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Other than bleed-out time, I can clean 1 bird per minute. Sometimes I do them whole, but I already had a freezer full of whole quail. I started with 70, but there are only 69 breasts... Someone escaped or fell into the bucket. NBD.

Other than bleed-out time, I can clean 1 bird per minute. Sometimes I do them whole, but I already had a freezer full of whole quail. I started with 70, but there are only 69 breasts... Someone escaped or fell into the bucket. NBD.

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What do you feed them?

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I feed a 28% protein crumble purchased from the local amish. None of the major ag stores around me carry above 24%. Often it's listed as turkey feed. At ~8 weeks I put them on the standard layer feed (more calcium) that I give my ducks. Crumble, not pellets even though they'll eat the pellets too.

It's worth it to get a meatier bird.

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Thanks for answering all my questions. and how much space do you have?

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It was too shitty out today for me to get the pictures of my whole setup. I promise I'll have a good explanation of what I'm doing on here soon. Everything I use is homemade.

My incubator will hold over 100 eggs, but I usually hatch 30-50 every other Sunday in the warm months. They stay in there for 48 hours. Any more than 50 is only when someone wants to buy chicks.

Brooder #1 is about 3 square ft. Chicks are there for 10 days, at which point they can sort of fly.

Brooder #2 is the same size but has a lid.

The bachelor pad is 4'x2'.

The jr hen pad is the same size.

The breeder hutch is 3'x8'. Any deeper and I can't reach all the way in to grab eggs. I guess I could get the stick a craps dealer uses to wrangle out eggs?

I have another 3'x2' if there's any overflow.

This allows me to hatch on 2 week intervals and house everyone until I butcher at ~8 weeks.