The Quail Covey

02/07/2024

A very small hatch from posted eggs.

08/06/2024

Grinding up Gamebird starter for baby quails.
This into lasts for a few days and then they are big enough to eat it straight from the bag.
I do baby them for the first week 🥰

06/06/2024

Some new quicks on the block.

10/07/2023

This page has been a little (ok a lot) neglected for some time now.
I’m hoping to be able to keep on top of regular updates from here on.
Here’s our first baby of the season and by the sound in the incubator I’d say his brothers and sisters aren’t far behind.
Again this year we are using the Borotto real 49 and Inkbird Bluetooth thermometer to make sure everyone is happy and warm.
Here’s to a good hatching season everyone 🐣
Incubatrici Borotto - egg incubator Inkbird Australia

23/03/2022

FINALLY! The REAL Nutritional Data Comparison of Quail Versus Chicken’s Eggs. I have read a lot of mis-information about the comparative nutritional value of quail’s eggs, so decided to take a brief look at it myself.
The statistic below are compared with the exact same amount of chicken’s eggs to quail’s eggs, 100g of each. Much of the mis-information comes from comparing unequal amounts. Data was from http://nutritiondata.self.com. Quail’s Eggs Come Out Top – no surprise there, with significant increases in Riboflavin, and Iron.
Vitamin A – up 1%
Vitamin C – both have none
Vitamin D – up 9%
Vitamin K – both have none
Thiamin – up 4%
Riboflavin – up 22%
Niacin – up 1%
Vitamin B6 – up 1%
Folate up 4%
Vitamin B12 – up 4%
Pantothenic Acid – up 4%
Choline – both have none
Calcium – 1~% more
Iron – double chicken’s eggs, up 100%
Magnesium – same
Phosphorus – up 4%
Sodium – same
Zinc – up 3%
Copper – up 2%
Manganese – same
Selenium – up 1%
So there you have it, it seems quail's eggs ARE much better than chicken's eggs, but that sometimes people have not compared equal amounts!

02/02/2022

One day old, 1 week old and 11 days old

24/01/2022

Trying something different this brood. A reclaimed reptile enclosure with one end aviary mesh.

24/01/2022

Babies are hatching!

18/09/2021

Japanese quails and king quail (Button) hatching

18/09/2021

First baby hatched at the new place.

09/09/2021

Did they get high becuase the couldn’t fly?🤔

Sometimes, there are federal grants that perfectly encapsulate everything broken with the federal scientific research subsidization industry. One such grant is the much- popularized “quails on co***ne” study, originally uncovered by Dr. Tom Coburn (R- OK).

In his 2011 “Wastebook,” Dr. Coburn highlighted a $356,993 study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the relationship between co***ne abuse and risky sexual behavior in Japanese quail.

Unfortunately, the research continued for several years, in total lasting from 2010-2016, and received an additional $517,510 in the years following the publication of the original report, for a total of $874,503.

Operating with “preliminary evidence in male Japanese quail that preexposure to co***ne enhances sexual motivation,” as stated on the NIH’s project information page, and using the hypothesis that there is a positive correlation between the “magnitude” of sexual behavior and factors including the amount of co***ne to which the quails were exposed, as well as the frequency of exposure, the study was justified by pointing to previous clinical studies showing “a correlation between co***ne use and risky sexual practices in humans.

08/09/2021

We’ve been a little quiet but for very good reason.
We were negotiations for buying a little homestead!
Then as luck would have it we were caught in a 2 state lockdown and have been in our new, partially finished house, in western NSW.
We weren’t supposed to be here until December but we will take it for what it is.
Our quails are just starting up again but absolutely loving life in the bush.
The incubator is running and we are getting our numbers back up.