Guail in South Carolina

[kyle bullock]

I am wanting to start raising Quail in South Carolina and don't know if i can make a profit from them.

So will i make money.
Will I have many problems.
Will i be able to sell the adult quail and to who.

 

[dc3085]

Unless you invest a pretty serious amount of time and money they will never do anything more than pay for feed and maybe buy you a tank of gas and a nice dinner a couple times a month.

What type of quail were you thinking of?

What would you be raising them for? Meat production, shooting preserves, egg production?

How much space do you have to work with? Do you have buildings or are you willing to build them?

Cages for large breeding operations will be very expensive whether you purchase or build them, so consider that you will begin with a substantial amount of overhead. Wire is expensive and there aren't any alternatives.

Have you raised quail before? There is a learning curve regarding hatching and managing a flock, so if you aren't an experienced keeper expect to have losses, and remember they will be part of your cost.

Feed is quite expensive so if you want to make money at it you will have to be stringent in your feed program and infrastructure.

Give us a little more info and maybe we can help save or make you some money.

 

[streetmutt]

I live in South Carolina! I know of three businesses with quail within 40 min of me.

One is a meat farmer who raises his own animals and sells the meat and the eggs at the farmers market. The quail are a small part of what he does. But I know he makes like $20/doz eggs. Our business is at the same farmers market and I'm tempted to go and take my eggs and sell them for $12/doz lol

The second is a bobwhite seller, I don't know him but I pass his house.

The third is my source for chicks. He always seems to have more than he needs because the demand isn't as high as he's producing. I'm probably his best customer

 

[mrwoodboat]

I am in Columbia SC and so far, I have not found that there is much demand for Coturnix quail- the Bobwhites, yes, but not so much for Coturnix....chicks go for $1 to $1.50, adult birds barely bring more than $4.00 and I have not found an outlet for eggs

 

[dc3085]

The demand for coturnix is highest in health food conscience areas. For instance where I live near San Francisco has a fantastic market for coturnix eggs and chicks. Where my sister lives 2 hours south of me, you couldn't give coturnix away. If you are really interested in selling coturnix eggs or birds, look for those types of areas. Japanese restaurants including sushi places use coturnix eggs and usually have a hard time finding them, so you can chekc that out too.

 

[islandantoinett]

Hon are you really serious in So. Carolina paying $20 for a dozen free range quail eggs?
We are from Hawai'i and that is even beyond our prices. Whow! We are moving to So. Carolina in just 4 days and would love to put it out there to anyone who has a heart and would respond to give us names of rental agents in the state who rent to people who love to have chickens, geese, ducks, cat, dog etc.
We are farming people just looking to rent a small acreage and have our animals and live in peace in nature. We are a retired couple. I bred pedigree Goldens for years am a retired RN and we are presently in Colorado for a surgery I had done. Don't want to own any more houses at this stage in our lives, looking to RENT a decent house can pay up to $1100 even to the ocean is fine.
Love Light and Aloha to everyone in The Chicken Coop

Thank you. Sign me not a city person.

 

[streetmutt]

Good luck finding acreage to rent in that price range unless you're gonna be near the I-95 corridor of shame, island.

Where you going to be?

A crappy 3-bed home 45 min from charleston with zero acreage will cost $1500 to rent. We ended up buying brand new with zero acreage with our mortgage being half that. Rental prices are ridiculous around here.

There's a home with acreage (13) an hour from Charleston and that's $285k. And the home is a mobile home (not that there is anything wrong with that but jeepers that's expensive for a mobile home).

And as for $20/doz, people pay anything at the farmer's markets and the farmers take advantage of it. You can't get good prices there. This guy also sells a dozen eggs (from chickens not fed an organic and nonGMO diet and semi free ranging) for $5/doz. I don't know how he does it!

I've seen farmers sell GMO, not organic corn for $3 an ear too.

BTW, we're at the farmer's market too and give people a fair price on everything. For some reason, that scares off people. We're an edible landscaping company and we sell locally made from locally sourced wood planters for 1/3 of what Lowes charges, and we only sell like three planters a week. I bet they'd move faster if we charged 4x as much! LOL

 

[Wildivy2112]

I'm the Upstate SC Spartanburg. You would probably have better luck up this way. Stay away from Anderson or Greenville counties due to ordinances. Spartanburg Pickens oconee or Cherokee counties more animal friendly. Try Craigslist for rentals or Google rental companies.

 

[islandantoinett]

Whow am I shocked, but I guess I shouldn't be. The VERY SAME THING was going on in Hawai'i on the Big Island where I lived for 35 yrs. It got so bad in everyway we left.
So sad to see the same thing going on here.
We are in Colo. have been since March (originally from here) and can't find ANYTHING to live in under $1,500. That's a tiny apt. and we have a dog, Golden small one. No one wants to even take pets. IT is crazy. We had no idea renting was SO HARD! Thank you for your honesty and reply. It's sad because we have no choice but to go SOMEWHERE, we want to be where we can get fish to eat, not meat and get fat. All we want is peace and a place to live does that seem to be asking "so much"? Please say a BIG prayer for us. This is much harder at 60 than it was at 23! LOL
Love Light and ALoha to you this day. We are leaving the 5th. and today is the 1st so have to go start packing the van yet again.
Antoinette