A One Acre Farmhouse
Everyone LOVES a rainbow egg basket with bright blues, vibrant spring greens and unusual aqua toned eggs. But how do you get them? Especially when hatchery birds lay such muted colors or worse – plain old peach! Here I’ll share the breeding recipe I use to create bright layer Easter Eggers for a glowing egg […]
Your incubator is full of eggs due to hatch! But how will you know which chick came from the blue eggs and which came from the green or brown eggs if they all begin hatching overnight while no one is watching? Hatch bags are the easiest, least expensive, and most brilliant low-tech answer to this […]
Quail chick buying panics tend to receive less media attention than chicken chick buying panics but they actually happen more often and last much longer. I believe it is caused by a long-running shortage of US Coturnix quail breeders coupled with the fact that more urban dwellers are opting to quietly keep Coturnix quail. Finding […]
Just-hatched Coturnix quail chicks are fragile and require specialty care. They are not as hardy as chicken chicks and while a few hatcheries are willing to ship day-old quail, losses are more common. In this article I’ll share the absolute best tips, tricks and buy-once products that have greatly increased the survivability of my home-hatched […]
If you’re brand new to quail keeping or are just trying out quail eggs for the first time, the new food (and quail egg scissors) can seem intimidating. We will walk you through all the quick steps of preparing quail eggs for kitchen use with pictures! I promise it is easy! Preparing Quail Eggs for […]
If you’re offering your farm goods online, attention-capturing, crisp, stunning images are everything. In our highly visual society – where you have less than one second to snag someone’s attention before they scroll past blazingly fast – mediocre images no longer cut it. And that can be hard if your specialty is colored chicken egg […]
You’ve put in years of breeding work to craft a gorgeous palette of pastels, an ombre assortment of olives, or a stunning smattering of speckles. But labeling them “F3 Olive” or “Easter Eggers” just does not capture the shock of rare colors your breeding flock is now producing. So what do you call them? Should […]
Chances are good that if you have the internet, you’ve seen incredible pictures online of the brilliant blue, springy green, earthy olive and chocolate eggs online. Rainbow egg baskets are SO PRETTY! If you are wanting to add some new girls to your flock, I’ve got a list of which hatcheries offer different colored layers […]
Scrumptious little super-food quail eggs are adorably cute and fun to use in the kitchen! You already know they scramble and taste just like chicken eggs but what about other uses? I’ve done all the experimenting to show you all the baked goods I made with the backyard-fresh eggs my Coturnix hens laid. How do […]
