@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 ♬ […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Tools make the job easier I tell you…
We started with quail adults at the end of December. It’s now the end of February – and 2 months exactly since we got our first birds. These little Coturnix Quail are amazing creatures that we love raising, and I am glad we have chosen to do so. We are […]
Sad Quail lady is Sad
Well… We tried right? Last night was candling night and we trepidatiously opened the incubator after having meticulously kept watch over the temperatures with our little Govee… -0- Viability. We discovered hairline cracks when candling in a dark room that we’d not seen before. Some glowed in the dark with […]
Hatching Day
Today is an exercise in patience. We put 48 eggs into the incubator on the 19th of January and expected to see some signs of hatching by February the 4th. Well, we did – one little egg pipped, its tiny beak cracking through the shell, and then… we saw nothing […]