Inside cages vs outside for Coturnix

[seramasrus]

I am wanting to get some Coturnix quail and trying to decide if it will be ok to keep them inside a building with cages or if it is better to keep them in outside cages. I have a small building with 12 cages built in it, they are 20"wide x 24" deep and 24" tall. I had bantams in them and used sand in them since they have wood bottoms. They have been santized and all, I just wondering if they could be used for Coturnix or should I build outside cages. It is heated in the winter with lights in it and I was hoping to keep egg production going during the winter months.Any thoughts from anyone that has kept them both ways?

 

[Marty1876]

I keep mine outside under cover in summer (as it can get very hot - in the hundreds all last week - and I don't want them overheated. IN the winter they come into my barn, for lights and continued egg production, and it also gets cold (near 0 or lower) in the winter.

Hope that helps! I'd say, if it gets as hot in humid in NC where you are as the rest of the south, they'll be outside in summer too,