B and B Quail Farm

 The eggs arrived! I'd ordered 3 dozen coturnix quail eggs, and they arrived Friday. I put them in the incubator, so now just awaiting the arrival of the baby quail! They arrived in these tiny quail egg cartons. So cute! They arrived with eco-friendly sawdust around them and in the cartons as well, to protect from heat and to keep them safe. Saturday, I went back to the Mobile Flea Market to get 3 more female coturnix, but the girl who has the quail lost her keys and wasn't able to set up at the market. I was very disappointed, but maybe the trio will carry on for now without the male over-sexing the two females. More soon!

  Hello and welcome to the B and B Quail Farm blog! In this blog, I will be documenting my journey into the quail farming business. I've been wanting to farm for some time now, and while I have a small flock of 5 chickens, chicken farming in and of itself didn't seem like a viable way to become a self-sufficient farmer with an income to support myself and my endeavors. Then I discovered quail, and learned a great deal about them, and realized I could easily build up a farm with quail that would allow my dreams to come true. Quail are ready for breeding, processing, and egg-laying in such a short time compared to chickens, and they're so small that my current plot of land, which is about 2/3 of an acre, is plenty to get started. I was in the process of trying to figure out how to get started with the quail, and last weekend (July 24/25) there was an Exotic Animal Expo down in Mobile, Alabama (about an hour and 40 minutes away), and I planned to attend to figure out how to ge...