TeaTime Acres

10/23/2025

We don't have anyone to take in order to vend this expo this time, but we are excited to see it return! We are going to try to at least attend and see who and what will be there!

Paris Exotic Pet Expo
517 Royal Oak Dr, Paris, TN 38242
Inside event will happen rain or shine.
Expo open to Birds, Snakes, Lizards, Plants, Small Mammals, and related items.

10/23/2025

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Baby (Chick) and the other quail are 4 weeks old which means we know what s*x everyone is! Baby (Chick) is a 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 GIRL!! We have a lucky flock of 4 hens and one rooster! Baby Girl was named by our son who "hatched her himself", but our other 3 girls and our Roo need names! Pictures are of Baby Girl, one of the other hens, and our very unwilling roo. You can see the difference between Baby Girl's Pansy/Rotkopf color, and the Wild/Brown/Pharaoh color! You can also see the barred feathers on the girls' chests and our Roo's handsome solid chest. These feathers differences are what allow me to s*x them now rather than waiting until the roo crows or until they mature in two weeks and vent s*x them. We are also getting ready for our first eggs in the coming weeks!

10/01/2025

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'Chick' is officially one week old, and just look at that feather development compared to the chick that is 2 days younger! These two are both Jumbo Coturnix quail, but 'chick' is a Pansy/Rotkopf colored chick whereas the other babies are all Pharaoh/Wild type colored

09/27/2025

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So a bitter sweet update on the quail. Eggs 2 & 3 didn't make it. Egg 2 was breech in its shell (head in pointy end not round) and egg 3 had a deformity. So Chick was the only one to hatch. That said, after frantic searching wherever we could possibly find them, we just got home with 4 friends for Chick! They happen to also be Jumbo Coturnix, just the standard Pharaoh color (wild type)

09/24/2025

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Hello baby!! Day 18 and one of the three has hatched out!

09/20/2025

Well quail eggs went into lockdown. Technically they should go in tomorrow, but we are going to be quite busy literally all day so I went ahead and did it tonight......this. this is not what I was hoping for. 3 in lockdown. Only 6 total had any type of development in them. These 3, one that looked like it stopped around day 5, and two that looked like they stopped around day 2. based on the symptoms of detached air cells, cracked eggs upon arrival, and almost no development of the eggs it would seem the problem was that the eggs were dropped and/or mishandled during shipping, and the trauma caused to the eggs in shipping was too severe to heal during the 24hr rest period before they went into the incubator. We will be trying again though as soon as we are able, but for now, any suggestions for these pretty little shells?

09/15/2025

Our hearts shattered tonight. Time slipped from me. I hadn't paid attention to his age, and hadn't realized just how old he had actually gotten. Our boy, the face of our rabbitry, loved by everyone who ever met him, thrived for his public's love, and always put smiles on everyone's faces the second they saw him. Duncan said goodbye tonight. Born in April 2020, he gave us 5 fantastic years full of so much fun. Continental giants have a shorter lifespan of 4-6yrs due to their size. From being our mascot at the Nashville Exotic Pet Expo thanks you for 40 years and other mascots, teaching children through our TeaTime Critter Connections, to just being my snuggle bun. We had so much fun. I didn't realize we had already made it to his golden years. Thank you Duncan. Thank you for the fun. Thank you for what you've taught me. Thank you for the connections you helped make. Goodbye big boy, I already miss you. You will be missed by all those whose hearts you've touched too.

09/05/2025

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✨✨Our first round of Quail eggs are here!!✨✨
We just received our Jumbo Coturnix Pansy/Rotkopf eggs from Hideaway Hatchery out of Texas! I am going to film a start to finish hatching journey for our YouTube channel so watch for that in about 20 days!! I love the way these eggs were packaged. They have SO much padding. Unfortunately eggs can still be damaged during shipping no matter how well they get packed. 5 out of our 18 eggs did get cracked in the USPS system. One of the eggs did receive too much damage to put in the incubator, so it was fed to one of our other critters. We did also have 4 others that have internal cracks, but I have marked them and will monitor them closely. If their internal lining was not damaged then they still have a chance to hatch, but it's impossible to tell if they are damaged or not without cracking open the eggs, so we are just going to keep our fingers crossed. We also got a surprise gift from the Hatchery! They sent us an adorable little dream catcher with quail feathers and a quail egg centerpiece!

08/24/2025

✨ Quail additions excitement ✨
So we are getting a bit excited out here! Or should I say Egg-cited! We have started progress on adding quail to the farm! We have picked out our breed, and two specific variations of them! We have also decided we will be pulling apart some of our old and unused rabbit hutches to up-cycle into Quail coops to save on materials! My husband and I have figured out about when we are going to put the coop construction part of our quail addition plans into play, but today the first part of our quail addition plans has arrived!!! We got our Quail incubator in!!! I'm currently learning how to operate it so that I am fully prepared when we are ready to place our hatching egg order. So far the temps are holding steady and I'm actively learning how to manipulate the humidity with it. Our little man is SUPER excited to hatch some quail, because he just LOVES "his" baby birds, and has been fully involved in helping me get the incubator ready. The quail addition is also actually moving along faster than originally expected too; so there is a decent chance we could actually start raising our birds soon, and start offering quail eggs and chicks whenever our breeder flocks start laying. This could potentially be as early as October, but will depend on their laying season too since we are going to let them have outdoor coops! That said we are likely going to work our quail products through a pre-order type system because we are otherwise going to just eat all the yummy eggs, lol

08/09/2025

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Meet our 3 newest members!! These three are 3 week old Chocolate Swedish ducklings! Our little man paid their breeder for them all by himself even! (with some borrowed cash from Grandma) The one with the most yellow on its head has already been named Cheerio by our son. We are still awaiting his names for the other two

08/05/2025

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We've had a whole lot going on recently! So the rabbits are still under observation to make sure the earmites are gone. My husband hit a deer recently, and it dented up the front bumper and grill, but luckily didn't do any real damage and now we have several pounds of venison to eat. We unfortunately have lost our young buck Flint. The Does are in heat and based off how suddenly he passed, along with other evidence we found, that Gael had likely started a rut fight with Flint and caused Flint internal bleeding which led to his passing within the short period between water checks and poultry feeding. That same afternoon though one of our hens hatched out 3 chicks with our old rooster Kuzco! We've also had a duck trying to hatch some eggs. She unfortunately lost her entire first clutch to a snake, but today she hatched out 7 ducklings!! We are also making some plans to add honey bees and quail to the farm in the spring! We are also working on identifying all the wild herbs growing naturally here by season so that hopefully we can start creating dried herbal treat bunches to sell soon!

07/11/2025

❗❗ Our rabbitry is temporarily closed and remaining babies are going to be temporarily held back as we treat everyone for earmites!! We suspect the mites were introduced by our latest pack of hay as everyone has the same amount of earmites in their ears. We apologize for any inconveniences this brings, but we should be back up soon. We are still open to discuss baby adoptions, just no one will leave until after the earmites are cleared! ❗❗