Join Mark from Self Sufficient Me as he shares an update on his quail breeding project. In this video, Mark walks you through his brooder setup, discusses recent modifications for chick safety, and ...
A few months ago, I wrote about my grandfather's intention to reintroduce bobwhite quail into southeastern Minnesota. The bobwhite, once prevalent and actively hunted until 1958, is almost nonexistent ...
My eleven-year-old son is an amateur naturalist. He takes his cue, literally, from The Amateur Naturalist by Gerald Durrell (from The Durrells). My friend lent him her childhood copy and he has ...
In this video, I explain how I set my brooder up and transfer newly hatched coturnix quail chicks from the incubator to the brooder.
It all started with a YouTube video and a child who wanted to be Gerald Durrell. One moment we were saying “maybe” to hatching pet quail eggs, and the next we were sneaking an incubator into the loft.
Over the past several decades, a number of programs to restore our quail population have been recommended. But unless we include all of the reasons for our quail loss, these programs will fail. That ...
Eric Stromberg: Quail they, I think a lot of people are interested in quail, especially when you might not have a lot of land, and I don’t know what your circumstances are, but a lot of people will ...
Happy Wife Acres is currently tending to around 70 quail on their farm in Fairborn. People wanting to be more self sufficient have been flocking to raising chickens. But these birds can be time and ...