Hey all! Look at all this white space to write in! I am known to write books so I will shorten the story about myself. To introduce myself, my name is Alexandra and I have always been facinated with birds, particulary in exotic species as a young child. I was raised around parrots and finches and even bred my own birds at a young age. One year I was promised some button quail for my birthday. I never got them, but I did get gouldian finches and those were gorgeous animals. 18 years later I attended Oregon State University to study pre-veterinary medicine. I was sitting one day in my Avian Embryology class and my professor tossed me a Pharaoh Japanese Quail. I fell in love with this bird and named it Stella thinking it was a female. Well, 6 weeks later my little "girl" started crowing and developing a brown/red breast feathers...Stella became my little man. After I recieved this little bird, I got a female shortly after and started breeding the two in a tiny 2 bedroom apartment. I was amazed on how prolific they were in laying and wanted to make a business out of it. Soon enough, I got some tuxedoes, Italian Speckles, English, and Rosettas to try out and was facinated by the genetics and temperament of each variety. I graduated in 2009 with a degree in animal sciences with a poultry and pre-veterinary option and moved to Florida to continue working with my coturnix quail before applying to vet school. In the first few months of living in Florida, I also got into bantam chickens, regular sized chickens, and ducks, including the pekin cresteds, runner cresteds, and the regular breeds.As I worked more and more with my birds, I recently found that my passion is not for veterinary medicine but instead for poultry science. I am working on my masters in poultry science and then going for my PhD. I have a website up and running for the most part. I sell hatching eggs for all the birds mentioned but currently only the button quail and coturnix quail are laying so that's all I got so far. oh! please visit my website http://www.stellargamebirds.com
