Quail and Rabbits

[JoePa]

I've been watching a homestead family - Living Traditions Homestead - and I'll tell you they really teach you a lot of good information on growing your own food - they have a 9 part series on raising rabbits and also have a series on raising quail - they go into the details so that even if you don't have any experience you could start raising these food sources - the one on quail shows how to process and cook quail - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUbRPphQuWY - kinda wondering if I should start raising quail after watching their videos -

[Gilroy]

My first thought without even looking at the video is, how much meat are you getting from a quail. Rabbits are fine and dandy but have to be housed and cleaned properly to keep down disease. By the time you buy food/grain how far are you ahead?

[MeghanOOD]

My first thought without even looking at the video is, how much meat are you getting from a quail. Rabbits are fine and dandy but have to be housed and cleaned properly to keep down disease. By the time you buy food/grain how far are you ahead?

Quail eggs, but again they'd be quite small.

[JoePa]

My first thought without even looking at the video is, how much meat are you getting from a quail. Rabbits are fine and dandy but have to be housed and cleaned properly to keep down disease. By the time you buy food/grain how far are you ahead?

Yes I agree with you - chickens are much more practical - you can let them roam around and get free food and they give you eggs - I guess the quail are something you can eat in only a six weeks and I don't think they eat very much - and it is something different to eat - and they are easier to kill - for some reason certain things are easier to kill without feeling sorry for killing it - I don't think twice about killing fish - and birds are easier to kill - but some animals are now that easy -

[Deer Hunter]

I had two dozen pheasants at one point and beside the cool factor wouldn’t do it again. For me anyways living in the North I can get all the grouse or rabbits I need. I might get chickens once I retire.

[gbk]

I had two dozen pheasants at one point and beside the cool factor wouldn’t do it again. For me anyways living in the North I can get all the grouse or rabbits I need. I might get chickens once I retire.

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Chicken and rabbits are the ticket for survival.
My Mom made living running a smalls scale chicken farm-have quite experience with them.
My Dad would make some side money after retiring-would raise rabits,half would sell for the cost of investing into the next "generation "of rabbits,half would be consumed by them-us.
That is how i learned skinning/field dressing rabbits.........

Then-for variety-goat and pig.
That is more then enogh.If one do not want to buy feed,al 4 can be fed by grazing ,or cutting hay simple ways ,for rabbits.
Goat will actually eat up the "house"given chance.....
We called goat-the poor mans cow.Milk,meat-no shelter,no feed.

Of course-one will need time for them to grow the nature's way,but they will be the true BIO food.

[Gilroy]

I had two dozen pheasants at one point and beside the cool factor wouldn’t do it again. For me anyways living in the North I can get all the grouse or rabbits I need. I might get chickens once I retire.

LOL I had a neighbour besides me up north, actually an American guy from Pennsylvania and he raised a few dozen pheasants on his place and after they were grown up he released them hoping they would take in the wild. I saw them a couple of times in the bush for a week or so
but they did not last long between the foxes, coyotes, hawks and owls. Tough spot for birds unless they are street smart.

[finsfurfeathers]

Problem with raising quail is you sure get sick of pickled eggs real fast

[JoePa]

Well the reason for raising these animals besides providing food for you now is you have food when TSHF and there is a real shortage of food - one of the advantages of having a rural property - imagine living in a big city and all of a sudden you can't go to the store to buy food - and let me tell you something - things are not getting any better so being prepared is a good idea -

One thing with rabbits they reproduce real fast and in no time you have a lot of them -

[Deer Hunter]

LOL I had a neighbour besides me up north, actually an American guy from Pennsylvania and he raised a few dozen pheasants on his place and after they were grown up he released them hoping they would take in the wild. I saw them a couple of times in the bush for a week or so
but they did not last long between the foxes, coyotes, hawks and owls. Tough spot for birds unless they are street smart.

Haha, I ate them all……except one that managed to fly away.