Coop/Cage Pictures? - Deep Litter

[FloorCandy]

Does that moving around affect their laying? I brought these girls home and they appear to be starting to lay again (I just found an egg this morning after 5 days in blank), but I´m afraid to sort of ruin their adaptation process.

Also, dont care much about the grass. Mainly want to move them the least to keep them healthy and comfortable.

No, they all lay every day in the breeder, and they don’t care when I tilt it up and move it. When I move them back into general pop from the breeder pen, I often have a day or 2 where 1 or 2 won’t lay. But they pick right back up every time so far, no more than 2 days.

When I take 1 roo and 3-4 hens and put them into the breeder pen, they have never stopped laying, it seems only the social rearranging of being merged back in that makes a couple not lay, I don’t even know which don’t lay, it could be ones moved back in or ones who were in the big pen and then got stressed when the pecking order adjusts.

 

[FloorCandy]

I will add tho that my quail aren’t anxious, and when I open the pen they aren’t scared, they approach looking for treats, so the whole thing probably isn’t as scary to them as it would be to more independent quail who aren’t used to people and dogs and whatever being around.

 

[Lilyofsalen]

Here is a picture of a 13 square foot, deep litter grow-out pen I am almost finished with. I used pine shavings and alfalfa for the litter. Banana leaves, plastic pots, and a green sandbox provide cover. Below it is another pen that when finished will have a divider in the middle and will hold two breeder sets in each side.