Some peeps do the above but for me, I think of it as a "ticking time bomb". You may not have any problems today, tomorrow or a year from now....but eventually you will! I just don't want to risk losing my birds to something that is totally preventable.Well this sucks because i have 45 chicken/chicks, 30 pigeons, 2 bob white quails, and the 2 pheasants, now each is in it's own cage but still they are all close together, plus i hatch all my chicks in the same incubator so chicken chicks and pheasant chicks will be mixed together from day one.