Stone Soup Gardens
  • Home
  • Our Services
    • Community-Based Projects
    • Residential Landscaping
    • Rain Gardens
    • Whole Systems Water Design
    • Education
  • Portfolio
    • Gardens
    • Stone Work
    • Woodwork
    • Cisterns & Water Systems
    • Community Projects
    • Community Events
  • RainWise
  • About
  • Contact
  • Blog

Stone Soup Gardens Blog ​

We have quails!!  Almost....  

3/18/2013

 
Picture
Ever since my food justice delegation to Palestine, I have wanted quails.  While on my trip, we visited a joint Palestinian/Israeli Collective Farm that had quails, doves, and chickens.  They were so cute and small!  Recently, after much success with our urban chicken cooperative, I was able to convince my wife, Emma, that we should get quail eggs!   

With the fabulous help of Christy, from the Seattle Farm Coop, we are now officially are on our way!  Christy and her son took us on a tour of their own quail operation, which gave us some great insight into what to look forward to.  We rented a styrofoam incubator from Seattle Farm Coop, which we have now updated with a fan to help maintain temperature and to aid in air circulation throughout the incubator.  We are very excited that in 17 days we should have our own flock of quail for eggs, meat, and cuddling enjoyment! 

We now have 55 diverse eggs from Christy, her neighbor, and a breeder in Redmond.  We are expecting a 50% hatching rate, which means that in two weeks, we should hopefully have a bustling brood of cooing quails! In the meantime, we'll be turning our eggs, monitoring the temperature and humidity, and reading bedtime stories to our (hopefully) thirty-some thumb sized brood! 
Picture
In the spirit of science, we are also trying some cross-species connections with our chicken Shipoopi. Her desire to raise chicks of her own go beyond her ability, because even though there are no fertile eggs, she will continue to sit, even on an empty nest, for weeks on end.  It is our hope that she will be able to hatch and accept these quail babies as her own, and not eat them!  Stay tuned for updates....  
    This is how Stone Soup Gardens rolls - check out our blog for current, upcoming, and past projects, events, and other super cool stuff worth mentioning.
    ​

    Archives
    ​

    November 2021
    March 2021
    March 2020
    February 2019
    January 2019
    October 2018
    July 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013

    Categories

    All
    Arbor
    Bag Monsters
    Beacon Food Forest
    Bees
    Bioremediation
    Carpentry
    Chicken Coops
    Chicken Coop Tour
    Chickens
    Cistern
    Classes
    Community
    Community P Patch
    Community P-Patch
    Design
    Edible Plants
    Education
    Fences
    Fremont Solstice Parade
    Greywater
    Hardscaping
    Harvest Fair
    Hatching Eggs
    Hiring
    Hugelcultur Beds
    Instagram
    Irrigation
    Job Posting
    Media
    Mushrooms
    Native Plants
    Omculture
    Patio Installation
    Permaculture
    Plastic Whale
    Pollinator Pathways
    Quail
    Quail Egg Hatching
    Rain Garden Install
    Raised Bed
    Recycled Costumes
    Seattle Tilth
    Sensory Garden
    Swale
    Topiary
    Treehouse
    Urban Farming
    Volunteer
    Weather
    Yard Party
    Zero Waste Seattle

    RSS Feed

Stone Soup Gardens; licensed, bonded & insured 
Contact Us: GardenerGnome@gmail.com -or- (206) 661-7628


  • Home
  • Our Services
    • Community-Based Projects
    • Residential Landscaping
    • Rain Gardens
    • Whole Systems Water Design
    • Education
  • Portfolio
    • Gardens
    • Stone Work
    • Woodwork
    • Cisterns & Water Systems
    • Community Projects
    • Community Events
  • RainWise
  • About
  • Contact
  • Blog