SkillHatch Mendel
Small Footprint, Big Return
A single quail can lay over 300 eggs a year from a space barely bigger than a shoebox.
Mendel's third animal: quail take up almost no room and are nearly silent, but one hen can out-lay almost anything else on the homestead. Small space, big return — same rule as the chickens and the rabbits, just scaled all the way down.
About Hatch Mendel
Got chickens for the eggs, then just never stopped. Knows more about chicken behavior than most vets do, but he'd never call it expertise — to him it's just paying real attention to something he genuinely likes. The rabbits happened next. The goat situation is, by his own account, still ongoing.