Meanwhile, back in Havana

[El Presidente]

This week's hair brained scheme. 

Now I am a dumb bastard but I can't quite work out why they don't just focus on ....I don't know....CHICKENS!   There is a reason quail eggs are the domain of chefs and restaurants. 

HAVANA TIMES – The Cuban government intends to “incorporate” quail meat and eggs into the Cuban diet, according to official television on Monday. The goal, in its words, is to achieve “food sovereignty,” the euphemism that they usually use as a synonym for scarcity, which is growing every day.

A few days ago, a report on Perlavisión announced that the production of this bird is increasing in Cienfuegos. Specifically, in the First of January Base Business Unit, in the Cienfuegos municipality of Palmira, they claim to have 39,000 quails at the moment, and they expect to reach 60,000 before the end of this year.

Employees of the provincial Poultry Company explain that each quail lays between 280 and 300 eggs a year, while a hen lays between 240 and 250 eggs in the same period.

Likewise, they emphasize that quails grow quickly and can lay eggs from 45 days of age, while for chickens you have to wait six months.  “They are easy to breed, with a good temperament,” and feeding them is cheaper: for one hen that is fed, three quail are satisfied.

Cubans have been seeing for some time, not without surprise, that both on the black market and on online home delivery sites these eggs are being sold, while the chicken eggs disappear. “Small but tasty, ideal for boiling and placing in a salad, but of course impossible for a tortilla,” says a neighbor of Centro Habana who has bought them at 300 pesos a carton with 30 quail eggs.

The official media praise the product: “Although a third smaller, it has the same kilocalories, the same fat and more protein.” In addition, it has lower cholesterol, “more nutrition, greater digestibility and increases hemoglobin.”

[Ken Gargett]

used to breed quails when much younger. they pop out eggs like you can't imagine. if they can sort it out - being cuba, good luck - there is some sense to it all. 

[El Presidente]

15 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

used to breed quails when much younger. they pop out eggs like you can't imagine. if they can sort it out - being cuba, good luck - there is some sense to it all. 

Ken, how many quail eggs would you need for a standard/ normal 3 egg (chicken) omelette?

[99call]

6 hours ago, El Presidente said:

sovereignty

If it's any thing like the miracle of brexit 'sovereignty' we are currently experiencing in the UK,   spoiler alert..............it's dogshit

 

I think its a 3 to 1 type of deal

 

[Ken Gargett]

31 minutes ago, El Presidente said:

Ken, how many quail eggs would you need for a standard/ normal 3 egg (chicken) omelette?

i don't think that would be their most efficient use but when did you last have an omelette in cuba? and if we go by that, we'd all have ostriches in the back yard. they have their uses but they are fiddly to eat. 

another benefit, when was the last time you met a fighting quail? people could eat the things rather than see them treated better than they treat their own families. 

[El Presidente]

5 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

another benefit, when was the last time you met a fighting quail? 

I have seen you eat. You could do 10 quail for lunch. 

 

Come clean Ken Mohammed Gargett. You were breeding them for sport......you callous bastard 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHTTTG2_aAo

 

[Ken Gargett]

4 hours ago, El Presidente said:

I have seen you eat. You could do 10 quail for lunch. 

Come clean Ken Mohammed Gargett. You were breeding them for sport......you callous bastard

they have fighting quail? who knew? 

[RedLantern]

My understanding is that quail lay of lot of eggs, but they lay them just hiddley piddley all over the ground and not in nesting boxes or anything convenient to gather. 

[Ken Gargett]

13 minutes ago, RedLantern said:

My understanding is that quail lay of lot of eggs, but they lay them just hiddley piddley all over the ground and not in nesting boxes or anything convenient to gather. 

my quails were certainly a bit like that but they would normally lay them in nests of a sort that they had built on the ground - or at least, scratched out. they would lay them in a group. but very often they would not hatch. some did - very cute to have these tiny tiny birds scurrying around. but 90 plus % never hatched. 

[NSXCIGAR]

1 hour ago, RedLantern said:

My understanding is that quail lay of lot of eggs, but they lay them just hiddley piddley all over the ground and not in nesting boxes or anything convenient to gather. 

It's a good thing labor's cheap in Cuba. 

Does anyone know how these things even taste? 

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, NSXCIGAR said:

It's a good thing labor's cheap in Cuba. 

Does anyone know how these things even taste? 

delicacy. 

[NSXCIGAR]

6 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

they have fighting quail? who knew? 

Apparently it's big in Afghanistan. 

[Fugu]

Not the way to go should it be about resources efficiency in a starving population... ahem food sovereignty. And quail as ineffectual as chicken.

[anacostiakat]

This is chicken shit.  

[Dozerhead]

Quail are very tasty. They're just so darned small it takes 3 or 4 to make a meal, but they ate excellent table fare.

[Corylax18]

I'm sure this will work out just as well as their "Ostrich Plan" a couple years ago. It's obvious that the species of bird is the problem, not the total decay of the entire agricultural system on the island. 🙄

 

[PigFish]

Bolivar Demi Tasse out. Chicken Demi Tasse in. Make perfect sense.

[Fugu]

1 hour ago, Corylax18 said:

I'm sure this will work out just as well as their "Ostrich Plan" a couple years ago.

And what happened to their guinea pig move ... 😂

[Cigar Surgeon]

Never ceases to blow my mind that one of the most fertile growing regions in the world struggles with food insecurity. 

[99call]

51 minutes ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

Never ceases to blow my mind that one of the most fertile growing regions in the world struggles with food insecurity. 

yep, utter madness

[Arabian]

1 hour ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

Never ceases to blow my mind that one of the most fertile growing regions in the world struggles with food insecurity. 

You heard about Egypt importing wheat from Russia?

[Cigar Surgeon]

3 hours ago, Arabian said:

You heard about Egypt importing wheat from Russia?

Dry, hot, and lots of drought though. Vs Cuba where you plant a fart and get a fart tree.

[BoliDan]

40 minutes ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

Dry, hot, and lots of drought though. Vs Cuba where you plant a fart and get a fart tree.

I tried to imagine what a fart tree looks like and now I need to go bleach my brain