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chiques chicks said:
I'll let you know about hatching in a few days. I plan to house in cages. I've had bobwhite, and they do well in cages/pens. Sloppy eaters, lots of poo. Not much different than chickens or turkey, IMO. Just a lot less space needed.
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CC: What are the dimension of you cages? I've herd of very different heights...some say 5' so they won't bang their head against the top some say 2' so they don't even try to fly up....
 
It's supposed to be 6 degrees here on Sunday during the day...I don't even want to talk about factoring the wind chill in...anyway, our run is closed in & doesn't get a big drafts so I am wondering if I can let the girls out or should I keep them in the coop? I do have a hanging patio heater in the run that I rarely use, haven't used it but a few times last winter. Unless they are right under it, it doesn't seem to make too much of a difference since the run is quite large. My coop is pretty small for 8 birds to be cooped up in for the day, it wasn't so bad when I only had the 2, I didn't worry about them then. Plus they pick on one of the girls & I'm afraid she'll not be able to get away good enough if she needs to, I'm afraid they'll get bored & pick on her more. My coop is about 4X8 or 5X9. Any opinions welcome.
 
We open our pop door no matter what the temps.... though we will leave it closed an extra hour if it is extremely cold. We had custom vinyl panels made to enclose the portion of run which is under roof (maybe 400 sq ft), when it is horribly cold we don't open the vinyl flap door to the rest of the open run area, but the birds spend most of their day out under the 'carport' area even when it is below 10*. Being blocked from the wind seems to be the determining factor for our birds.... if it is dry and out of the wind they are content to hang out there...
 
Thanks Fisher, our run is pretty snug, we have clear plastic in the front so they can catch the sun when it's out and the other walls are all dog ear fencing with the opening between the slats covered with other slats so that does keep out the wind. I know they'll come out, they love being out in the run, I was just worried since it's going to be so cold even without the wind chill. We do get some runoff in the run but it's frozen now & we put some straw on that for now then we'll remove it when the temp comes up above freezing. Our summer project then will be to put some drains in since the run is at the bottom of our hillside. With all the more snow melt we had last year, it wasn't a problem, but those few warm days recently melted quite a bit of our snow. We actually didn't think it would be an issue much since it wasn't the first 2 years we've had the girlies.
 
I forgot to mention our whole run is under roof. We have clear in the back & tan in the front which allows just the perfect amount of sun in year round. Below is what it looks like in the summer. (and during construction). The double white door on the right is their coop. It looks better once we cleaned up the area..lol We still have to paint the dog ear fencing, another summer project.








 
stake said:
CC: What are the dimension of you cages? I've herd of very different heights...some say 5' so they won't bang their head against the top some say 2' so they don't even try to fly up....
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After some reading, I'm going with 12". My hippie is they don't get enough energy to injure themselves when they jump.

Ask me in about two months how that works out!

Came home to 5 out a day out two early.
 
vicki5112 said:
It's supposed to be 6 degrees here on Sunday during the day...I don't even want to talk about factoring the wind chill in...anyway, our run is closed in & doesn't get a big drafts so I am wondering if I can let the girls out or should I keep them in the coop?  I do have a hanging patio heater in the run that I rarely use, haven't used it but a few times last winter.  Unless they are right under it, it doesn't seem to make too much of a difference since the run is quite large.  My coop is pretty small for 8 birds to be cooped up in for the day, it wasn't so bad when I only had the 2, I didn't worry about them then.  Plus they pick on one of the girls & I'm afraid she'll not be able to get away good enough if she needs to, I'm afraid they'll get bored & pick on her more.  My coop is about 4X8 or 5X9.  Any opinions welcome.
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My pop door is never closed. Period. They come and go at will. Run is totally open.

Of course I have 38 chickens spread over three runs. I thinned the flock for the winter.
 
maran man said:
Hello out there Pennsylvania. I am not a Pennsylvanian but a student a WVU and a native of Southern WV. I am currently looking for 4-5 roosters for a study I am doing for one of my classes and have posted on the WV thread and figured seeing as how close I am to Pennsylvania I would post here as well hoping to not offend anyone since I am not from Pennsylvania. 

I am looking for 4-5 Rooster of mature age prefeablely game stock and 1-2 other them standard meat or layer stock birds. I am doing a breed comparison study to see how different types of rooster habitat with hen of completely different type. After my study I will take the roosters to my home farm in the southern part of WV where they will be placed in pens with flocks of there own breed or flocks of experimental/mixture breeding. 

Thank you very much for your time.
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I have some EE roos & a few silkie roos that are almost 3 months old that I need good homes for. I was going to wait until March/April to post them since I figure that most people won't be looking to add to their flocks until then. You are very welcome to them, please let me know.
 
chiques chicks said:
Quote: they can break necks when they jump, but my experience was that it happened to little to worry about,
if you keep a schedule of tending to them, I do not mean time frame, it is how you do it...if something is out of place they will know that and spook easily..
y belief is that quail are not as fragile as most think they are...mine went thru some nasty winters with nothing more then plastic cover
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