QUAIL MATH: How much does an adult quail eat and how much does an egg cost! 

if you figure how many birds you need first, you can figure how much feed you need for their lifetime: 64 birds= 32 F/ 32 M (before culling) 64/16 ounces = 4 lbs of feed per batch of birds per day 4 lbs x 56 days until harvest = 224 lbs 224 lbs of feed / 50 lb bags of feed = 4.48 bags (5 bags) 5 bags of feed x $20/ bag = $100 for the feed to grow out 64 birds to 8 weeks old (harvest) $100 / 64 birds = $1.56 / bird Of those 64 birds, 32 (the females) are laying eggs daily for 4 weeks? 4 weeks x 7 days/week = 28 days of laying 28 days per layer x 32 layers = 896 eggs 32 egg layers x $1.56 / bird = $49.92 for all females' lifetime of feed $49.92 for lifetime feed / 896 eggs = $0.056 per egg (with no losses) 64 birds was based on needing 16 birds per month for eating, and 32 for laying to replenish stock for eggs to eat and eggs to hatch (my math might be wrong on how many birds I need, but it doesn't hurt to pack the freezer!)

Don't put yourself down. Great info!

I watch this 4 times & will probably watch again! Thank You 😊

The time and effort you put in to help everyone is amazing thank you for the time you give to all of use

Thank you for showing this, I wouldn't even know where to start! No need to keep apologizing you are helping us out! Thanks again!

I like the $20/bag because that's what I get 22% protein crumbles for! So my big white Coturnix quail are eating about 5-cents per day of feed. I'm glad that you factored in for the males' feed consumption as well. Most people figure THAT and then wonder why they end up short on feed!

Spectacular info. Thanks. For those saying "but I only pay $xx.xx for 50lbs"... There are many variables. Cost of the feed is just one variable. Are you raising your own replacement hens? Factor in the chick feed before they're laying, too.

Love the math videos. I'm a college culinary arts instructor, these remind me a lot of what my classes on costing out recipes are. Always fun and kinda amazing to see what it actually costs. Thanks Zack!

That was great!! I got it!!! I love the way you break it down. My mind can wrap around this!! Thank you Zack!!

Good Job. Thank you.

I’m horrible at math. This helped me a lot. I haven’t started raising them yet but will soon enough.

Don't apologize! This video was fantastic. Very helpful.

Thank you so much!! You saved me so much work! This is exactly the kind of numbers my husband wants when evaluating wether or not an animal is cost effective for us. We are getting quail chicks next week and I wasnt looking forward to all the tracking to get the numbers for him!! Thank you!! Thank you!!! We will watch your videos as well. 🙂

This is brilliant, I punched all the calcs into an Excel file, and now I have seen the results in changes to my feed cost immediately. Also, how fermenting/sprouting/garden scraps affect my costs too. Very helpful TY!

Very well explained thank you

zack your videos are never boring, there very informative, we need to know this for raising quail.

I am in Ghana and following your channel and all that you do. Thanks for the service

Outstanding logical and common sense presentation. Thank you!

I get my feed from the mill for $14 a 50lb bag seems to do great they lay great on it..

Have the math already done and stop apologizing for your wonderful service that you've provided on this excellent video

Thanks for the video, it's more motivation to get started and to order from you guys. I almost commented that you had a mistake but I see you just rounded 😀 from $0.0547 to $0.05. I did the math kind of backwards of you by figuring out total annual feed LBS first (1.5ozx365daysx1.2 to include rooster), then multiply by $0.40 for annual spend, then divide by 300 eggs/yr to get $0.05475/egg.

Thank u so much. This is extremely helpful to calculate our expenses. Love the Chanel, and continue to do this great work. GOD BLESS..

Loved this

You did a great job. I am not criticizing you with my last comment. Very informative. Thanks.

THANK YOU!!

Great Video.

You explained this really well.

You have great hand writing. Info was great too.

Wonderful info. Thanks for the hard work that went into this video. I will watch again and take good notes. Blessings to you all! 🌺🐣💜

That was quite explicit. Thank you

Really like the video, the frequent apologies. If someone can not understand what you are doing, ... (well, they do not need to be doing quail). You do great, keep it coming.

Hi formula is great, i put together the same basically program in to a Excel format for chickens, just put in the cost plus lbs., and wham bam it is all figured out, thanks for all the post's they have been a great help. Looking to pick up 110 eggs this nest month and getting started producing some good meat and eggs. aging thank you

this helps so much, thank you!

That was an awesome explanation!

Awesome. Thank you! Wish I could write that neatly. 15 minute 32 seconds of awesome video minus 10 minutes of apology equals 5 minute 32 second video. 🤣. Glad for the apologies, I would have thought the video was way too short without them. 😂

Very well explained. Thank you

Thank you for make this it is very helpful.

Great job. Very helpful! Thanks Zack.

Awesome video! Math doesn't like! Ya gotta know what your costs are so you know where did the money go. Feed costs are crazy!

Oh no he used the line "It's not you, it's me!" 😂 I'm going to name 1 of my males Deuce Bigalow male gigolo🤣

You can put this into excel so you don't have to do the math each time, just enter your variables and you'll get a solution.

I love your video. yes, there is a shorter method, it is called excel spreadsheet. Once, you set it up all you have to do is change the number in your inputs.

You could put all this information in an Excel spreadsheet and have it crank out numbers for you so all you had to do every month is plug in the numbers and it will automatically calculate everything so it probably take you 15-20 minutes to set up the spreadsheet and after that it's just a matter of plugging in the numbers it'll save you hours a year

Great Job!! Thanks for explaining this.

This is how I do the math too, you explained it perfectly 👌

Love the video. If you have to do this calculation often I hope you put it in an excel spreadsheet 😂

Keep in mind that compared to a regular large chicken egg, is equal to about 3 Jumbo quail, or 4 Standard quail eggs if used for cooking or baking. Which comes to be about $0.24 equivalent, using your numbers rounding up (3 Jumbo $0.08 per, and 4 Standard $0.06 per quail egg). Crazy thing is a the cheapest carton of eggs from Walmart is about $0.21 (rounded up) per chicken egg. You save $0.03 cents per chicken egg compared to the equivalent quail eggs... But you don't have any idea how fresh the store bought eggs are, or what the chickens were fed, and or treated (antibiotics) with. And you don't get to eat the chicken that laid the egg. So all in all, it is still worth having your own flock of quail that is a renewable source of food for your family, especially with all the love and care you put into the quail to keep them happy and performing well.

50lb x 16oz =800oz. At 2 oz per serving that’s 400 servings. 400 / 20 cost per bag. =.05/serving

Awesome. Thanks. 😊

Good explanation ,bit I use métric sistema (Kg) ,and O have tô do a Lot of transformation.

I understand it! 😀👍

THANK YOU FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sound’s awsome

Yeah I'd just divide the bag price by the number of servings in it, then do the last part. Though that that still requires obtaining some of the prior information first.

thanks very helpful

Good info.

Good info Thanks!

Great explanation 🙂 ur follower from yemen.

Math is always fun

I ordered some eggs from you and they are in shipping stage. I like to wait til i have #s of birds / $26 for 50 pound bag of 30% game bird starter = cost per bird 50 pound bag should last me a month with an estimate of 25 birds

Thanks. $20 is h9w much I do pay.

Seems to me you could use a spread sheet to create a formula where all you would have to do is plug in your #s But I'm not sure. I have extremely limited knowledge in this area

Good video though I must say all the conversions are giving me PTSD flashbacks to college chemistry.

So If I paid $40 the cost is double? and converted to Canadian. $CAN 0.10/ egg

wow you guys are still in the past... pound and ounce stuff.......... Does England use that anymore?

I luv your shirt, do you sell them?

HUH .. LOL .. It sounds right to me .. It does make sense but Definitely mind boggling

Thank you so much for doing this. I've been wondering how much my quailies cost me as I move into the quail products markets. Another market that I'd like more information about is schooling and offering incubator and eggs for schools and home schooling. Is there any money in this?

Here is some Chicken Math: It takes 2.6 pounds of chicken feed for 1 pound of meat. This is for Cornish Rock meat birds! The Freedom line of chickens eat LOTS more than that! They both take about 10 weeks! So one 7 pound chicken will need 17.5 or more pounds of feed! Yikes!

To get the price per pound you have to divide price by pound. As in $20 divided by 50 pounds. Zac has done it correctly. I think he said it incorrectly.

Do you have a guesstimate on amount of feed consumed from 0-8 weeks for jumbo?

In the video, you stated that you take the weight of the feed divided by the cost. Actually it's the cost divided by the weight of the feed to get the cost per pound.

$20 / 800 oz = .025 per oz = .05 per day

Thanks man for the video you did . help me a lot. Do you believe creating gmail for sale is a good market? Do you have a video that talks about how much profit you can make selling eggs or meat? purchases over 500 will you get a discount? only females lay eggs? If I buy 500 eggs from you, which one would you have an idea of the rate at which females and males are born? thnaks

i ordered my quail eggs on March first is there a estimate when they will arrive to my home

Just divide by mount of servings in a bag!

Spreadsheet that does these calculations would make it much faster on a regular basis

If you're just considering feed cost, the simplest calculation is to assume 1 egg per day. For jumbos: 2oz of feed goes in, 1 egg comes out. Therefore 1 egg costs 2oz of feed. And of course, feed prices vary.

Just tell us is it good or bad... cos I lost you quite early on.

One comment is your units were off… You’re giving the prices as .05 cents, there should be $.05 if it’s five cents. so your math was really in dollars, which .0 one would be one cent, denominated in dollars. I could see that confusing someone because if they think they’re paying .05 cents per egg, but they’re really paying five cents per egg that is a factor of 100 difference - - that’s my only comment, it was pretty easy to follow. I think there were a few small math errors along the way, but I would think people got the gist.

Why aren’t my quail laying eggs ?

Your hat is a distraction. Getting in the way of your board. Just sayin.