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Swagbucks, Quail, and Rabbits

October 2nd, 2013 at 04:19 am

Most of the time I only manage to get $25 in gift cards to Amazon from my Swagbucks stuff, but I had a little more time to waste in September since DS is actually doing most of his homeschooling without my input. So I managed to get $50 in gift cards this month.

And I hit the daily goal every day, so will get a bonus for that on top of the daily goal bonus here in a day or two. Probably my biggest change is doing their surveys. I didn't even start trying to do surveys until August. I tend to qualify for 3 to 4 of the big ones each week and at least one of the smaller ones.

I had originally planned on using my Amazon gift cards for Christmas, but I have been saving cash for that as well and have a good balance. So I am thinking of using my gift cards to buy quail supplies instead. I can get a good book on raising them and an incubator with quail egg inserts from Amazon.

I can make the brooder out of a cattle watering tub and a plywood board we already have with a spot cut out for the heat lamp to go through. They would live in the garage. We have the feeders from raising chicks and all I'd need is to get some marbles to put in the chick waterers we have. The marbles prevent the baby quail from climbing in and drowning.

The quail stay in the brooder until they are five weeks old. We'd have to build a pen for them to finish growing out in. We will be raising coturnix and they start laying eggs at 7 weeks old and are fully mature at 8 weeks old. We will then choose three males and 9 females. We will set them up in the outdoor rabbit hutches as breeding quartets for eggs. The rest we will butcher for meat. Incubation of eggs only takes 17 days. I'd like to eventually have 6 males with 18 females for breeding and eggs, but space constraints make that impossible before we move.

I canned my first batch of rabbit meat. I've never canned meat before. I ended up with six quart jars of meat. I didn't can the ribcage sections. Instead I used them to make stock and canned it, too. You can read about that on the farm blog if you like:

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http://whendidthisbecomeafarm.wordpress.com/2013/10/01/first... It is nice to have some canned meat. I am always afraid the freezer will go out in a power failure. They rarely happen here, but they used to happen all the time at the old house.

Speaking of the old house, we are meeting with a realtor there tomorrow. Can't believe we finally get to move forward on getting it on the market.

5 Responses to “Swagbucks, Quail, and Rabbits”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
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    How exciting to finally be meeting with the realtor. Great job on the Swagbucks, and it sounds like a great plan for using your Amazon gift cards.

  2. Miz Pat Says:
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    What do you do with the eggs? Do they taste good?

  3. LuckyRobin Says:
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    MP--We will eat some and incubate the others for more chicks. They taste pretty much like chicken eggs, but you need five quail eggs to get the equivalent of one chicken egg.

  4. looking forward Says:
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    I have only had canned meat once and it was very good.
    When you move out to you future farm and the power situation is more iffy I would think of getting a whole house backup generator. It will automatically kick on when you lose power.

  5. SicilyYoder Says:
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    I am very proud of you! I am a canner too, but haven't done it since my car wreck. Any kind of meat can be canned.

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