I'm a hick because I use rabbit hutches with wire bottoms guys :)

[monarc23]

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oh a fellow hick with a quail i'd love to see in person!

Thanks for this post, I knew I wasn't alone but it's nice to show it to that person as well. This person used to be a byc memeber... supposedly they arent anymore..they WERE kicked off atleast once. Wonder why. LOL.

 

[B. Saffles Farms]

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Nothing wrong at all with being a hick. I guess to most people Ive been one all my life.

 

[Crazy4Chicks]

hmm I guess I am only 50% hick LOL

my button quail are housed in a plastic tote ( for now until thier new hutch gets built )

my coturnix quail are in a wire cage that is made for rabbits with yes a wire bottom LOL

my birds seem perfctly fine in the wire cage - no poop on the eggs or their feet alot easier to keep clean.

I see nothing wrong with it LOL

 

[Appaloosa Hill Farm]

What?? Well, count me in the Hick Country Club. We all need shirts or something.

When I first got my quail, I housed them on a solid floor. Yeah, not my favorite OR theirs! They couldn't get traction and slipped and slid everywhere they went. My 5yo called them the Ice Skating Wonder Quail. The floor was littered with their feces (even with cleaning out daily--we all have birds, we know how it is)--who wants to walk/sit/lay/sleep in that?! The wire floors keep them cleaner, in traction (

), and all around more comfortable in my opinion.

 

[KyleD.]

I guess i'm "hick" as well...for many reasons.
1. My quail will be kept on hardware cloth
2. I live way back in the woods
3. The guy who played the banjo in Deliverance lives twenty some odd minutes from my house (crazy story to that)
4. Even my high school is knows as the "redneck" school in the county lol
5. Oh the harware cloth cage was indeed built for a rabbit

 

[Bettacreek]

I'm apparantly one of the few who uses solid bottoms, but, well, having indoor birds, I'm a little restricted, and solid is the only way to have a large cage. I've been on the look-out for huge flight type cages with the grated bottom and a pull-out tray, but haven't found anything big enough that would work and is in my price range. Would be nice though, it gets VERY old changing the bedding, and having half of it kicked out of the cage within ten minutes of every change.

And, you DON'T want this person posting here, dear god, we'd ALL pull our hair out in frustration. The person just doesn't learn, doesn't want to and simply doesn't care. You'd ALL be called animal abusers, especially those who butcher, lol.

 

[Mrs MIA]

I have them both ways, and believe me, but the end of summer they ALL will be on wire. I have more problems with them walking in their own poo and then getting all sorts of feathers and Volkswagens stuck to their toes and them being lame because they can't walk straight.

I try to keep them clean, but YOU try rounding up a covey of bobwhites one by one to clean their toes...
My coturnix are housed on wire with no problems, and they stay cleaner than anything. Less expense when you don't have to supply shavings, too, and I don't have to sweep up kicked out shavings all the time. I'd like to put all my birds, including my ducks, on wire if I could...

Welcome to Hicksville... growing in population daily!

 

[MaineChickens]

I guess that makes me a hick too. I have 6 quail to a 3ftx2ft rabbit cage. I give them a container of shavings to bathe in, but other than that, they are on wire and are doing very well that way. I see no reason to put them on a solid floor.

I already had the rabbit cages when I got the quail eggs. Why not use them? The cages are in my chicken coop and after this weekend they will be wall mounted so that the feed they toss the chickens can pick up and stir up the bedding below.

Makes perfect sense to me...

 

[ShadyGlade]

Add me to the hick club as well. Except for the button quail pair that live in an aquarium, all our adult quail are on wire bottomed floors. I wish I had more rabbit hutches for them. Alas most of the rabbit hutches actually contain rabbits. The 'teenagers' are in a guinea pig pen with a plastic grate floor which is almost as hard to keep clean as the solid floors in the chicks' brooders. I have found that I like the wire floors soooo much that I'm having Himself build me some breeding cages for chicken pairs and trios just as soon as he builds me another couple of quail pens. (Why is it so difficult to only keep a couple of quail?)

 

[onthespot]

I am a partial hick. I don't have quail, but some of my chickens are on wire, some are on dirt. The wire ones all have a standing board in case they want to not be on wire, but I hardly ever even see poop on the standing board, which makes me think they don't care if they are on wire or not.