When you start keeping quail, unless you want to butcher all of them, you soon realize how important it is to tell apart hens from roosters. If you want to keep them for eggs only, you don't need any...
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One of the most exciting things about keeping quail is to incubate the eggs you get from your own covey. Once you've incubated your own eggs, you know that you can keep a vicious circle going. But...
Why Are Your Quail Losing Feathers? – And What To Do About It?
Quail are easy to breed and can provide a source of meat and eggs for the family or an income for a small business. Quail also have lovely feathers that are great for arts and crafts projects, event...
When you start keeping quail to have fresh eggs daily, it is so exciting to go to the cage and see if there are any eggs. It can become quite addictive. I still visit my cage several times a day, and...
Jumbo quail and standard quail are different varieties of the same species of small birds that can be reared on a home farm. They both provide a source of nutritious eggs and tasty meat. If you are...
Quail eggs must go into lockdown in the last days of incubation to prepare the chicks for hatching. Getting this right makes a big difference in your hatching rate. But what is a lockdown, why is it...
