quail eggs as food

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Bushranger - neither, but great minds obviously thing alike! :lol: :lol: :lol:
As for giving away secrets, it is probably in the hope that one day you fellas will figure out how to highly evolved female brain works! ;)
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I have used all those tactics and a variation of tactic C.
Do the usual banging and crashing in the shed, then come in put the kettle on, ask if he wants a coffee and casually ask where he would like the "whatever it is I want built" putting in the garden. Usually the task is taken out of my hands :clap: :clap: :clap: , he must figure its easier to do the job himself that have to look at something Ive done forever. :shock:
Must admit though, after 37 years hes getting wise to my ways. :?
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Here in the Philippines Japanese quail eggs are a common snack food and I feed them to my birds rather than eat them myself. They are easy to keep but never sit so if you're breeding them then you have to artificailly incubate the eggs. I know that there is a bit of gourmet market for them in Australia so I'm sure that you could get rid of any excess. Here a tray of 24 sells (for P40 or about AUD$1) but in Australia I bet it's more like $5. It's a bit out of date (I left the Department in 2004) but here is an article on raising Jap quail http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/ ... nese-quail.
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$6.00 for a tray of 6 (eggs)....guessing Jap as they were bigger than the Kings.
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Button quail eggs can be pickled and added to salad. A few peeps I know have tried them boiled/fried and said the are delicious. Me not yet.
I feed mine back to my birds.
I wait until the first egg is laid in the nest and mark it with permanent marker and leave it there so the hen continues to lay in the same place. Then I just collect every additonal egg laid. When the hen gets tired of me stealing her eggs and abandons the nest to start another, I turf the 1st egg which is not fresh.
All collected eggs I store in the fridge and by day 6/7 boil them all up (they cook quickly, just cook a little while longer once they start floating).
I feed them back to my finches mashed with shells and all. 7-8 little eggs don't go far in the aviary.
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Well tonight I got to try two of our eggs. So small I hardly got a taste but they were certainly nice. :)
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