➡ Quail Hatch Along🥚

[R2elk]

Clear skies, no wind and 54°F here.

The wind almost never stops here.

 

[Maiahr]

@Claire A what do you use for floor? It looks like wood shaving, you mentioned tarp? what is tarp? And how do you clean this setting? What is under the shavings, is it concrete, tiles?

 

[Claire A]

@Claire A what do you use for floor? It looks like wood shaving, you mentioned tarp? what is tarp? And how do you clean this setting? What is under the shavings, is it concrete, tiles?

Hi Maiahr,

Tarp is a waterproof thick plastic sheet, used either as a groundsheet or keeping garden things dry when it rains I cover the white plastic squares with this because of the shavings falling through the gaps onto my wood floor. The sheet can be lifted up and the mess poured into a bin and then replaced and shavings put on top. it also just wipes clean if needed. I pay £2.99 for the tarp in Poundstreatcher - and use it for all sorts of stuff

 

[Claire A]

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it’s 18x37 pvc frame attached to deck, fence, and 8’ privacy fence covered in HD aviary netting.....the gate in pic is entrance to smaller area where I had my chickens and now keep my bunnies and bb turkeys.

muddy I your set up. I thought my pen was pretty big - but yours is awesome

How many males can you fit in there without fighting?

 

[Claire A]

Make another video!
Of anything.
I just want to hear you talk more.

Hahahaha oh, wait I did post another one in the other pets thread - one of my GSD learning to ride a skateboard

 

[muddy75]

muddy I your set up. I thought my pen was pretty big - but yours is awesome

How many males can you fit in there without fighting?

i have about a dozen males atm.....it’s time to remove some.....not fighting but it gets pretty noisy and my girls start needing stocking caps .....i have 1 male pheasant to 3 females and still don’t know genders on the 5 chukars.

 

[Claire A]

That's cool - makes me think I can possibly keep a few more males in mine Have four in a 20 x 8 pen - I was always worried about fighting. Makes my life hard deciding which males to keep and with the new colors I have even more difficult decision

 

[Pennys Mama]

The wind almost never stops here.

I can handle all kinds of cold, freezing, & snow until the wind starts to blow then I'm done. The wind seems to make it 100 times colder to me. I'm back in Oklahoma after 10 years in Florida, we'll see how this 1st winter back goes.

 

[muddy75]

That's cool - makes me think I can possibly keep a few more males in mine Have four in a 20 x 8 pen - I was always worried about fighting. Makes my life hard deciding which males to keep and with the new colors I have even more difficult decision

I currently have 1 grow-out cage set up in the aviary.....but my long-term goal is to have several cages available to separate out breeding groups of colors I want to incubate and then cycle them back into the aviary. (And to have safe haven to move into during bad weather) Mixed hatches are cool, but higher risk for lethal genes, albinism etc.

 

[Pennys Mama]

I currently have 1 grow-out cage set up in the aviary.....but my long-term goal is to have several cages available to separate out breeding groups of colors I want to incubate and then cycle them back into the aviary. (And to have safe haven to move into during bad weather) Mixed hatches are cool, but higher risk for lethal genes, albinism etc.

The blind quailie that I had to cull yesterday was 1 of my two white babies, and it was albino. Culling is harder than I thought it would be . It just wasn't going to thrive, it was much smaller than the others.