I would suggest coturnix to start with. They do well in smaller spaces, come to maturity quickly, and are quiet and fairly easy to handle. I love my cots, they can be very sweet and friendly if you handle them enough. My female is the sweetest little thing - she talks to me when she sees me, and I can even let her out of her pen and she will just stay in the yard and play in the grass (but I wouldn't generally recommend letting them out, they don't free range). I say go for it!
Mom to one rambunctious 4-year-old, and the one who brings the food to my "blended family" of several coturnix and a silkie hen. (Flock? Covey? Flovey?) Proud chicken momma of 2 easter eggers, 2 speckled sussex, and 2 silver cuckoo marans, and beginning the adventure of hatching coturnix eggs.
Mom to one rambunctious 4-year-old, and the one who brings the food to my "blended family" of several coturnix and a silkie hen. (Flock? Covey? Flovey?) Proud chicken momma of 2 easter eggers, 2 speckled sussex, and 2 silver cuckoo marans, and beginning the adventure of hatching coturnix eggs.