11/06/2026
🌿 A Little About Our Updated Pricing & What’s New at Bristlecone Pine Homestead 🐦
As we continue to grow and improve our homestead, we’ve taken a closer look at the costs involved in raising our birds and maintaining the quality of care we strive to provide. With that, we’ve made some adjustments to our pricing.
We want to be transparent about why.
Raising quail is a daily commitment, and there is so much more involved than simply providing food and water. Every single day, we spend 1–2 hours caring for our flocks—filling waters and feeders, changing bedding, maintaining sand baths, cleaning, monitoring our birds, and making sure everyone is healthy and thriving.
There are also the ongoing costs of electricity, incubation, brooding, heating, bedding, supplies, and the substantial investment in quality non-GMO and organic feeds. Space, equipment, and the time required to properly raise and maintain our breeding lines all add up.
We also put a tremendous amount of time and care into selective breeding, working toward healthier, stronger generations while preserving and improving some of the more uncommon and harder-to-find color varieties.
Our previous pricing was more in line with conventional-feed operations, and it simply wasn’t reflecting the actual costs and work involved in what we do. We want to continue offering specialty birds and quality genetics without operating at a loss.
What makes Bristlecone Pine Homestead different?
🐦 We raise our own birds locally. We do not ship birds, and we do not bring in shipped birds to resell.
🌱 We prioritize quality non-GMO and organic feeding programs.
🧬 We invest in selective breeding, rare color varieties, and maintaining quality breeding lines.
🛡️ We follow a strict biosecurity protocol to help protect the health and well-being of our flocks.
❤️ We take pride in knowing where our birds come from and how they are raised.
We Are Also Expanding What We Offer!
We are excited to offer additional services for our local quail community:
* Special Orders: Looking for a particular variety or color? We can work with you to raise a specific variety or maintain a pure line for you to eventually raise and breed yourself.
* Incubation Services: Want to hatch your own chicks but don’t have the time, equipment, or desire to manage the incubation process? Let us do the work for you!
* Grow-Out Services: Need chicks raised to a certain age before bringing them home? We can help with that, too.
Our goal is to make specialty quail and quality genetics more accessible to our local community, even if you aren’t equipped to handle every stage of the process yourself.
And Don’t Worry—We Still LOVE Offering Deals!
We will continue to offer discounts whenever we have extra birds that need new homes. We also plan to offer seasonal sales to celebrate the first day of each season:
🌸 First Day of Spring
☀️ First Day of Summer
🍂 First Day of Fall
❄️ First Day of Winter
These seasonal specials will be a great opportunity to add to your flock at a discounted price!
At the End of the Day, This Is About Sustainability and Community.
These pricing changes will help us cover the true costs of caring for our birds, continue improving our breeding programs, invest in better and stronger genetics with each generation, and keep offering specialty birds and hatching eggs right here in our local community.
We aren’t trying to be the cheapest option. We are working hard to provide a quality product, responsibly raised birds, thoughtfully developed genetics, and a level of care that we can stand behind.
Thank you to everyone who supports our little homestead, chooses locally raised birds, and allows us to continue doing something we truly love.
Your support helps us keep growing, improving, and keeping quality quail right here in our community. 🌿
With appreciation,
Bristlecone Pine Homestead 🐦
