What? I raise my quail on the ground. I wasn't pushing the idea to raise birds on wire. How you came to that conclusion is beyond me. But I am also not pushing the idea that everyone should get 1 bird for every square foot in there ground pen.
"if you mix and turn the litter and add more regularly, your birds won’t be wading in poop".
"More space is required for ground pens unless you are going to clean it just about every single day."
So we have both agreed. You can run them with less space but it requires more cleaning effort to...
IMO, the 1 sq ft per bird rule applies more to birds in cages than in ground pens. Ground pens are going to require quite a bit more space as there droppings are on the ground with them vs when they are in a wire pen and it falls to the ground away from where they are. I throw down a bag of...