Quail Story

Quail Story Quail breeder located on the central coast NSW

It’s moulting season, that means feathers everywhere and scruffy looking Quail.During this time its really important to ...
02/05/2025

It’s moulting season, that means feathers everywhere and scruffy looking Quail.

During this time its really important to keep their bedding fresh and check feet, as loose feathers can become tangled around toes. This can lead to bumble foot or a loss of circulation to their feet/toes.

If you are doing a deep litter bedding you can just add more bedding on top of the feathers, enough to cover them and they will break down.

Some of the feathers can be nice to collect for crafts, but mostly you’ll just find the fluffy insulating feathers dropping.

27/03/2025

This is likely the last hatching for the season. 😍

What better way to celebrate Easter than with quail eggs? These beautiful little eggs are so tasty and my children love ...
26/03/2025

What better way to celebrate Easter than with quail eggs? These beautiful little eggs are so tasty and my children love quail egg french toast. But the eggs have to make it past my hungry pup who also love a little snack!

Each hen has a unique stamp style, imprinting each egg that they lay. These beautiful eggs haver the same printing pattern, and its a new one, which means I have a hen that has just started to lay 😍

Young quail available, some are feather s*xable some are presumed female and some are unknown. I know I have at least tw...
25/03/2025

Young quail available, some are feather s*xable some are presumed female and some are unknown. I know I have at least two dilute pharaoh males ready for breeding if you are looking to add some interesting tones to your flock.

I’ve just had a big refresh of my grow put pen, adding lots of different plants and bedding all sourced from my garden. Tiger grass is fun to hide in amoungst creating new hidden spaces, lavendar adds a lovely arouma and creates a calming effect, wormwood is great for reducing parasites, bamboo lead litter create a beautiful bedding and lastly some overgrown grass also adds to thee bedding and comes with lots of bugs to peck at, keeping an enriched environment helps keep quail healthy and happy.

06/03/2025

Let me introduce you to the newest member of my coop, Kylie. We love Kylie, she has been around for years… but Kylie has a suspiciously large belly and I seem to be missing one or two quail 🤔 Kylie has been told that she is welcome in the garden 🪴 but not in the coop 😑

Yesterday was a big day here at Quail Story… we had babies hatch🐣, and said goodbye to at least one quail 😭This hatch wa...
05/03/2025

Yesterday was a big day here at Quail Story… we had babies hatch🐣, and said goodbye to at least one quail 😭

This hatch was just a small one, of 10. It’s much more manageable having smaller hatches, but at the same time I get less hens. It looks like I have a couple of dilutes but mostly solid, non-dilute colours. Which is great because I still have a pen full of dilute birds that I’m waiting to s*x.

Can you believe these two are from the hatching? The size difference is astonishing.The bird on the right is typical of ...
13/02/2025

Can you believe these two are from the hatching? The size difference is astonishing.

The bird on the right is typical of the others that hatched at the same time, however the little white bird is the smallest and only one of the same size.

I suspect it may be a double dilute rather than a true white…

Getting the brooder set up:Currently I’m using a bird cage with wire frame. There are a couple of gaps where babies coul...
31/01/2025

Getting the brooder set up:

Currently I’m using a bird cage with wire frame. There are a couple of gaps where babies could get stuck so we have filled those with cloth. The base is also too wide and they would fall through so I’ve filled the bottom tray with equine pine pellets.

These pellets are compressed wood shavings that swell and open when exposed to moisture. Once I move the babies out I can wet and reuse these pellets in either my worm farm, garden bed or if they aren’t too poopy in one of the bigger quail pens.

Using the pellets means the babies won’t fall through the wire base and any moisture will be absorbed.

I have their heat plate over a small section of synthetic turf, it has good grip and allows them to have something solid to sleep on, without having to worry about anything accidentally coming up and touching the heat plate that shouldn’t.

Their feed is spread out on top of paper towel to make it easy for them in their first few days. As soon as they were placed in they started eating which was a really good sign. The paper towel is perfect for the worm farm after it has been used for a day or two.

Their water container has rocks inside it so they can’t accidentally drown by falling in and not being able to get out. In addition have larger rocks next to it allowing the tiny babies to reach the water more easily.

I’m aiming to create a safe, warm, non-slip environment that can be composted to create beautiful soil for my garden. Keeping quail is so wholesome ☺️

31/01/2025

The babies are settling in to the brooder!

Sound up for chirps 😍

The babies have all hatched now, five eggs failed to develop so that should mean I have 24 babies 😍Because every time my...
30/01/2025

The babies have all hatched now, five eggs failed to develop so that should mean I have 24 babies 😍

Because every time my eggs hatch the weather turns bad 🙄 I will set up an inside brooder for them. My children loved the inside brooder last hatch, because the excitement of seeing and hearing the babies is just so fulfilling for them.

I did have to assist one baby to hatch this morning. My pup said I needed to come check on them and we found one who was unable to complete the hatch process. They would have died without intervention as the membrane was dry.

When assisting with a hatch it’s vital to ensure the chick actually needs it. If the membrane is moist leave it, if it’s dry you can proceed very slowly. The first thing we need to assess is if there is still blood that needs to be absorbed by the chick.

Taking away a small amount of shell should allow you to see if blood is still present in the thin tissue sounding the chick. If there is blood then the chick is not ready to hatch and would likely die if assisted.

If no blood is present then I moisten the membrane and with sharp scissors cut little bits of shell. It’s a slow process, and you have to take care not to cut the chick. Remove as much shell as is needed to assist the chick taking breaks to allow them the opportunity to push their way out.

Keeping them moist will help to prevent parts of the membrane sticking to them. Occassionly there might be a small bit that gets stuck to their feathers, if it doesn’t come off with moisture and it’s not preventing them from moving then you can leave it and try to trim it away when their feathers have fluffed up.

Babies are hatching! I think I counted 17 so far.I do have some young adults that are ready for new homes. Mostly males ...
30/01/2025

Babies are hatching! I think I counted 17 so far.

I do have some young adults that are ready for new homes. Mostly males perfect for breeding!

I have a few confirmed roosters if you are looking for a single male to add to your flock send me a PMPharaoh base, some...
28/01/2025

I have a few confirmed roosters if you are looking for a single male to add to your flock send me a PM

Pharaoh base, some dilutes

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Gosford, NSW
2250

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