FowlTalk

Ihave always been facinated with birds, particulary in exotic species asa young child. I was raised around parrots and finches and even bred myown birds at a young age. One year I was promised some button quail formy birthday. I never got them, but I did get gouldian finches and thosewere gorgeous animals. 18 years later I attended Oregon StateUniversity to study pre-veterinary medicine. I was sitting one day inmy Avian Embryology class and my professor tossed me a Pharaoh JapaneseQuail. I fell in love with this bird and named it Stella thinking itwas a female. Well, 6 weeks later my little "girl" started crowing anddeveloping a brown/red breast feathers...Stella became my little man.After I recieved this little bird, I got a female shortly after andstarted breeding the two in a tiny 2 bedroom apartment. I was amazed onhow prolific they were in laying and wanted to make a business out ofit. Soon enough, I got some tuxedoes, Italian Speckles, English, andRosettas to try out and was facinated by the genetics and temperamentof each variety. I  graduated in 2009 with a degree in animal sciences with a poultry and pre-veterinary option and moved to Florida to start my little "business" before applying to veterinary school. In the first few months of living in Florida, I also got into bantamchickens, regular sized chickens, and ducks, including the pekincresteds, runner cresteds, and the regular breeds.As I worked more andmore with my birds, I recently found that my passion is not for veterinary medicine but instead for poultry science.So here I am,  continuing my facination with birds