#cortunix

[cnfarmstead]

One of my favorite animals on the farm are the quail! I have been wanting quail for a long time so I first bought a few jumbo cortunix quail then jumped in to buying 100 bobwhites!!!

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

One of my quail must have run out of ink.

[ID: a hand holds two small eggs, one is heavily spotted with brown the other has only tiny tiny speckles of brown]

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

Sunny-side-up eggs on a cracker.  Can you tell I'm having fun with these? [ID: three tiny sunny-side-up eggs sprinkled with pepper are each sitting on a round cracker]

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

They’re so small!

[ID: 1. A hand holds three small off-white eggs with brown spots and speckles. 2. The three eggs sit in an egg carton next to a typical grocery store chicken egg.  The small eggs are approximately one fifth the size of the chicken egg]

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

One of the quail laid an egg without a shell.  It's so weird to have a tiny bag of egg.  Nothing's wrong with the bird, frequently weird things happen when they're starting to lay. [ID: a hand holds an egg without a shell.  The membrane that’s normally attached to the shell holds the egg together without leaking]

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

Surprise breakfast for F! Next time I'll cut the holes even smaller, quail eggs are tiny. (or, more likely, I’ll use 2-3 eggs)

[ID: two bulls-eyes (fried egg cooked in the center of a piece of bread) on a plate, the eggs don’t reach all of the edges of the hole]

[on-my-way-to-the-woods]

Meet Nugget and Nugget's first egg!

We've gotten cortunix quail.  They're supposed to have a better feed-to-egg conversion rate than chickens.  Plus, they're quiet and smaller so it's much less likely for the neighbors to notice/care.  They sound more like wild birds.

I'm just so excited to have fresh eggs again!

[ID: 1. A hand holds a hand-sized, chicken-like, white bird.  2. A hand holds a small off-white egg with brown spots and speckles.]