Natural Quail Keeping for Meat and Eggs – Epi-3545
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Today we are joined by Heather Smith to discuss how she is raising quail in a natural on the ground manner along with “edible landscaping” right smack in the middle of a blue hair HOA. If she can do this, you can too! Tune in to find out how.
Heather is a dedicated listener to the TSPC and has used the show as a motivation to get serious about homesteading her .05 acre suburban property. This led her to Jack’s magnum opus on quail and into the world of natural or on the ground quail keeping. Heather and her three-year-old daughter collect eggs for eating, sell eggs, and cull birds for meat.
She uses a deep litter method to help supplement her compost and gives away compost and compost tea in her community to encourage neighbors to garden as well. Keeping quail on the ground can be more work than keeping them in hutches, but Heather feels the extra work is worth the perceived increase in lifestyle for the quail and the educational opportunity to have the birds in the garden.
Heather is starting a small business, “42 Foot Farm” to help promote her egg and bird business and encourage those in highly concentrated suburban areas to help produce their own food and fowl. This also includes how to create edible landscaping in a highly monitored HOA and how to keep animals in that HOA landscape.
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I’ve hatched quail under a broody silkie very successfully. However, she’s an amazing mother. Some of my other banties are not candidates for quail hatching as they’re not careful with their babies and would probably kill the quail accidentally.