It all started with a YouTube video and a child who wanted to be Gerald Durrell. One moment we were saying “maybe” to hatching pet quail eggs, and the next we were sneaking an incubator into the loft.

As the owner of medium and large-sized dogs, I'm not typically shocked by large pets. Great Danes and Wolfhounds definitely make me do a double take, but not as much as small dogs do. I'm not around ...

My eleven-year-old son is an amateur naturalist. He takes his cue, literally, from The Amateur Naturalist by Gerald Durrell (from The Durrells). My friend lent him her childhood copy and he has ...

Quail brooder made from modified rabbit, guinea pig, or parrot cage. Video starts with new hatchlings and then progresses to ...