Getting started raising poultry is both exciting and rewarding in many ways. If you’re a hobby farmer or a beginner, an important key to health and growth is making sure they’re being raised in the ...

In this video, I explain how I set my brooder up and transfer newly hatched coturnix quail chicks from the incubator to the brooder.

It all started with a YouTube video and a child who wanted to be Gerald Durrell. One moment we were saying “maybe” to hatching pet quail eggs, and the next we were sneaking an incubator into the loft.

It’s quiet at Chad Cottrell’s home outside of Benton City, Washington, but it used to be loud. In this fenced-in yard, a couple roosters and a baker's dozen of free range chickens scratch. “At one ...