• Coturnix Quail Cost Analysis for Beginners

    Honestly, after three weeks of keeping quail, I was regretting bringing them home. I thought I would be done with quail after this flock dies off. It might even be sooner if I were able to pass them off. They weren’t laying, they were messy, and the grow-out pen I was using was impossible to clean. Then Joe built a hutch that is easy to access and clean out and gives the birds much more room. It even has a…

  • Meet the Coturnix Quail

    Here at Love Sown Garden (I feel a little ridiculous naming my garden), there is a new flock of feathered friends. I went to the monthly flock swap at The Urban Chicken and came home with six young quail. Why? They were there, and I had a grow-out pen that could comfortably hold them. I honestly had no intention of getting into another kind of animal, but some of my friends have been talking up the ease of raising quail…