Ok, here I am on the 1st of March. I am hoping that by the 9th or the 10th I'll have a 100% hatch rate of my 10 quail eggs. You know what they say, wish in one hand and sh...... well, you know what they say!

Here are a couple pictures of my incubator. If you look close at the one one on the left hand side you'll see the thermometer and 10 tiny little eggs. the reason I've decided to try to raise quail VS. Chickens is a couple of reasons. #1 would be variety. I eat chicken. A LOT of chicken. I love it. I wouldn't mind something different every once in a while. Another reason is that quail have a two to one feed conversion ratio... Unless you are raising mutant chickens, they get a 3 to 1 ratio, and rabbits are close to a 4 to 1 feed to meat by weight ratio.

did I mention they lay eggs? Yup. The cortunix quail I am going to raise average from 200-300 eggs a year. As long as you have a rooster for every three hens, you should be able to incubate all the eggs you want, grow out as many little friers, and rotate out your breeding stock in a small amount of space. My parents were cleaning out their barn and gave me a small critter cage, and I am going to use that as a brooder/breeding cage.