Annie here, and this has been a busy week and a half since I returned from the SouthWest with my teenaged son. We traveled through the Mojave, the Sonora, and finally the Chihuahua deserts, before returning to the plains and woodlands. Three of those deserts had egg traveling carefully secured […]
We’re So Eggcited!
We are going to be at the Treasures in the Park Event as TinyFeather Homestead and Woodworking! We hope you’ll join us as we will have our quail eggs there for 4.00 a dozen, and many woodworking items as well – Fall and Winter Holiday related! And OF COURSE! It’ll […]
Checking in from the road!
So our teenage son and I have been making our way south today, having woken up super early. We’ll be driving into Arizona and picking up eggs from an NPIP breeder a bit west of Phoenix. Why do we do this? We believe in genetic diversity and in strengthening our […]
Greetings from the Mojave Desert!
Yeah – I know, you’re probably wondering what Annie is doing in the Mojave Desert… as of today, getting sick because I forgot to drink enough water and am not used to the heat. I’m doing better now, and tomorrow I begin the trip south with my teenage son traveling […]
Overload of Cuteness
@genxmidwife There are so many that we haven’t counted them yet. In just a few days they say goodbye to their hatch mates and 2/3 go to their new homes. The remaining babies will get big brooders to themselves as this is not the long-term brooder. #quailkeeping #coturnixquail #quailhatchlings ♬ […]
Lessons learned so far this year
August is a busy time on the homestead. Yeah, I know it’s our first year as an official tiny homestead, but still… it’s time for preservation, doing inventory on what we have for glass jars, and do we have enough, determining what needs to be restocked and where it’s resourced […]
It’s been busy on the TinyFeather Homestead, and I stink at blogging…
This weekends goal is to finish the Coop, and the next set of Quail cages. I am also getting a breeding set put together for a very sweet woman who is picking them up on Saturday. My pharoh population rebuild birds, but we have more of that feather type in […]
Aqualium Brooder
Can you brood quail babies in a large fish tank or reptile aquarium? Yes, you can! We have a 27 Gallon reptile tank brooder. Gary built an internal coated hardwire bottom raising the bottom of the space about 2-3in tall. With scraps he built crisis cross the bottom for support […]
Our Latest Hatch and Updates!
On May 14, we picked up just over 2 dozen quail eggs from a local farmer and popped them into a freshly cleaned incubator. Why not incubate our own when we are getting 2-3 dozen eggs from our own quail a day? Well, we have been hatching our own and […]
Sending a clutch to it’s new home.
A father and son are about to pick up all our hatchlings from the last hatch. It’s ok – we have more in the incubator – we are not going to be out of quail, but this is a first for us. We aren’t shipping eggs off, this is a […]