestead.
That waterer is for chickens!!? They'll get in an get wet and or drown.....get some marbles or a quail waterer. Best of luck!
Myshire is the best. They really take their business very seriously and provide quality eggs, etc.
What a small world. Myshire Farms is about 2 miles away from us here in Ohio. My sister lives in Kimberling City MO and my niece lives in Jefferson City. Next thing you know we will find out we are related, LOL! We adore your channel.
So precious... so cute, I couldn't eat them...just me, they are precious.
I was thrilled to see that you showed the complete process in ONE video! The chain of events from receiving the eggs to hatching made perfect sense and I loved this! I have only really seen Quail in the wild where I live, I am sure someone raises them, but I have not seen them for sale and I am thinking this would be a great adventure. THANK YOU!!! and God bless!
Check out Craigslist if you are looking for local, but Myshire ships all over. They are in Ohio and I am in California and I hatched from the.
Great video. I really enjoy going back and watching the ones I missed along the way.
Cool!
Love to see the Bible In the background! God bless!! The 🐶 also, super cool video definitely different.
Received 15 eggs from my Amazon order. 7 hatched. Day +3 since last one hatched. All 7 are still alive. Eating, drinking and walking good
I did help 2 out of the shell. One was upside down. Both of those babies are alive and look to be the same size and just as active as the others
Thanks to this channel and others. Great advice and it helped.
Brilliant timings. I'm starting with quail again with so much more knowledge thanks to videos like this.
MyShire is awesome and has a fantastic quail community. Good luck with these babies.
Wow how exciting!! Praise the Lord!!!
They are so cute Wow I have never seen a quail Look like the baby chicks God-bless you in your family good night
I happy to see you too are happy and excited 👍
I wanted to start with 16, now I have 70 myshire babies in my brooder. You got me into QUAIL! Thanks man
Nice!
I’ve hear if you put rocks in their water dish it can help with them not getting too wet.
That is a great idea! One of them looked so deep. They would never be able to get out of it.
Yea, quail chicks are prone to drowning or getting chilled the first few days while they get their motor skills developed.
What a great success with the hatch rate! I know they are for food, and theres certainly nothing wrong with that, but darn it if they arent just adorable. Congratulations on your re-endeavors. God bless and happy Thanksgiving, Shirley.
It can be hard to harvest meat from animals you've been raising but is part of the process
They sooooo cute! Happy Thanksgiving!
@@Off-GridI just watched Papa butcher or on My Shire. I'm not sure I have the nerve for it.
I've raised koternix quail to train dogs and they're quite tasty. 😉
@@Off-Grid Hardest part is sharpening the knife..
I have to admit that I was watching the dogs on the couch, while Kevin was talking. 😊
They came to help when they heard those babies chirping!
@@rhondaborders3452 I saw that. They are sweet dogs. I wish Kevin and Sarah would show them more.
If I thought baby chicken chicks were cute, those little things are ADORABLE!!💛💛💛💛💛💛
I know nothing about raising birds. I am amazed you can mail eggs to someone and they get them and they are whole and viable to hatch.
I ordered 50 quail eggs got 60.
Unfortunately 4 hatched my shire
Honored their guarantee. I'm trying again with a new nurture right 360
& a hovee thermometer. I'm new to
This and I really don't want to give up. Good luck.
I could watch Kevin all day talking about the quails 😊 Imagine how excited he was when he had the children lol 😊👍🇭🇲
Kevin, the chicks were recognizing the Sabbath... Waited until Monday!
Love the doggie on the sofa!!
Wow.. I now have 100+ quail from 4 quail. Now I incubate 50 jumbo quail and let's see where this lead. I'm so exciting
I saw where there is a quail plucker machine just like the chicken on. Just little
I have one that attaches to a drill.
Sarah's smiles are like what a new momma has❤ this is so wonderful
Tgey are so tiny. We have raised chickens for meat, but I never thought about quail before. Now I’m going to have to watch all of your quail videos.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, HAVE A VERY BLESSED DAY
Looks like the hot plate is always more comfortable on the other side.
Best way to count is to take a picture.
Adorable little quail.
🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣
Exelent production.
Thanks for the video.
What a fantastic hatch rate. Those chicks are so cute. In AZ we would say the baby quail looked just like little walnuts.
My Mom calls the native California quail babies "walking walnuts".
Thank you so much for sharing this video. Put a smile on my face first thing in the morning. God bless
great video all is looking good .
Hello from Germany!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
The hatching rate increase, if the chicks stay dark. The first ones use to disturb the process of hatching for the later ones. (Play soccer with the eggs)
Cute they are all! I have fertilisation rate of 86% and hatching rate of 98% at the last breed.
As someone else says, the water needs a very narrow opening, or they become wet.
(Apologize, if spelling and syntax is incorrect.)
I used to have a beagle, Molly, that slept on the back of the couch like yours!
Your beagles are so cute in the background.
Very interesting! I love the tenderness of quail eggs. This video was wonderful to watch because you had all the stages edited together wonderfully. Looking forward to seeing the birds grow!
It's addictive. What started with a dozen now over 50 here. Well 50 layers. I keep the incubators running and butcher 40 or so per month. Expanding into chickens now lol
Ok I’m glad I’m not the only OCD farmer…notice how the guy (I don’t know names yet) just puts them in the tray and lady places them, then takes them out, rearranges..that is OCD! I do it with everything! My dishwasher, my cabinets, food, drawers, closet…everything.❤️🤣
Mine always got into those kinds if waterers. I had to go to the smaller ones
Love Love Love this video. money well spent.
When you opened the hatcher *chick popcorn sounds* ☺️😅
Going to have to get those pups some chickens! They were so excited.
You and Sarah work so hard and just look at that lazy pup chilling on the couch! Seriously, you’ve got to find a way for that freeloader to help out.
This is exciting! Quail have been on my want list for a while! Thanks!
You guys are such a lovely couple
I am excited for you and the new large quail. The babies look like popcorn jumping around in the incubator.
So cute. Loved how one Chick backed into heat carrier, it was so cute
Fifty percent-smifty percent! Well done. From start to finish, it's done right. God bless
Yea on you returning to quail! I live in the city and none of my neighbors know I have quail!! I ave 22 females and 5 males of Jumbo cortornix quail. I just harvested the other males 16 of them. Average weight 14 oz!! The breeders are almost old enough to breed and then I’ll be filling that incubator!! My breeders are also eggs I hatched from Myshire farms!
Super
Thanks for a wonderful show
Sorry your dogs were distracting me. Adorable x
Time to build an Aviary! 😂 Gosh that's so many! Congratulations 😊
Wow! That’s a great success rate!!!
Eggs in lockdown. Lol. Too funny.
I’m enjoying this topic. Exciting. And you’ll cook one too won’t you??
You should be using smaller diameter waterers. Tractor Supply sells waterers specifically for quail. If the waterer bottom is too wide, the chicks will get wet and could drown.
I enjoyed your video. So educational and too cute!! 🥰
I love the beagle in background... I didn't realize all the difference in quails. God Bless and Happy Thanksgiving
Notice all the canning jars
Big WOWZERS on the success rate! I'm glad you linked all of the videos together. My first thought was "Oh, dang. I'll be waiting for these chicks to hatch. At least it won't be as long as the piglets!" And then, WOO-HOO! We used to incubate chickens and this brought back some good memories. Thanks for showing us all of your adventures.
ya' know what I see... I see you care. it is important. You handle them very carefully
The puppy lookout holes in your blinds behind Kevin made me chuckle. Ah the joys of dogs. Ours made their spots in our new blinds within days of hanging them up.
I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving. God bless
This is awesome! I know you have tons of experience raising birds, but I have some suggestions that may help. Is the bottom of your incubator non-slip? If not, you can put down the shelf liner with the holes...this will prevent splayed legs. For your waterer, of you put marbles or rocks in the dish part, it will prevent them from trying to go swimming and also from drowning. These babies are tiny and I've heard stories and seen pictures of them climbing up into the food containers and suffocating--if you feed on the floor the first several days, they can grow big enough to avoid this. I tape the holes to make them smaller so they can't fit in. I'm excited you are getting back into quail!
Amazon has a quail waterer that is more shallow, works great.
@@Alexis_9339 I still put marbles in those.
@@katrinakrakow5961 hmm, I’ve never had an issue. Thanks for letting me know!
I use the more narrow waterer bottoms, and since marbles don't really fit that, I use washed gravel, picking through for the proper sizes. (I also didn't need to pay for marbles if the gravel here was free!)
@@diannt9583 I use small marbles from Michael's craft store.
@Sarah & Kevin :: AMAZING job with this :)
Love it, great work farmer !
Great news on the jumbo quail hatch rate. I wonder how is Myrtle and the piglets? You guys are such a joy to watch. God bless and have a great Thanksgiving.
We are just starting with quail and have two roosters and 10 hens. They're supposedly around 10 weeks old but have not started laying yet. We just got them this last Tuesday though.
They are so cute ! 😍
Bought Myshire eggs a few years ago, they are a awesome seller
The one that hopped backwards into the warmer 😂😂😂 i ordered scarlet fee from myshire and im super excited to watch them hatch. I love your vids thank you!
You can't go wrong with Myshire. The jumbos are huge. I have the whites, wilds, and white-wing. Docile and fun to work with.
Omg sooo cute 🥰 👍🏻
This was very interesting. Thanks for not making us wait. 😆
Good Morning to my favorite homestead family!! Thank you for helping us all so much.
I can't wait to see the babies. And future chicken nuggets
Cant wait 2 buy some jumbo eggs soon 👍
That is so cool Kevin; their so small lol. wow 83
Excellent fertility for shipped eggs!!! yes, usually 50%.
I got eggs from Myshire 5 days ago, in the incubator at this point, looking forward to baby chicks before Christmas.
You will want to get blue shop paper towels to line your hatcher with during lockdown. Chicks hatched on a smooth surface have increased risk for splayed or spradled legs. I don't know if the jumbo whites that Zack sent you are Texas A&M or not, but if they are, they tend to have a reputation to be a more aggressive quail variety amongst the coturnix. You may end up needing to separate the white ones out from the rest of your colors.There are a couple big breeders here in Ohio. I feel very lucky to have learned so much from Zack's channel. Myshire is quite an operation and everyone needs a "papa builder things".
Wow so impressive and interesting quail population growing
Thank you Kevin & Sarah. Top video. God Bless you all in Love. ( shared to f/b )
Thank you you are great teacher
Great vid. I’ve ordered from Myshire and wouldn’t go anywhere else. They are fantastic.