I posted about some of the things that I learned in Rachel's quail class on Flickr, and one of my contacts told me how she raises quail.
I watched her videos and read her blog, and found it very interesting. She uses a gentle chicken hen to brood and
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We are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our incubator and would prefer to get our eggs local. I grew up helping my Uncle raise a variety of chickens and game birds. We are very excited for our 14 year old to experience the foul fun that I gre
Read more…Many of us will get our first freeze of the season this week and that gets people a little panicky about their birds. Chickens are perfectly adapted to take any amount of cold that the Phoenix area can throw at them; we really don't get cold enough h
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I am going to downsize my quail operation- I currently have two pens- and I've decided to part with one.
When I got started with the quail I built a 3' x 5' pen with four doors, and extensions on the side with th
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I just hatched out 98 quail babies. I know some of you got your original stock from me and it might be time to refresh your genetics. These are from a different bloodline in California, most came from above average-sized eggs (jumbos). I hav
Hello all-I was wondering if anyone is going to be incubating eggs and is interested in selling me a few chicks, or if anyone would recommend a local place that I could purchase chicks from? I've been doing a lot of reading and research and I would l
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