The Quail Entrepreneurship

Greetings to all my reader friends, glad to see many of you back here. I was very sad yesterday when I wrote my little post but then when I saw back the little friend of all of us I was glad to see him and I am very grateful to him for his visit to my post.

Friend @Telesfor is one of the most persistent and encouraging people here. He was always adding something from his personal tips every time I came. Maybe he understood why I didn't want to leave this platform yet. He always came, first commenting and then left with the tips, thank you my friend, thank you for always being there and encouraging me to keep going.

Today I come to tell you that my new venture is going very well. In another post, I commented that I am starting to breed quail. I started by buying 6 birds. Of these 6 quails, the seller made a mistake and sold me two males. I only wanted one male.

Of the 4 female quails only one is laying, the rest are not laying. Of course, this is not a loss because in some cases the meat of these birds is also succulent because of their good weight.

This week I bought 8 more quails. One male and 7 laying quails. They get very stressed and stop laying when they change habitat. So I have to wait until they get used to it and start laying all of them. On the first day, all the females came with their eggs but on the second day they laid 4 of them, and on the third day only two of them and also two white eggs. Supposedly because of the stress.

Now they are 6 days old and only one of the new ones and mine is laying. In conclusion of my 14 quails, 3 are males and 11 are females. Of the 11 quails 2 are just laying.

It is a pleasant experience although they have not yet restarted laying. But as I pointed out before I am in the middle of experimenting with them, finding out everything about the life around them.

Next week is my birthday, or rather, tomorrow March 13 is my birthday and my son is going to give me a special large cage for quails and a small incubator.

I have to collect 10 eggs and do my first incubation of 10 eggs. With 10 eggs that I collect in my quails, I will have the reproduction of them. I hope to rigorously follow the incubation procedure to be successful.

Needless to say, this is a very exciting venture. Eggs from the quails can be sold for human consumption. Fertile eggs are also sold for reproduction. After a certain time of laying, the female quails are selected for meat consumption. The manure from the birds after a procedure is special for my organic fertilizers.

As some of you know and know me I like to prepare my compost and then I add the manure of some ruminants to enrich it with nitrogen. This is excellent for my plants as they grow huge fruits and flowers.

So far I am sharing with you some of my daily work at the moment.

The photographs are my property.