Want fresh eggs every day from a bird that fits in your hand? Coturnix quail start laying at six
weeks, produce 250-300 eggs per year, and need less than two square feet of space per bird. No
crowing. No permits in most areas. Twenty minutes of daily care.
Inside you’ll learn exactly how to set up your first pen (with specific dimensions and materials),
which feed produces the most eggs, how to incubate and hatch your own chicks, how to sex your flock at
four weeks, and how to process meat birds humanely. Every chapter includes the specific mistakes that
kill birds or tank egg production — and how to avoid them.
What’s covered: housing design (wire cages, hutches, and mobile tractors), feeding and nutrition with
exact protein percentages, incubation science (temperature, humidity, turning schedules), brooding
chicks through the critical first six weeks, egg production optimization, meat processing, flock
health and disease prevention, predator protection, breeding and color genetics, and seasonal
management for every climate.
Written by a small-scale homesteader who keeps quail, goats, and a kitchen garden on two acres in
Appalachian Virginia. These are the techniques that produce a basket of eggs every week and a batch of
meat birds every quarter — on a twenty-minute daily time budget.
