• Urban Homesteading

    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 and how wonderful their eggs are. After I brought the first six quail home, my quail friend looked at my pictures and determined that I had three males and three…