Flordia Quail requirements

[Athenad]

I'm planning to raise quail in flordia. Like 12 to 15 birds. I've build a double large hutch for them and bought an incubator and everything, these will be for PERSONAL USE ONLY.
I'm trying to understand the requirements to raise quail for flordia. I've seen online that a permit might be required but I've also read that that's not the case for less than 50 quail. Or it might be permit required but only if you sell them. Or permit required period.
I'm curious that if a permit is required how crazy is it to get one? (Requirements and time)
I'm also wondering if anyone has experience with this and if they can help guide me or explain to me the correct answer?

Thanks folks and God bless.

 

[TwoCrows]

What type of Quail are you interested in keeping? Generally in most states, permits are required for Quail that are wild and native to the United States....Bobwhites, Gambles, Montezuma, etc.... And non native species like Coturnix or Button Quail do not require a permit. (This protects our native Quail populations should any of yours get loose and spread disease, genetics, etc...to the wild populations.)

The best place to start is your city town hall. They should be able to provide you with all written ordinances or tell you where to find these laws.

Good luck and I hope you get to keep them, super fun little birds!

 

[Athenad]

I was going to do coturnix, mountain, or blue scale quail for the eggs. I plan to call the game and wildlife place on Monday. I just heard about the permit thing today as a potential and was going to try to become more informed before then



I personally think it's silly to need a permit for something like this, I'm trying to just be more self sustainable and get away from relying on the corpoate/capitalism America BS.



But if I'm going to get fined and outrageous amount for this then I'll do hat I need too.

 

[TwoCrows]

Fines are pretty stiff when it comes to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, especially now that so many species are on the endangered list. It's cheaper and less hassle just to get a permit.

 

[007Sean]

I was going to do coturnix, mountain, or blue scale quail for the eggs. I plan to call the game and wildlife place on Monday. I just heard about the permit thing today as a potential and was going to try to become more informed before then



I personally think it's silly to need a permit for something like this, I'm trying to just be more self sustainable and get away from relying on the corpoate/capitalism America BS.



But if I'm going to get fined and outrageous amount for this then I'll do hat I need too.

You will need a permit for Blue Scale and Mountain quail. If this is your 1st time raising any quail species, I would recommend staying away from the Blue Scale and Mountain quail, although not 'expert category' they are a bit more demanding than Coturnix quail....get you're 'feet wet' with Coturnix before jumping into the deep end with other species of quail.

And if you're just doing this for sustainability, then Blue Scale, Mountain, Valley, Gambles, Mearns, Bobwhites, are not the way to go!....Coturnix are the best for those purposes.

 

[TwoCrows]

X2 on what @007Sean just said, of you are using these birds for food or eggs, any bird other than Coturnix is useless. Coturnix mature up in 7+ weeks, Blue Scale, Mountain, etc... take many months to nearly a year to mature, breed and lay.

 

[Athenad]

Do you not think I'd need a permit for coturnix quail?

 

[TwoCrows]

Do you not think I'd need a permit for coturnix quail?

I really doubt it. The permit is used to track any native species. Coturnix Quail won't effect the environment if they get loose.

 

[Athenad]

This is only for sustainability for my family. Hence why I'm also keeping it small scale. This is the hutch I've built for them, it has an auto egg collection setup.

 

[Athenad]

I've done so much work and research into all this that I'd be kinda really POd if I need a permit and can't get one at this point. Lol