A One Acre Farmhouse
Are sweet, cotton candy pink chicken eggs the color you want to add to your egg basket next? Wondering how breeders are getting such awesome pastel shades that seem impossible? If you’re on the hunt for these rare hatching eggs or the secret breeding recipe to create pink hued Easter Egger eggs, you have found […]
If you want to breed guaranteed blue or green egg laying hens, there is a very simple breeding recipe you can follow! It produces 100% blue or green laying offspring (whichever you prefer) and the best part is that it’s EASY to do! Here is how to breed guaranteed blue & green egg layers: How […]
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 […]
