Avian Aqua Miser: Automatic, poop-free chicken waterers

Quail waterer and business

Automatic quail waterer

"I got started a year and a half ago with a stray quail, and it got out of hand from there," Steve Blair explained when I asked him about his quail hatchery business.  Clover Quail Farm, located outside Clover, South Carolina, sells quail eggs for eating and for hatching, as well as day old chicks.

Steve emailed me the photo at the top of the page, showing his two day old quail chicks drinking out of one of our homemade chicken waterers.  He was very self-affacing when I asked him if I could post about his business on this blog.  "Sure I would appreciate any promotional exposure," he wrote, "However I am just a small backyard farm."

Those of you who love your poultry and are looking for a way to get your significant other off your back about feed costs might consider trying out Steve's business model.  A breeding pair of an interesting chicken variety combined with a broody hen may be all you need to bring in a little extra "egg money."



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