Best Quail Cages

[winterwolf4]

I have looked at cages from Wylona Ranch and Hatching Time cages. I know that neither is rat-proofproof due to the egg rollout. What if I put the cages in a shed? In the other half our chicken coop we have a walk-in storage like shed. Is it bad to have chickens and quail relatively near eachother?

 

[scyllarus]

I've never kept chickens, but from what I've read on the forums quail and chickens should not be kept together. Quail have not been as domesticated as chickens and are not as tolerant of disease, so your chickens may harbor microbes that can kill your quail.

I think it depends on how far apart, though, and whether you can maintain biosecurity and not bring germs between the flocks.

 

[CliftonQuail]

I have looked at cages from Wylona Ranch and Hatching Time cages. I know that neither is rat-proofproof due to the egg rollout. What if I put the cages in a shed? In the other half our chicken coop we have a walk-in storage like shed. Is it bad to have chickens and quail relatively near eachother?

Since the Wynola Ranch cages have metal legs, they're probably a bit more rat proof than the Hatching Time, but I still wouldn't put them outside with no protection.
@scyllarus answered your question about keeping chicken and quail near each other the same way that I was going to.

 

[winterwolf4]

This is what I ended up going with. I found it on Craigslist. We are finishing Rat proofing the walk in part of the chicken coop. So the quail will be safe.

 

[CliftonQuail]

Looks like a good setup and it's similar to mine, though I only have 3 tiers. I also have gravity fed waterers with a 5 gallon bucket. I've had the outlet from the bucket clog a couple of times (I added a powdered vitamin to the water and didn't mix it very well). When I build my next set of cages, I plan to have two separate watering systems with each cage being watered from two sources.

 

[Huntmaster]

I have a four tier Wynola Ranch with the 10" Myshire Cage setup for my laying breeders love it. And I made a rack for brooding and grow out, brooders on left and grow outs on right. @winterwolf4 Good luck with your quail adventures.

 

[Huntmaster]

Looking to build a few outdoor pens soon, have been using my large building brooder I use for my turkeys for my adults just living their best lives. Going to need my brooder for the turkeys in just over a month, so I really need to get going on those outdoor pens. Looking to make them more like aviaries than just pens.

 

[winterwolf4]

Here is some photos of my quail in their new cage.

 

[Huntmaster]

Here is some photos of my quail in their new cage.

Looking good

 

[Huntmaster]

Here is some photos of my quail in their new cage.

I noticed your droppings pans are bare, I always add wood shavings/sawdust something like that to trays just a light covering. As it makes it so much easier to clean, just slides right off and helps with pans lasting much longer. The feces/urates are so corrosive they eat the pans up.