This video shows how I release our quail from the brooder to the pen now that they are old enough and I describe the signs I ...

In this video, I explain how I set my brooder up and transfer newly hatched coturnix quail chicks from the incubator to the ...

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 ...

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.

Raising chicks is infinitely easier than incubating eggs, but there is still much more to it than just plopping them in a coop. They need a toasty-warm mini-coop – a brooder – to nurture them into ...

Getting started raising poultry is both exciting and rewarding in many ways. If you’re a hobby farmer or a beginner, an important key to health and growth is making sure they’re being raised in the ...

Michael Patane got the call at about 7 a.m. Thursday from the Canastota Post Office telling him the bobwhite quail chicks had arrived. Patane rushed over to pick up nearly a dozen cardboard boxes ...