after a lot of umming and aahing, the beardy one talked me into finally committing to buying some birds. i want quail, chickens and bantams, decided to start with quail so off we went to market.
still undecided even as my bidding arm involuntaruly shot into the air time after time, and came home with 2 japanese, 2 italian, 2 texas a & m white and a brown texas. a good start the beardy one commented, no yells i thats it, i only wanted 3 or 4, but knowing me better than i sometimes know myself he smiled no doubt thinking, yeah yeah this number will be doubled by next week.
the birds settled beautifully but one didnt look so good so i prepared beardy son for the worst and sadly over night the worst happened, another looks a bit iffy and ive popped her into a holding cage for a bit of intensive tlc.
after realising that i had 2 cock birds, standing to full height and crowing their fabulous 'im king of the world' song i needed to up the ratio of girls to boys, so off we went to the local farm park and bought 6 of the plumpest most beautiful quail hens ever. 5 girls to one boy,( what was that about doubling my numbers?) all is well, iffy is still iffy but i am totally in love.
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