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My big goal this year is to prepare the house for NativeJR. Which is going to be pretty ambitious as MRS. Native wants to put in completely new floors which is going to be a massive job.

I also want to get about 50 quail, so will need to build them a completely new pen and set up fortunately that shouldn’t be too difficult I don’t think.

I would also like to grow bunnies and that will be a lot of work because you have to make several pens to separate the men and the women and the babies since rabbits are pretty violet and will kill the babies if you aren’t careful.

I’m hoping for a great harvest on garlic (which I already planted) and hoping my three rhubarb plants will take off this year.

Basically home renovations is the big thing. I cut down my booze a lot and it’s basically just once a month now and I’m hoping to cut it back to just special events this coming year.

I also want to focus on cutting down my debt, it jumped up quite a bit and my household is now just a one income family so we have to be more careful with money. Though if the rabbits and quail take off this year, that should really save a lot of money on meat.

The food isn’t that expensive for them. Tell you what though, gardening is $$$ buying good soil is NOT cheap.

What is everyone else looking forward to?

My big goal this year is to prepare the house for NativeJR. Which is going to be pretty ambitious as MRS. Native wants to put in completely new floors which is going to be a massive job. I also want to get about 50 quail, so will need to build them a completely new pen and set up fortunately that shouldn’t be too difficult I don’t think. I would also like to grow bunnies and that will be a lot of work because you have to make several pens to separate the men and the women and the babies since rabbits are pretty violet and will kill the babies if you aren’t careful. I’m hoping for a great harvest on garlic (which I already planted) and hoping my three rhubarb plants will take off this year. Basically home renovations is the big thing. I cut down my booze a lot and it’s basically just once a month now and I’m hoping to cut it back to just special events this coming year. I also want to focus on cutting down my debt, it jumped up quite a bit and my household is now just a one income family so we have to be more careful with money. Though if the rabbits and quail take off this year, that should really save a lot of money on meat. The food isn’t that expensive for them. Tell you what though, gardening is $$$ buying good soil is NOT cheap. What is everyone else looking forward to?

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I wanted to get a couple just to test out the waters and I absolutely love them!

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What are you trying to do? I'm in it for the meat. Eggs are just a perk.

My breeding program started with ~15 jumbo coturnix I found about 2 hours away. They weren't youtube quality top stock, but they were good birds. After a single year of serious selective breeding, my eggs went from 9.5 to 12 gram average. Roos gained about an ounce average, not quite. Hens almost 2oz.

Eggs went into the incubators at 2 week intervals. 2 more weeks in stage 1 brooders. At this point they can fly, 2 more weeks in stage 2 brooders. Then outside at ~4 weeks. Eggs at 6-8 weeks from those birds.

Eggs got out of control fast. No one I like buys eggs anymore. The freezer also filled up fast.

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I’m in it for the eggs and I have a ton of people willing to buy eggs, so I should be set there.

I’ll have to remember you to ask questions in the future and tips. Right off the bat how long have you had quail? And which incubator do you recommend? I already bought one but i see a ton of people with multiple hundred dollar ones and I’m worried mine won’t be good enough even though it cost quite a bit and is a rotating one (can’t remember the brand off hand.)

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I sell birds and hatching eggs locally, so answering some questions is no big deal. I had birds years ago, but they were just "brown" or sometimes "pharaoh" quail. I'd never heard the word "coturnix" until a few years ago. Same species as far as I know now.

I've had this batch for a year. I build my incubators and brooders. W1209 module, a PC fan or 2, and 2x 25w incandescents. I use those huge foam coolers for meat packing. Buying stuff is for suckers, lol. I know how that sounds, but it's not a junkyard setup.

I use the same incubators for my ducks with great success.

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Your incubator will most likely be fine.

One of the best tricks I've learned with hatching eggs is to find a place that is insulated from the weather but still gets the humidity variation from outside, unlike HVAC pulling the moisture out of the air. I have a shed I put mine in, and ever since I stopped hatching inside the house, I stopped getting chicks that were seran wrapped or has too much or too little moisture inside of the egg. I still put water in the bottom but I was no longer monitoring the humidity carefully. This was especially helpful with guineas, which have extremely hard shells. The only draw back is worrying about power outage, but checking once or twice a day isn't difficult if you're outside tending animals or your yard, anyway.