Indoor quail pen - is this a crazy idea?

[Mhays]

ignore the mess as took these this morning and they just pooped +knocked over stuff etc lol
Floor was a large sheet of cabord from the enclosures box with cat litter (the wood pellet sort) and dust (generic industrial stuff normally used as filler but is same stuff as chinchilla sand) and then each winter layer of straw etc
2 water bottles 1 behind the patition (since adding that seems less fights and calmer as one side stays darker) 2 food trays
also there old heat pad is in there as a housing area they sometimes use plus when cold i turn it on incase then every few days change water scoop eggs out change flooring abit (they seem only poop/lay in one area so most changes for me not huge)

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Awesome! I think this is exactly what we're planning to use! What size is that?

I don't know the space you got or your tooling skills, but did you thought about something like a modified shelf with two floors? Kind of vertical farming.

Something like that:
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Wood ground is covered with PVC for durability and better cleaning.

Screen is mixed grattings and acrylic glas (low) for better viewing and keeping scrapings more in the hutch.

The departments on the left are completely covered with acrylic glas, because there will be the sand baths, keeping the sand in the hutch.

Both floors are connected with a ramp on the right.

I also love the idea of the wood wallpaper on the backscreen.

Lower closets are for food, scrapings and stuff.

Saw this recently and the concept is really interesting for an indoor solution.
In doubt of the ramp, you can keep two seperate floors, with two smaller flocks.

I was thinking that if we built our own cold frame (we have moderate skills) but we could add layers without it being too difficult. My idea is basically using what danielb1990 has, with clear acrylic and screen/partition as needed, but to put it up on a table as a display (kind of like what you are picturing.)

 

[Mhays]

Awesome! I think this is exactly what we're planning to use! What size is that?

D'oh! Just saw you posted the size! Yes, that's exactly the one we are looking at!

 

[danielb1990]

Mine is basic 1mx1m got it on ebay as one them plant greenhouse things for overwintering plants or whatever its called (hasnt got bottom panel)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/18031189284?iid=282427842392

 

[Mhays]

Mine is basic 1mx1m got it on ebay as one them plant greenhouse things for overwintering plants or whatever its called (hasnt got bottom panel)
https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/18031189284?iid=282427842392

Yes, annoyingly we can't get that one in the US - or I'll have to look harder. It would be perfect - we don't want a bottom, that's what we are going to build.

 

[John Sanders]

I just finished week 3 of 15 jumbos in an inside brooder. I was cleaning it everyday the last 3 days. Mine are now in the garage in a grow out pen.

Definitely go with the basement. My wife was ready to choke me!!!