A One Acre Farmhouse
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 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 by egg color. Simply scroll […]
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 […]
Just-hatched Coturnix quail chicks are teensy, with very thin legs and fragile bodies. Despite this, breeders often have a real need for leg banding the itty bitty chicks in some way so they can keep track of who is standard sized, celadon laying or jumbo. In this article I’ll share where I get my tiny […]
Olive green eggs – and especially dark moss colored eggs – have become incredibly popular among backyard chicken keepers and for good reason! The range of stunning, earthy tones a hen can lay is fascinating. If you love these rich, avocado green eggs, we will walk beginners through how to breed for olive eggers and […]
The outside of a chicken egg can be a huge range of colors but did you know the base shell color in domestic chickens can only be white or blue? It’s true! Brown chicken eggs are actually a white shell with tint over them and they are white – not brown – on the inside! […]
Everyone knows jumbo quail exist but what about jumbo celadon Coturnix quail who lay big blue eggs? They are RARE but they do exist and can be bred! I’ll share egg pictures from my own Jumbo Celadon breeding project covey with scale weights visible in some of the photos showing egg weights over 15 grams. […]
What if I told you there is a common pizza topping that you could feed your hens to give them a boost of dietary nutrients that would turn their yolks orange in 48 hours? While this sounds crazy – or maybe even like it is cheating – I assure you that feeding this one healthy […]
Every spring the scammers come out of their seedy little hidey holes to swindle new backyard chicken keepers out of their hard earned money. Worse, the tricks and tactics used are getting sneakier and more sophisticated. Thousands of dollars are lost by chicken buyers every year so make sure you are aware of the ways […]
