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Seasonal Education
Seasonal changing articles. Tips tricks and best pratices for the season weather changes and items that are specific for each season.
Education Pt.28: Understanding Quail Behavior: What's normal, what's not.
Coturnix quail are honest birds. When something is off, they usually tell you—fast. The trick is learning the difference between normal quail behavior (busy, pecky, skittish, routine-driven) and red-flag behavior that signals stress, nutritional gaps, or a system problem.
Zero G Quail Farms
7 days ago4 min read
Education Pt.27: Quail or the Egg: Choosing Your Starting Point
Should you begin with live birds or hatching eggs? Here’s the Zero G take. Spring production is around the corner, and a lot of you are deciding where to start.
Zero G Quail Farms
Feb 194 min read
Behind the Scenes Pt.8: 7-Day Warning: Incubation and Season Countdown Starts Now!
You’ve got about one week to launch the season, if you haven't already started that process. That means today is not a “think about it” day—it’s a prep and verify day.
Zero G Quail Farms
Jan 274 min read
Education Pt.21: Incubation 101: Timing, Temp, and Humidity — Quick Review
This is your fast recap of the incubation fundamentals we keep circling back to across our recent posts: “Choosing the Right Incubator for Your Goals,” “Troubleshooting Failed Hatches,” “Myth of ‘Shrink-Wrapped’ Chicks,” “Holiday Hatchers,” “Starting a Breeding Program: The Zero G Way,” and “It’s the New Year: Hatching Your Breeders’ First Eggs.”
Zero G Quail Farms
Jan 213 min read
Education Pt.17: Review of Lighting 101: Designing Efficient Quail Housing Power & Light Systems
In our earlier post we covered the essentials: quail lay most steadily with about 14–16 hours of total day length (sun + supplemental light), and light only needs to be bright enough to read at quail height—not stadium-bright.
Zero G Quail Farms
Jan 74 min read
Education Pt. 16: It’s the New Year: Hatching Your Breeders’ First Eggs—and What to Look For
New year, clean slate. Your first hatch isn’t a one-off—it’s the first checkpoint of your breeding program. If you missed our guide, start with “Starting a Breeding Program: The Zero G Way.” This hatch is where your written SOP (your own Standard of Perfection) meets reality: health and body composition before color, production traits measured on a schedule, and records you’ll actually use.
Zero G Quail Farms
Jan 14 min read
Behind the Scenes Pt. 5: Zero G Year in Review
What a ride. This year we pushed hard on calm systems and steady improvements, and it showed not only in the quality of the birds we put out but the mass amounts of positive feedback we have received. We hatched thousands of Coturnix quail, tightened our breeder selection, launched our website, and proved again that slow, sustained growth beats chaos every time. The theme was simple: design for ordinary days, then let repetition do the heavy lifting.
Zero G Quail Farms
Dec 20, 20254 min read
Education Pt.12: The Launch Mindset: Setting Your Farm Goals for the New Year
The best advice we can give heading into a new year is simple: grow slowly and deliberately......
Zero G Quail Farms
Dec 12, 20253 min read
Why Winter Hatching is a Gift That Keeps Giving
Incubating Coturnix quail over the holidays can be a fantastic gift and a smart production play. For the right person, a holiday hatch means chicks grow out through late winter and are sorted, settled, and laying by spring, perfect timing for garden season and farmers’ market planning.
Zero G Quail Farms
Dec 9, 20255 min read
Education Pt. 10: Closing the Year Right: Deep Cleaning and Biosecurity for Quail Keepers.
Year-end isn’t just for inventory and wish lists—it’s the perfect window to reset your sanitation and biosecurity for quail.
Zero G Quail Farms
Dec 3, 20255 min read
Behind the Scenes Pt. 4: Thanksgiving at Zero G: Grounded, Grateful, Grit, and the Next Launch
Thanksgiving on a small farm is more than a holiday and isn’t just a date on the calendar—it’s a deep breath between seasons and it’s a pause between missions. The rush of summer markets and fall chores slows just enough for us to look around, take a breath, and notice what succeeded this year. We gather with family and friends, pass the rolls, and take stock of everything we’ve been given.....
Zero G Quail Farms
Nov 27, 20253 min read
Education Pt.8: Quail Housing Winterization: Keep Them Cozy, Not Closed In
Winter doesn’t and shouldn't stop you with Coturnix quail. You can keep quail outside all winter (even at the high elevations and temperatures here in Colorado) and keep production steady, as long as you design for what they actually do need. They want their essentials available all the time: dry footing, constant feed and water, and a place to get out of the wind while fresh air keeps moisture moving out.
Zero G Quail Farms
Nov 25, 20254 min read
Education Pt4. Cold Weather, Warm Brooder: Prepping for Winter Chicks
Raising Coturnix quail doesn’t stop when the temperature drops. One of the most unique advantages of these birds is that they can be hatched all year round — even in the heart of a Colorado winter. With the right setup and awareness, winter hatches can thrive just as easily as spring clutches. But when it comes to brooding in cold weather, preparation is everything.
Zero G Quail Farms
Nov 13, 20253 min read
Education Pt.5: Lighting for Layers: Keep Egg Production Steady.
When winter closes in, we don’t close the barn—we adjust the mission. Coturnix respond to day length, not brute lumens. Our job is to deliver a calm, predictable “sunrise-to-sunset” that tells their bodies, “keep laying,” while avoiding stress, overheating, or power waste. Treat lighting like nutrition or ventilation: measured, intentional, and boringly consistent. Decide on a program, write it down (timer settings, check points, backup plan), and fly it every day the same wa
Zero G Quail Farms
Nov 10, 20254 min read
Help Us Improve the Mission
We’d love to hear from you — and it doesn’t have to be a big formal review. If you’ve made a purchase, taken a class, or even just explored the site, your feedback helps us fine-tune the Zero G experience and keep improving what we build next. Tell us what you loved, what you’d like to see added, or where we can make things smoother — every note helps us support the community better.
Tristi and Brent Buchanan
Owners of Zero G Quail Farms, Quail Education & Compliance, Business insight, Behind the Scenes, Colorado Quail Techniques.
Guest Blog Writer: Aaron Guidroz
Owner Guidroz Family Farm, Quail Education, Business insight, sustainability practices, homestead insight and pratices.
Guest Blog Writer: Kelli Knecht
Owner Feathered Knechitons, small space sustainability, Quail information, Arts & Crafts
Guest Blog Writer: Homestead Matters
Owners Caiti and Dom, who live on a small suburban property in Western Oregon. "Basic 1850's housewife stuff, homestyle cooking, homeopathic remedies, and homesteading and gardening in small spaces."
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