Freeloaders No More

The people at work like to ask me how my quail are doing.  I mean, I don't have kids so what else are they going to ask about?  So, my boss asks me how the quail are doing.  I say they are still on strike.  He says maybe they are molting.  I say do quails molt?  He doesn't know.  Finally, yesterday, I remembered to look up "do quails molt".  And the answer from backyardchickens.com, YES.  And it lasts for around 4 weeks.  Ok, so it usually happens in the Fall but here in AZ we lack seasons, especially this year.

I was thinking that I haven't seen an egg in around 4 weeks and I go out to feed the quail.  Guess what I saw?  An EGG!

Yay!  I can go back to my tradition of collecting an egg a day and having a pan full of tiny fried eggs on Saturday.  How fun!  One of these days I'm going to order some hatching eggs so that I get more quail and lots of eggs.  I don't know which gets higher priority, hatching more quail or buying goldfish for my aquaponics project.  Maybe I'll ask for both for my birthday next month.  12 Quail hatching eggs $10.  6 goldfish $3.  Affordable and fun!