Keeping coturnix inside your house?

[Sumatra503]

Quite a few of mine are inside at the moment. Crowing Roos don't make good room mates.

I am using a plastic bottomed small animal cage for a few of my roos and a fish tank for my younger ones. I had too many fights breaking out in the big pen, so I had to split them up more. It may help to place the feeder in the center of the cage, so the waste falls throught he wire into the tray.

 

[Robo]

You could hang their feeder high enought to where they have to reach a little bit. This is what I do.

 

[Rozzie]

All of mine are inside. 4 are in the garage. The rest are in the basement.

Some of the birds are on solid bottoms, with wood pellets for bedding. Some are on wire. The wire is definitely easier to change but the solid bottoms are QUIETER. I hear a constant clicking as they walk around on wire. Of course, that is drowned out by the constant crowing of half a dozen males and their never ending crowing wars.

Whatever you choose, you do have to stay on top of cleaning the cages.

Temperature of the area where they are kept plays a key role. The warmer it is, the more odor you'll have, regardless of how you keep the quail. Birds in the garage in 85-90 degree heat of summer = smelly, even if you change bedding & clean cages constantly. 75 degrees = not too bad. 65 degrees is barely noticeable, and the birds in the garage which now have 50 degrees have no detectable odor unless you stick your nose to their bedding.

 

[Wifezilla]

I used a rabbit waterer. They didn't seem to have any trouble with it.

As for the feed...yeah...you don't want them to be able to get their foot near it. They will try and scratch (natural instinct) and scatter it EVERYWHERE!

 

[kingmt]

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I'll get back to you.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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for a feeder use a solid bottomed rabbit feeder or just put a heavy piece of paper over the wire on the inside... i have most of mine out side in the old rabbit cages... but i have my red goldens and English whites inside in my chick brooders here is one with chicks in it...

i use pine shavings for bedding and change it about once a week... only down side is that i have to look threw the shavings to find the eggs lol...

 

[JJMR794]

KEEPING COTURNIX INDOORS... LOL I CAN SEE IT NOW... COMPANY COMES OVER....

"GOOD LAWWWD WHAT IS THAT SMELL?"

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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lol... i have mine on a enclosed back porch with a door in between them and the house so no smell...

 

[JJMR794]

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lol... i have mine on a enclosed back porch with a door in between them and the house so no smell...

WISE CHOICE MY FRIEND

RIGHT NOW I AM DOWN TO ABOUT 150 QUAIL AND A DOZEN OR SO CHICKEN BABIES IN THE HOUSE... THE REST ARE OUTSIDE IN THE BARN. ITS A REVOLVING THING AROUND THO... THEY GET OLD ENOUGH= OUT THEY GO! THEN MORE HATCH...

 

[Rozzie]

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LOL I'm pretty meticulous about this...all trays are scraped daily. Coturnix on solid bottoms have the pens spot cleaned daily, or close to it. Button quail cages are on a rotating cleanout. I do as many as I can that need to be done before I get tired of freaking them out.

. I also shop vac any spills daily, sometimes 2-3 times a day. And, the rabbit pan gets cleaned out every day, too, as do my cat pans. (The huge shallow cage with two lamps over it is for a turtle.) Once the weather warms up enough & I identify any females in the ones that are 3 weeks old, a covey will move up into the garage into the other peach/orange home.

I also have two other cages in the garage that I can use, plus 3-4 other spares for roos.