Help!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crash0330]

So I have 15 bobwhite in a big coop there on the ground, I recently got three chickens there silkies, and I dont have where to put them since i have limited space, So I was thinking on Making a quail coop inside the coop where I have them right now, It'd be something like this and it"d be three feet up the ground

, so my question is I know that chickens carry deadly deseases for quails, so Are my quails still in danger even if there three feet up from the chickens but in the same coop?

 

[Funky Feathers]

As far as airborne illness/respiratory diseases, yes. Not a good idea. They should be in separate biuldings. Maybe put the quail pen in the house until you can build or buy a new building.

 

[pascopol]

Chicken and quail don't mix.

Unfortunately.

 

[fishman65]

keeping quail and chickens in the same coop together is just asking for heartbreak. Quail are a disease magnet when they are housed with chickens. I would keep them seperate or you are taking a big risk.

 

[Kazzandra]

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[Kazzandra]

I've heard that quail are disease magnets and I've kept my bobwhite for three years now in a separate cage in my chicken run. The quail have never had any diseases. My chickens have had both types of lice and now bumblefoot. Now you tell me who the disease magnets are...

I'd say put that cage outside of your current coop. As long as the quail have some sort of shelter and enough buddies they are very winter hardy. Make it with good hardware cloth. I'd say the biggest risk with quail (and chickens) is bad ventilation.

Keeping the quail and the chickens from the same ground is important. I kept my quail on a wire-caged floor and I never had any problems. Recently, I've switched to a design that gives them open access to the ground because they *love* to dustbathe and they would whine when they would see my chickens do it and I couldn't take it anymore! The ground was clean of chickens at the time, and so far, I've had no problems.

 

[crash0330]

Yeah i dont think its as bad as some people say here, I left my quails in the same coop as my chickens for almost two weeks, I had them just sepparated with some boxes, and sometimes the quails would find a way to sneak into the chickens part of the pen and it was all good no problems at all, i do decided to separate them tho, just cuz the chickens are much dirty than quails and it was a pain in the ass cleaning up the pen while the quails were there, they be flying all over the place.

 

[aprophet]

http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ps030

http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/veterinary/issues/vet-02-26-2/vet-26-2-37-0109-14.pdf

pretty interesting reading good luck

 

[JJMR794]

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