More Coturnix Hatching
So far, 42 coturnix quail have been hatched and moved to the brooder. More are hatching as we speak. Most of them are pharaoh colored, but I have a handful […]
Category Archives: Quail
Coturnix Quail Hatching
Has it really been seven days since I posted? There has been a lot of things going on, including working on my dissertation, the hatching another set of coturnix, baby […]
All the Things…
Why is it that I run out of cages right before I go on a work trip?! I am going to Duluth to present my dissertation research for five days. […]
The Hatching Things
Well, the 80+ bobwhite quail eggs that i set a few days ago are starting to hatch. So far, I got 10 of them out. I also have 8 khaki […]
Introducing Huey, Duey, and Louey
It is oppressively humid tonight, and I can see lighting flashing across the Western sky. Anyways, I wax poetic from time to time, but things are humming along on the […]
Pheasant and Chukar Eggs
I put 80 eggs into the Styrofoam incubator, and 30 eggs into my cooler incubator. 50% ring neck pheasant, and 50% chukar partridge. The bobwhite quail eggs were candled, and […]
Bobwhite Quail Eggs in Incubation
After experiencing success with free range ducks, and a successful coturnix quail hatch, I decided to get back into the game bird business. I installed my quail rails into my […]
Hatched Quail and Hatching Ducks
Well, the quail hatched a day early (Friday, 4/17) meaning my temp is just a wee bit too high. I have a variety of colors and sets, a Texas A&M, […]
New Incubator
Don’t get me wrong, I love my automatic temperature regulating coolerbator. It has been back in business for the last week and a half with the collected duck eggs that […]
Midget Quail Egg
I found a midget quail egg!!! Now, quail eggs are tiny to start (it takes 3-4 to make up a chicken egg), and this one is smaller than most songbird […]
Why are there never enough cages?
I leave on Saturday morning at 7 AM to go to Long Beach, CA for the Soil Science Society for America meeting (so excited, many things that I planned and […]
Tricked Out Quail!
Quail need 14 hours of daylight to lay through the winter… And usually stop laying in October. I, however, want fresh eggs year round for incubation and eating. Nummy! So, […]
Bobwhites Hatch!
And 23 days ago, my friend Lana gave me some of her Bobwhite quail eggs (10 of them). So far, 3 hatched right on time. I won’t open the incubator […]
Bad Day on the Homestead
So, I went back up to WI where i came from on Thursday. I get a phone call that night that momma bunny and her two babies had died sometime […]
The Great Composting Quail
So, I found adult, egg laying quail for $3 per bird. So I got 14 quail. 7 Texas A&M quail (5 females, 2 males), and seven of the Pharaoh quail […]
I am an Idiot, Part 2
Well, I am an idiot! Because the temperatures in the incubator was a bit high, I went to put the incubator on lockdown, and a bunch of eggs had already […]
Hatching!
Well, I think that the temp was a bit high in the incubator, as the eggs were supposed to go into lockdown today. But, low and behold, I walk in […]
Incubation On!!!
So, I managed to rewire the incubator once I got the new temperature regulator device. Who’s ready to set some coturnix quail eggs? I got 120 eggs off eBay for […]
Baby Pictures and an Evil Preditor
Well, I woke up Saturaday morning, and all of my breeding female quails in growout were missing. All that was left was feathers, and a single wing. Whatever ate them […]
Homesteading is Mocking Me
There has been a lot of upheaval on the homestead as of late… What with the buying of a house (long story, and no, I wasn’t breaking any city codes […]
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