Quote (thesnipa @ May 19 2021 03:53pm)
ive thought of quails, damn quiet too from what ive heard. beats the squawks of cornish after a few weeks.
also, related, Justin Rhodes is a big youtube homesteader, and a bit of a fraud imo. gives lessons and sells plans, but neglects to mention his homestead runs on hundreds of thousands of pateron and youtube cash each year. well last week he bragged about putting cornish on grass on week 2, instead of week 3 like he normally does. spring cold and wet hit and he lost like 50% of them overnight. OOOOOOFFFFFF
they're talkative, but they dont screech or anything, atleast with the bobwhites we raised (other breeds i dunno). a little practice and you can kinda get em to do stuff too once you figure out their different cadences. like, if they were being rowdy i'd whistle in the pattern they did when they saw a hawk and they'd all shut up and settle down for a bit. the 'bobwhite' call is a locator, btw. you sound off around the corner or something, let em call back, and show up and they're more likely to think of you as a bird and less as a threat.
and no idea who that dude is, but there arent many 'homesteaders' on youtube who post frequently who are actually doing it legit. you wouldnt have the time, lol. also, how the fuck do you not know what your birds can and cant handle after you do it a couple times? push em out a week early is np, but you gotta pay much closer attention to the weather or give em an actual coop with a heat lamp. they're dumb, but unless they're domestic turkey dumb they wont kill themselves from hypothermia. i never did cornish anything for meat, and i cant remember what the breed was we'd raise for butchering. but we could only take em ~10 weeks, else they just got too fuckin big and couldnt carry themselves around anymore. usually butchered out 11-13 pounds.
Quote (Haseo @ May 19 2021 03:58pm)
Wtf with bird nerds
just a different kind of redneck, thats all.
This post was edited by meegz1 on May 19 2021 02:59pm