Alexandra Doss

Poultry & Livestock Expert

Alexandra Doss is a Poultry & Livestock Expert expert based in Ruskin, Florida. She owns and manages Stellar Game Birds, Poultry, Waterfowl LLC, a selective breeding operation with game birds, poultry, and waterfowl. With over 14 years of experience, she produces strong genetics and health in her hatching eggs, eating eggs, and live birds. The farm is FWC game farm licensed, FDAC licensed for quail, chicken, and duck eating eggs and meat, and NPIP certified. She is known as the Quail Lady and has published several books on raising Coturnix. Her work has been featured in Mother Earth News, Backyard Poultry, Grit, The Chicken Whisperer Magazine, and Community Chickens. She also has a career as a Workforce Management Supervisor and has a certificate in project ​​management. She received a BS from Oregon State in Animal Sciences.

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Co-authored Articles (19)

How to Humanely Euthanize a Backyard Chicken

The best ways to give a chicken a quick and painless deathWhether you’re raising backyard chickens as pets or running a small poultry farm, it’s important to treat your birds with dignity and kindness at the end of ...

How to

Make a Simple Homemade Incubator for Chicks

Raising chickens at home has become popular recently since more people have become educated about the plight of hens raised in factory farms. Hatching chickens can be a fun family project, too. While the costs of buying ...

How to

Make Feed for Chickens

Making your own chicken feed is a great way to save money and allows you to know exactly what you’re feeding your chickens. If you want to feed your chickens organically, use organic ingredients in these recipes. Try t...

How to

Take Care of Ducklings

centerDucklings that have just hatched from their shells need a warm, safe environment to grow up strong and healthy. If you create a home free of hazards and provide them with plenty of food and water, your curious, pl...

Everything You Need to Know to Create a Profitable Poultry Farm

Follow these tips to build a successful chicken farm businessRunning a chicken farm requires more than just agricultural know-how. If you want to be a chicken farmer, you must also think like a business person while gro...

How to Construct a Chicken Run

Making a safe and spacious area for your fowl friendsAre your chickens cooped up but you want to let them run outside? A chicken run, or an outdoor pen attached to the coop, will help solve your problems and protect you...

How to

Worm Chickens

Chickens are prone to contracting parasitic worms, such as gapeworms, roundworms, and tapeworms. Although not all species of worms are damaging to the chicken’s system, others can cause weight loss, poor egg production...

How to

Feed Pigs

Knowing what, when, and how to feed your pigs will help them grow big and healthy. A well-balanced diet is also essential for producing high quality meat, if they're destined for the market. Start young piglets off with ...

How to

Raise Pigs

Whether you are planning on raising pigs to be sold for their meat, or to be kept as pets, you will need to know how to house them and care for them. Pigs are valuable animals for their meat and their manure. The rise of...

How to

Increase the Weight of a Pig

Increasing the weight of a pig requires giving it the right food. If the pig doesn't gain weight as fast you'd like, you should reduce its fiber intake while adding fat and sugar to its diet. Choosing the right protein...

How to

Hatch Chicken Eggs

Hatching chicken eggs is an extremely rewarding experience, which requires good planning, dedication, flexibility and observation skills. Chicken eggs have an incubation period of about 21 days and can be hatched using e...

How to

Start a Goat Farm

Raising goats can be a lucrative and enjoyable farming experience, as long as you are well prepared. Discover reasons to farm goats and what you need to consider to start a goat farm.

How to

Treat Goats for Ticks and Fleas

An in-depth guide on how to apply tick and flea medication to goats Tick and flea infestations can cause any number of problems in a goat herd, from disrupting healthy fleece and milk production to causing anemia and poo...

How to

Start a Chicken Farm

Are you tired of heading to the grocery store for suspect eggs and frozen chicken every week? Small scale chicken farming has been growing in popularity among hobbyists as a sustainable way to have eggs and chickens alwa...

How to Make Nesting Boxes for Chickens

Make your feathered friends comfortable and secureWhether you have a full flock or a few backyard chickens, making your own nesting boxes can be an easy and affordable way to bring fresh eggs to the table. With a little...

How to

Breed Chickens

Breeding chickens is a great way to create a sustainable flock, and should be learned by every chicken farmer and enthusiast. Watching the process is a fantastic learning tool as well, thanks to the short amount of time ...

How to

Take Care of Chickens

Chickens are amazing creatures that are fun, sweet, and loving, and they can provide a constant supply of fresh eggs. These feathered friends will cluck their way into your backyard and into your heart! Start by making s...

How to

Care for a Chick

Chicks are fluffy, adorable, and often hard to resist. You may get a baby chick as an Easter gift or to raise as a pet. But baby chicks are very sensitive to their environments and require proper care in order to grow in...

How to Breed Ducks

Everything you need to know for successful mating and hatchingDomestic ducks produce good-sized, rich eggs, taste delicious, can rid your garden of slugs and snails and are relatively easy to care for. Whether you decid...