Introduction
My husband and I love nature, traveling, history and exploring our Creator's world. We take every opportunity we can to spend time together as a family and to teach our kids about the world around us.
My husband grew up on a farm and enjoys raising animals and having a garden. We are currently living in the city and doing some urban homesteading. We have raised quail for about 3 years now and have a small flock of quail hens for eggs.
One of my passions is antiquing. So I'm guilty of stopping at every antique and thrift shop that we pass on our trips. I have collected and researched everything from antique buttons, postage stamps, model trains to weaving looms and vintage advertising.
We love photography and taking pictures wherever the road takes us. We look forward to being part of Steemit and taking you along on our adventures traveling around the USA and at home.
Shalom Friends
White Dove and Dixie Trapper
That Eastman camera!
Yup, it is an Eastman Junior Six-20 that I had.
Excellent write!
Welcome to steemit @whitedove. You might be interested in the list of Homesteaders and Preppers on steemit to connect with other likeminded folk. Here is version 6, version 7 will be out shortly.
How do you feel about Pharaoh (Coturnix?) Quail? Have you tried others? Are they like the "general" Coturnix where they mature at like, what? 8 weeks or so? And hatch in 17?
I keep trying to tell people to get around their city's "no chicken" laws by getting quail. ;) Hahaha.
We have raised both the Coturnix and the Jumbo Coturnix, and I highly recommend them. They mature at 8 weeks and hatch in 17, the same as many other quail. We looked into them originally as there is a chicken ordinance in our city. I don't have any experience with chickens, but my husband says that the quail don't smell as bad as chickens, and they mature in about 1/2 the time. They take up less space, and you don't have to pluck them if you raise them for meat. We did try to hatch out some snowflake quail once, but there was a problem with our incubator and only one egg hatched out of like 20, and it didn't survive. So that was really tragic, and I haven't tried hatching any out since then.
I have chickens, ducks, and geese. :D And three Bobwhite quail. I am definitely interested in the quicker maturing and hatchrate of the Coturnix. (Bobwhites are about a 23 week mature rate and 23 days hatching).
Definitely look into them. I got my original hatching eggs off of ebay and shipped to me, and we had a great hatch rate. The second set of eggs we got didn't hatch because of the incubator issues. So the third group of quail, we bought as chicks and picked them up. There are a lot of good resources online, but this is probably the most comprehensive guide. http://www.stellargamebirds.net/books
Wow thanks for the helpful link!
I was surprised with my bobwhites of their HUMAN FREAKING WHISTLE! Scared the bejezus out of me AND my dog! We thought there was an intruder on our property! Hahaha.
Welcome @whitedove aboard the steemit express. This is a great platform to express yourself just like any other social media outlet except this one pays its users for interacting with each other. Post good content and your rewards can be limitless but always stay true to yourself.
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Thank you!
Hey @whitedove , I have started a podcast recently where I interview other entrepreneurs.
The podcast is on my youtube channel, and here is the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5CpCNPna6p95oJfKPew0N3ZT0k-khdgg
We talk about what you are currently doing in life, your business as well as your journey and any lessons or advice you want the world to know.
A casual conversation about entrepreneurship, and, about you.