ABOUT US - CBF SUPER QUAIL


The CBF in CBF Super Quail (and yes, they really are SUPER) stands for Cinda Brent Family. This is a family venture ever so much, and we all enjoy it. My husband Frank enjoys the birds, too - but due to his disabilities is unable to do much with them. Other active party is our son Jake, who helped tremendously in the construction of the poultry house, and miscellaneous help with fencing and pens. We couldn't have done it without you, THANKS A MILLION!

                                   

So how on earth did we get started in all of this? Well, when I met Frank he had a small home flock of chickens, just for personal use - lots of tasty eggs, a few eating birds, and enjoying hatching the babies. He had raised quail and pheasant before, and we got a few of them at that time also. Boy did ol' Cinda get hooked on that!

We moved from Ohio to Arkansas in 1999 and with us a handful of chickens, bobwhites and ringneck pheasant. We had to start over from scratch again recently, as we no longer had any of the original birds or their offspring that we moved with. Let me see if I can get the order on this right, again...we acquired a few "hand-me-down" misc. chickens from some friends. Next, Frank got the poultry bug and had ordered Bobwhite eggs and got me interested in the Jersey Giants. It has been a steady downhill slide from there, enter into the picture Ringnecks, Turkeys, and Ornamental Pheasant.....we love them all! (Except the guineas, more hate than love in that relationship scenario.)

The birds are a great source of enjoyment. As I mentioned earlier, I'm a sucker for hatching little babies and I get to do lots and lots of that. I love fresh eggs. Wow, I'm set for life there, too. Fresh poultry on the table is a good payback as well, I got to eat my first guinea a while back and LOVED IT. We have flight pens now for the pheasant and all of the birds have covered pens to keep predators out, we also have poultry netting so that wild birds don't get in. It's great to sit out in the evening and watch the birds just doing there thing, the guineas have done a great job of keeping the bugs down. When you can sit outside in the evening in Arkansas where rice is grown nearby and there's a pond on your property, and not get eaten alive or carried away by mosquitos.....it's nothing shy of a miracle! But it doesn't make tolerating the constant yapping of the guineas much better. I know who is next to go on the table - the one who yaps the most and loudest.

We will be adding a screen room to the back of the house to sit out and watch the birds completely bugless, I think that room will become a favorite around here. The birds really are that nice to watch, TV is dull in comparison.

Frank and I are especially fond of cooking, and sharing good food with our friends. This affords us a wonderful opportunity to share poultry products with our family and friends in a wide variety of ways. We love all of them!

Hope to update soon with some more pictures, but this will have to do for now.


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