Specialty Chickens and Quail for the Modern Homestead
Our Family’s Favorite Muffin Recipe These muffins are our family’s favorite easy grab-and-go breakfast or snack to have on hand. They are full of fruits and veggies but eating them, you would never know it. I like to use our quail eggs in them, instead […]
Here are some tips and tricks we have learned over the years of hatching quail eggs, along with our favorite Incubators to use.
One of the things that originally drew us to raising quail, was how easy they are to care for. Their needs are pretty basic, and once you know what they are, quail can quickly become one of the easiest animals to raise on your homestead. This goes for winter time too!
I don’t know about you, but eggs pile up in my kitchen quickly! I love my go-to recipes that I know will use up a good amount of eggs. Here is one of my favorite “egg” recipes that I always make up if I […]
The Incredible Quail Egg… I brag all the time about how AMAZING quail are. They have quickly become my favorite pocket-sized producer here on our homestead… More than the garden, more than the chickens or goats, definitely more than our equine companions, and they […]
Baby it’s cold outside! At least it is here in the mountains of Western North Carolina. I don’t know about you, but I am a big baby when it comes to winter and the cold. You can find me curled up next to my woodstove, […]
Sometimes our eggs have Schmutz on them. That’s right, Schmutz. It isn’t necessarily poop. Though it can be. It usually is some mud or whatnot. This is because our quail are raised on the ground. And so their eggs are also layed on the ground. […]
A really common question I get from my customers is how do you introduce new chicks to your existing flock of chickens? This is such an important question, and you will get TONS of answers depending on who you ask! Well over the years, we […]
Today I wanted to tell you about Quail and why you NEED to have some on your farm/homestead/urban homestead/backyard/spare bedroom. OK I may be stretching it with the spare bedroom thing, but no, really, you need some! Quail are such a fabulous addition to any […]
Lets start at the very beginning; a very good place to start. (extra credit if you just sang that line from “The Sound of Music“!) So you are just like me and you couldn’t resist the “chick fever” any longer. You went out (with or […]