Wynn Quail Farm

08/27/2022

Just put in an order for hatching eggs from Southwest Gamebirds. Time to get my flock built back up and diversified.

08/24/2022

Not one egg hatched. This is a first.

07/28/2022

NR360 set and ready to go. 12 standard coturnix eggs and 10 celadon coturnix eggs. Babies incoming 😁

03/23/2022

03/17/2022

So this was not at all intentional. But there are at least two celadon layers in my latest hatch!

02/05/2022

Pretzel has gone broody! She's collected everyone's eggs in the corner, plucked her belly feathers off, and has been chasing the other hens away. Gonna let her try to hatch some babies!

02/03/2022

Babies! They're doing great. Still got 24 of em. This batch is extremely quiet so I'm anticipating a large number of females, which is always a plus.

01/29/2022

Moved my 4-week-olds into the grow-out zone. Lots of incredible color this time around. I'll be sure to get individual pics soon.

01/28/2022

I guess it's time to hard boil some eggs 🤷🏻‍♂️ 34 dozen just in the top drawer in my fridge 🥴

01/22/2022

This little one isn't doing well. It's been the smallest since they hatched and I've suspected for a bit now that it'd be a failure to thrive. Giving it some warmth and love before I cull. 24 babies will turn 3 weeks old on Monday.

01/07/2022

Alright, final number is 25 babies out of 34 eggs set.

Originally had 26 that hatched but one drowned 😬 (a first for me but extremely common in baby quail).

Of the eggs that didn't hatch, 3 pipped but didn't make it out and 5 never developed and so weren't fertilized.

And of course the one that drowned was one of my Tibetan tuxes 🙃 unhappy about that.

The hen in the pic is my girl Ganache. I raised her from an egg and now she has several chicks of her own (only 3-4 of the ones pictured here). I always put her in with the babies for the first 5 days or so because she's so tolerant of them. 💜

01/05/2022

The quail room! Raising quail indoors is super easy and makes for very happy, productive birds 😁

01/05/2022

Hard to photograph. But we've had some good progress! Impossible to count but I think there are fewer than 5 eggs left to hatch.

They are safe in the incubator for up to 48 hours after hatching. So tomorrow afternoon is probably when I'll put them in the brooder.

01/04/2022

First baby out is always exciting. Obviously I'll have to wait till it dries to know for sure but I'm fairly certain this is a Tibetan, based on its dark coloring and the egg it came out of.

I'm working on identifying exactly which birds lay which eggs, and this one came out of an egg laid by Raisin, my Tibetan based Grau Fee hen. She's in with Habanero, my Rosetta roo. So thats why I'm thinking Tibetan. Maybe a Grau Fee too, though.

01/03/2022

34 eggs have been in the incubator and today is day 15. I see many that have pipped. Cross your fingers!

01/02/2022

I started keeping Quail on June 10th, 2021 and got my first egg July 22nd.

Today, January 2, 2022, I will receive my 2,000th egg.

12/25/2021

Sitting on the couch putting eggs into cartons and...🥚❤️

11/27/2021

66 eggs peeled and in the pickling jar. I just made up the pickling recipe/spice quantities so we'll see what happens! Two weeks until deliciousness.

11/21/2021

This is what two weeks' worth of eggs looks like in a standard men's dress shoe box.

Came out to 16 dozen eggs not including however many the ferrets took and the two I had to toss that were cracked.

11/18/2021

Ten little ones made it out of the egg. These guys are destined for someone else's home once they've grown a little. Beautiful colors 💚

11/16/2021

Good morning new babies!!!!

11/11/2021

My three currently active roos. The first is Habanero, he's a sparkly Rosetta. Then it's Lime, I think he's a hetero silver. And lastly Nacho, the standard Pharaoh. Habanero and Lime are 11 weeks old, Nacho is somewhere around 22 weeks. Each of them watches over a covey of 5 hens.

11/08/2021

Taking some pics tonight while the girls are out.

This is Crackerjack, one of my laying hens. I am pretty sure she's a Gold? She's from Myshire Farm Quality Quail shipped eggs. 21 weeks old.

10/31/2021

Started a big hatch today for a client. Let's see how we do!