Four Wolf Moon Farm

08/27/2026

I have a holdback breeding quintet of pearl coturnix I'm ready to let go. Four pearl hens and their pearl husband.

One caveat - you'll need to have them in an enclosure with the water system on the ground. The reason why I decided not to keep them is because one of the hens had wry neck as a chick, and she healed out of it but some days, off and on, her neck extension is limited. I use water ni***es that are hung at their shoulder height and I'm not 100% sure she can consistently raise her head to reach them, and I do not want her to suffer otherwise.

Otherwise, they are all about 12 weeks old, laying eggs, ready to go.

Send me a message if you have any questions or want these ladies and their husband. Pictures available, but I'm lazy and I assume you know what a pearl quail looks like!

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08/26/2026

Breaking out my old work horses! The Hovabator Genesis. I used these for years before I bought the Hatching Time incubators. They always worked great, I just needed something with more capacity.

Step 1: deep clean HT incubators and remove hard water build ups

Step 2: test hatch batches in both incubator models to see if there’s a difference between the two of them in regards to chicks reaching full development and not hatching/dying

Step 3: once I figure it out, hatch a bunch more chicks!!

08/26/2026

What do you do when your fertility rate is great but your hatch rate sucks? Somehow most of my chicks are dying in the shell on or near hatch day. This is the second hatch I’ve noticed this happen to.

All parameters are good. I have two calibrated Govees in both units. I use Hatching Time CT model cabinet incubators. Parent stock are all healthy and thriving.

Everything is the same but the babies aren’t getting out of their shell. The last thing I can find on Google is air flow and I’ll be honest I can’t remember the last time I cleaned out the fans in my incubators.

So I’m going to spend some time deep cleaning my incubators, there’s also some hard water deposits on some of the equipment from before I started using distilled water only.

It’s so frustrating having all these fully developed chicks ready to hit the ground running, and they just die instead. I feel powerless.

08/25/2026

We are processing chickens on Friday, 28 August at our farm. We will be accepting donations of poultry til Thursday, 27 August at dark. Please fill out the livestock drop off form at https://www.happywifeacres.com/livestock-drop-off-form/
We will also offer observation of processing the chickens on Friday We will start at 9am. Most of the knowledge of chicken processing will be achieved by 12, so you don't have to stay til the end. Please fill out the form https://www.happywifeacres.com/request-to-observe-animal-processing/

08/25/2026

Salmonella is a hoax

08/24/2026

Here’s my very first shipped eggs!!! I’m so happy I’ve got to this point. I’ve jumped through all the legal hoops to get here, did my testing and paid my dues to be able to ship quality fertile quail eggs and here’s my very first one I’ll be sending out tomorrow morning!

I custom cut the foam to cut shipping costs so I dont have to pass those costs on to my customers and keep prices reasonably low. These premade foam shippers cost somewhere around $6-$10 PER BOX! Custom cutting can save a lot of money. Tedious, but it’s worth it.

Each pad is cut to size to the interior dimensions of the appropriate sized box, and you can’t see it in my pictures but I cut foam padding for the tops and bottoms of the egg holes as well so they are completely covered and protected. The only thing that could break this box is if it’s completely smashed or pierced by something really heavy. (FYI according to my post office clerk, all the “fragile” and “hatching egg” stickers on the exterior mean nothing)

I still need testers for bantam eggs and large fowl eggs - if you missed my post I am offering FREE HATCHING EGGS all you do is pay for USPS shipping cost - $21.50. Literally free eggs for however many fit in the foam safely.

All you have to do is give me feedback on how they arrived and if they show up ruined and busted I will refund the shipping fees.

08/23/2026

Part 4 of WHY CANT YOU JUST ALL GET ALONG?! 😡 Bees robbing each other!

Final part for the day, I’m done, I have other stuff to doooooooo.

08/23/2026

Hey! Part 3 of oh sh*t oh f*ck 😂

08/23/2026

A question we hear every day: Robbing or orientation flights?

I guess this is now part 2 of a series. 🥲

Oopsies. Possible laying worker hive getting robbed now after Formic Pro, meh.

Didn’t wanna spend all day doing bee stuff and making videos and yet here we are! The joys of beekeeping.

08/23/2026

A quickie from the apiary today. Formic Pro, a laying worker, and ants, oh my!