Coturnix Quail

   As many of you now know, we raise Coturnix (Japanese) Quail.

A baby Coturnix quail.

They are great for eggs or for eating.   The eggs are highly nutritious and just pretty to look at.

Quail eggs

Another great thing is that they mature at 6 WEEKS of age and start laying fertile eggs then.   Amazing, huh?
     Finally, the way to tell the male from the female is really easy.

This is a female quail.   The females have the black spotted pattern on their chest.

This is a male quail.  They have the copper color on their chest.

        If you have never heard a quail make sounds before, be sure to click on the above video.  Very unique and interesting!

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Babies on the Brain

    Here on the homestead we have babies, babies, and more babies.  It is easy to say that we have babies on the brain.  We have baby quail, chicks, ducks, and goats right now.  We also have 9 more eggs in the incubator and a Boer doe due real soon.

Here are 3 of the 7 baby quail.  They are 2 weeks old.

The two dark chicks are Ameracauna chicks and the light one is a Red Ranger chick.   They are 2 weeks old. 

This is a Phoenix chick.  It is 2 weeks old.

The yellow ones are Pekin ducklings; the black one is a Rouen  duckling and the little one on the far right is a Silver Welsh Harlequin.  They are 5 days old. 

This is Contessa she is a Saanen doeling.  She is  almost 5 weeks old.   She is one of my bottle babies.

This is Casper and he is a Saanen/Nubian cross buckling.  He is almost 6 weeks old.  He is one of my bottle babies. 

Casper and Contessa eating some grains for the first time.

Our pregnant Boer doe.

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