My eleven-year-old son is an amateur naturalist. He takes his cue, literally, from The Amateur Naturalist by Gerald Durrell (from The Durrells). My friend lent him her childhood copy and he has ...

Bernard Henry is a 'guy who loves birds' and the owner of Fat Hen Farms, a Connecticut sanctuary home to more than 100 birds. He raises button quail, and before I show you how tiny their chicks are, ...

Happy Wife Acres is currently tending to around 70 quail on their farm in Fairborn. People wanting to be more self sufficient have been flocking to raising chickens. But these birds can be time and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've ever had a pet kitten or a pet puppy that's a toy breed like a miniature Poodle or Shih-Tzu, you know that being the pet ...

Over the past several decades, a number of programs to restore our quail population have been recommended. But unless we include all of the reasons for our quail loss, these programs will fail. That ...

Kenny Coogan: What is [a quail’s] egg production look like? Eric Stromberg: A coturnix quail lays around 300 eggs per year give or take, that’s gonna be dependent on a lot of different variables, just ...

Childhood visits to my grandparent’s farm served to foreshadow raising chickens of my own. Tossing seed corn, herding a mean rooster to the coop, and reaching under a hen to gather a warm egg were ...