No questions for the day, show me your pens and quails!

[quailz123]

Yeah just like me I like the way they enjoy life but my are a&m's so I don't think they'll lay on them so I'm going to buy them a small incubator.

 

[Weirdness555]

We have a little incy, I used it before to hatch buttons, but I haven't used it for years so I have no idea if it still works. I'm currently debating hatching any or not, I'd want to find someone willing to buy the birds or at last take them before I hatched any.

 

[quailz123]

Bottons or the incubator?

 

[quailz123]

Which one do you mean?

 

[quailz123]

If its the incubator send me pics because I'm very interested in that. Night.

 

[speedy2020]

Here is my look like. I still need to add a large feeder box on each side of the pen and 4 nipples PVC water system.

 

[quailz123]

Very thoughtfull and nice.

 

[Quailsong]

Right, here goes:





















































So, as you can see, we have an aviary in 2 parts with a passage round the back between the 2, the floor is dirt with wire mesh underneath, there are big chunks of log everywhere (they are bay logs - I read that they're not poisonous, and the quail don't really do much with them except sit on them anyway). The hut is water and draft proof, and there are little tunnel things in the other half as hiding places, and the terracotta dish behind the hut is the sand dish which they love to bath in. There are little grass plants in the corners, which are pretty much dead due to quail sitting on them, and there are grass plants planted around the outside of the aviary to make them feel a bit more secure. Since the photos were taken we added a roof tile (one of the half pipe shaped ones) which makes another tunnel for them. They seem pretty happy

Nice aviary. I'm a big fan of natural pens for quail.

As a suggestion, you could put a hidey-bin stuffed w/ dry grass inbetween two grass plants - so they're more likely to go in the hole to lay, rather than sit on the living grass (which still has the top open - exposing them to flying 'threats'). The hole could be an overturned clay pot, plastic bin, or whatever suitable container you have on hand.

Also, I spot a herp feeder dish. Those are a bugger to clean for my crabs, don't know how you manage it with quail.

 

[speedy2020]

Questions for many folks who raise quails on ground or make nature setting: As you know, quail don't lay their eggs on the same location every day. Is is a hassle to collect the eggs every day?

 

[Quailsong]

Questions for many folks who raise quails on ground or make nature setting: As you know, quail don't lay their eggs on the same location every day. Is is a hassle to collect the eggs every day?

I've yet to raise quail but this is my thought based on what I've read. If you make a set # of hidey holes per # of quail (I don't know the figures but say 1 hidey hole every 2 hen quail, as an idea) then you can set them in specific, out of the way spots. They'll be more likely to rotate & lay in them there than in an open/exposed area. They have to be ideal though (good size/shape, nesting material).