Green Fence Farm QUAIL EGGS by MAIL

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Our Coturnix quail (a Japanese breed raised domestically in the United States since colonial times and in Japan since forever) have grown from fuzzy peeping refrigerator magnets (at least that's what they looked like to me) into egg producing machines, and we are ready to offer the fruits of their labor to you.

The eggs are tiny, about an inch long, and a beautiful speckled brown on a beige background. They are wonderful for crafts or just boiling up and looking at, but even better for eating. Hard boiled (just four minutes), they make a great snack for toddlers, a charming addition to a salad composee, or a quick, healthy protein shot for the family athlete. Chefs in all the cool places (we hear, not that we've been there) are using them soft boiled on salads or pickled in hugely overpriced appetizers. And now you ca try them at home.

Though not raised free range – they fly, you see, and are so long domesticated that their normal flight path takes them right into the mouth of the nearest predator – but they are in open air cages with plenty of water and healthy feed. No hormones, no antibiotics, and all the flies they can eat (I wish they could eat a few more, frankly).

We pack our eggs for shipping carefully, even obsessively and send them priority mail for the prices below:

One dozen quail eggs: $6, shipping $5

Two dozen quail eggs: $12, shipping $5

Three dozen quail eggs: $16, shipping $9

50 quail eggs: $20, shipping $9

Our eggs are fertilized, and we hope, fertile. We are incubating our first batch now and will post the hatch rate when we know it. We also offer our eggs for hatching at the prices above with a surcharge of $3/dozen. If you want your eggs for hatching, do indicate that, and we will collect them and send them to you as close as we can to when they were laid. We will only ship hatching eggs on Mondays and Tuesdays, to make sure they don't sit in a post office over a weekend. Unfortunately, we can't guarantee a hatch rate – not only because we aren't sure what it is yet, but also because we can't trust the USPS to treat the eggs well, or that you know what your doing, hatchingwise (we sure don't, why should you?).

Email us if you want some eggs for eating or hatching (and let us know which), and we'll invoice you through Pay Pal (you can pay securely through them with a credit card even if you aren't a member) or tell you where to send a check (heck, we'll divulge that information even if you don't want eggs, but just want to make a contribution – we do not object to random acts of financial kindness aimed our way).