Our first quail eggs

So You Want Baby Quail So you want to add baby quail to your homestead. But have you really thought about it? Because I’d thought about it, but definitely not long enough. I was like they are just tiny chickens, right? Well wrong. The group I bought from eBay had an impressive 80+% hatching rate. I was so excited when I had all those little fluff balls running around — make sure you watch the videos, it’s a very busy time! But don’t prepare for them like you would chicks. These guys are...

We bought our Harvest Right freeze dryer in 2022, back when we had eggs stashed everywhere and they were going bad faster than we could eat or give them away. So we did the sensible thing and bought a freeze dryer. Fast forward a few years, and it's seen a lot more than eggs — here's my recent run with refried beans and mini burritos leftover from my grandmother's funeral service."