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Thanks for the input! I guess I had read on the forums about 1/4 inch being the standard. I'm glad to hear you've had success with the panels, Tattooedchick. I do think they seem easier to put up and they look usually look more polished with no sagging if combined with wood frames. This run...

I am building a run (finally, GEEZE!) for our chickens on a slope below their coop shed. It will be about 30 feet long and 15 feet wide. It will eventually have a roof at the top and wire over the rest. Here are my options: 1. Use 1/4 inch hardware cloth on the whole thing, and make it about...

That does look nice and tidy. Thanks for the idea- I'll look around and see what's in our area. We had thought about a vinyl coated chain link run...

I am preparing to build our first run for our 14 pet chickens. They're generally a mix of big egg laying breeds. Their coop is the 10 x 10 shed in the right half of this picture. We plan to add an automatic door to the wall you see facing downhill toward the swing set. I hope to have the run...

For your first question, read the original post in this thread for a tutorial. For the food, we use a game bird crumble and just make sure it's at least 28% protein. We also mix in some oyster shell for additional calcium. I think that original post also talks about that a bit, or if you look...

Yes, we do find eggs buried from time to time. We're a very small operation, so usually I just count the eggs and try to be sure I found all that were there. I also throw away any that float when i hard boil them (and that's how we use them most of the time). I try to keep in mind that many...

Love that! Tidy.

Yes, I love the horizontal nipples Just like that for our chickens. Here's hoping the quail can trigger them, too. Somebody out there should make an already-assembled horizontal waterer and patent it quick. Our Wilco (like tractor supply) has nothing like it.

Ps we did put a tray underneath but the leaked water wicks out. Plus it made a lovely poop mud bath for our girls. Yuck!

We bought one of these and I have to admit... I hate it. It leaks like crazy. Our quail drink about a gallon and it leaks 2 more each week. Maybe more. It has totally ruined our deep litter in the quail coop which now reeks. Plus it goes through so much water we might as well have one of the...

Yes we could remove those. I suppose they are more for outdoor chicken runs. I think I'll also cut away more of the inside part. We did add some dried mealworms around the holes, but it generated only minimal interest.

Maybe our quail are particularly silly? Can't figure out why they don't eat from this thing...

The quail are happy and we finally got the roof on our quail coop. I bought a vertical waterer with pre-installed nipples because it was on sale and we have so many projects going, I needed to save some time. I know it's too low- we bought pipe strapping and will raise it up tonight. I think...

Yay! They are such sweeties.

We have three ee's, the same age. One is already quite a bit bigger than the others and its legs look thicker to me. What do you think? Pullet or cockerel?

Quail like to dig around and make sleeping spots and bathing spots. If there was something there like sand or pieces of dirt, or even broken up dusty spots of pine shavings, they will bathe in it by throwing it all over them selves and through their feathers. They don't usually dig very deep...

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Ours mixed flock is about 5 weeks old. I gave them a shovelful of sod the other day and they seem to like playing around on it. Today I pulled a million weeds from a flower bed. Mostly creeping buttercup I think, and some dandelion. Can I toss a bunch of these to the chicks? Do folks do that...

We had ours in a guest bathroom tub and afterward I realized it would have helped to close the shower curtain. If I had to do it again, I would take a roll of visqueen and made a Dexter-like corner of our garage. Tape the stuff up to the ceiling in a corner, taping all the seams except one slit...

Hopefully more experienced dl folks will respond, but I don't think too wet is usually a problem. If your cage is large enough and your waterers don't leak it seems to stay pretty dry. For it to compost, there should be a certain amount of moisture. Keep in mind, though, this is my first week...