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I am seriously thinking of raising quails and use the eggs as food, the quails are too small, they themselves are ineffective as food, although if they stop laying eggs, they will certainly be eaten.

Edit : Very small space, just a few feet, and that I'm allergic to chicken eggs.

I am seriously thinking of raising quails and use the eggs as food, the quails are too small, they themselves are ineffective as food, although if they stop laying eggs, they will certainly be eaten. Edit : Very small space, just a few feet, and that I'm allergic to chicken eggs.

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Why did you not consider chicken ?

or rabbits ?

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Very little space, just a few feet.

Rabbits are a good idea, but I think they eat too much.

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Too much what ? grass ?

You either can have the "animal" run around in the couryard (does not seem the case) or you need to buy the appropriate food.

I am wondering on the ratio "money spent on food for animal/actual food to be eaten" for quails, for what I know chcken are the animals that convert most of raw material to edible stuff.

Wish you all the best

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We’ve been raising meat rabbits for several years. The chow isn’t cheap but is easily supplemented with many kitchen scraps or the supermarket produce mark down bin. The meat is interchangeable with chicken. Chickens take 6 months to get to processing stage. Rabbit takes 4.

I’ve raised both. Rabbits over chickens for meat hands down.

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My family had rabbits for years. Complete waste. They taste good, but take too long to raise, eat too much (they'll waste most of any fed you give them), and can be incredibly stupid. You end up investing a couple or a few months into a rabbit, and get at best a pound of meat. On the plus side, they are very easy to clean.

I've heard good things about quails, though I also hear they crap a lot more than expected.

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though I also hear they crap a lot more than expected

unexpected bonus, if you're looking to make your own gunpowder.

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A few feet where? It'll smell dude, hopefully not your house.

In terms of energy efficiency it goes: Insects , reptiles, birds and mammals.

For insects, try to get crickets. Idk about any reptiles. For birds consider pigeons. They were raised for food depression era.

Just thought of reptiles: frogs. But frogs aren't easy to deal with.