About Me & My Life and My Animals

Hi there! I've been apart of this blog site since July 2007, however I didn't stick with it much. I plan to now as a way to share my love of my life with my family and birds! Maybe someone with like-wise thinking and interests will take interest in my blog to make it worth while. In the mean time it's here for me to keep track of my breedings and such! :)

I raise and breed the wonderful little quail called the Japanese Coturnix, known by many as just Coturnix Quails. They are more like mini chickens than quails, as they are no where near skiddish like most quails are, and they can get so comfortable with you that they'll eat out of your hands. Ofcourse just like chickens, they perfer not to be held...well some do but most...don't. I also bred Button Quails (Chinese Painted Quails) however they are just too skiddish, and to unaffectionate for me to have any interest to keep breeding and working with them. I'm finding homes hopefully here soon for my trio of buttons and I'm keeping my first ever button quail hen because she was my first ever hatched bird, as well as she's actually semi tame and likes being with people. :)

*Pippin to the right*

Here are some of the varieties of Coturnix Quails I raise and will be offering for sale (pick up or shipping on hatching eggs).

*Golden* aka Manchurian, Italian etc

*Tibetan* aka British Range

*A & M* aka Texas A & M White*Jumbo Brown* aka Large Pharoah Coturnix

*Tuxedo* aka Tibetan crossed with A & MJust a few more months and my outdoor coturnix (the main breeders) will be penned up according to color and I will start getting eggs! I cannot wait! Then will come the work of finding new colors to add to my existing flock! :) Looking for Silver and Ginger mostly. :) Well and other dark tibetans. :D Anyone interested in my quail for hatching eggs can email me at monarc23@yahoo.com or visit my website at http://www.freewebs.com/quailgal.

I have a small flock (5) of Golden Comets, they are gorgeous! I am willing to sell their eggs in the future (right now im only getting 1 egg a day) however these are MUTT birds. They are a cross of RIR and White Leghorn- they are sex-linked but their babies won't be. They will be $2 for a dozen plus shipping when they all start laying. They are amazing layers, HUGE eggs....below is the birds and their eggs:

*Beautiful Medium-Brown Speckled eggs*

I am working on getting Black Bantam Amerucanas, as well as Black Jersey Giants, Buff & Blue/Splash Orphingtons, and mutt chickens for bettering my egg laying....I cannot wait!

I have in the incubator right now over 3 dozen Golden Comet eggs amungst Golden CometXGolden Comet (mutts), and pure Road Island Red (RIR) eggs. First are due to hatch on the 10th of this month!!!! :D Ofcourse I will update here with pictures and maybe even videos!

Niki