These days, you don’t need to live on a farm to raise chickens. Backyard chickens have become pretty popular but caring for these quirky pets usually involves something of a learning curve — in ...

Alwyn Wils, a 45-year-old Dutch man, has been making news since he published a video of his project. After buying a 12-pack of supermarket quail eggs, he plopped them all in an incubator out of ...

Two siblings hatched 12 chicks from a box of quail eggs from their local Marks & Spencer shop. Ray Moorhead, seven, and his sister Pearl, four, decided to experiment with a box of 24 by putting the ...

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

The clock is flashing 6.30 on a Saturday morning and I’m woken by a delicate, but insistent, tweeting. For 20 minutes I do my best to ignore it, reminding myself that spring has sprung and it’s ...

Rose is one lucky quail. Most of her family -- indeed, probably all, have ended up on dinner plates, either boiled, or sunny-side up. But when Chaldon, England supermarket customer Mandy Clayton put ...

A man who incubated a box of twelve supermarket quail eggs for a month was stunned to discover that one actually hatched. Adorable Albert the quail was bought at a supermarket in Haarlem, Netherlands, ...

A brother and sister who incubated a box of Marks & Spencer quail eggs can’t believe their cluck after ending up with 12 chicks. Mum Emily Moorhead warned Ray, seven, and Pearl, four, they were ...

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