Since we started keeping hens, we’ve made two fantastic friends – Steven and Matt – who have kept us right and supplied us with hatching eggs, hens and bucketloads of advice and it’s been marvellous having that support. A few weeks ago I mentioned that I was thinking about keeping quail and Steven dropped me a message a few days later to say he’d picked me up a trio from a poultry auction he’d attended that weekend. What a star! Steven is also a gifted glassworker and I’m hoping to get some of his pieces from him soon to showcase on the site. I will keep you posted with this!

Right now, they’re in an indoor rabbit hutch as I’m waiting for their new house to arrive. As a result the photo isn’t great but hopefully enough that you can see them. They are so cute! Only about the size of my clenched fist

They’d only been home for an hour when I got this -

I’m a little daunted though after hearing that one quail egg is 101% of your recommended daily allowance of cholesterol! Wow!

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