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I'd love to see pics of your quail using the waterers and feeders. Are your cages going to be "outside" as in accessable to predators, even in the breeze way? You might want to cover where your quail will be sticking their heads out of their cages to eat and drink. Predators are opportunistic and a snack of quail head would be tasty. I had a road runner try to pull one of my quail out by her wing through 1/2X1 wire. If she had been able to get her head out it would have been missing.Hello all,
Sorry it's been a while, I was (and still am) sick... really sick... been in bed for 4 days (impossible for me as I am always up and working... intense vomiting and diarrhea with 102+ fever... lost over 20 pounds! It looks like I can insert some photos so I will try... not much I can add narrative wise as I am still just hanging on to be sitting up ... sorry...
Let's see how may photos I can insert:
Great! They're here!
These are of the feeders:
The white parts are 2" PVC plumbing pipe and fittings (Shortened T and cap couplings to fit the door mount. The clear parts are custom vacuum formed parts (I have a complete shop specializing in plastic fabrication with two vacuum formers)...
Let's see if I can add more!
Here are the auto waterers (Great watching the quail use them but I haven't taken photos yet... both the feeders and waterers are outside the cages providing more floor space... There's no food waste at all as the quail really need to put their heads in deep to get the food. any shaking of their heads still doesn't throw food outside.
The rectangular object in the middle of the water trough is the float connected to a brass rod that connects to the valve. This can be used with gravity fed OR direct hook up to a hose!
OK... so far so good... Here are some photos of my pen set up... The smaller cages to the left are for breeder quads, the longer cages to the right are grow out... only the top half is completed so far... there will still be four more cages added to the bottom. the whole thing is on ball bearing rubber wheels in a breezeway and able to roll out onto our back porch... shaded So far, its been way hotter in the breezeway than the porch! TOTAL SURPRISE! We also have rabbits and know they are very sensitive to heat...
How hot is "Too hot" for Coturnix quail? We get concerned about 90+, but we are also influenced by how little heat our rabbits can take? Any advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated! Summers here can easily reach 105+
Thanks!
Richard
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I live in "The Valley of the Sun" and we get temps past 110 for highs for a good three months a summer or more and lows in the 90s. My quail do fine on wire as long as they have ventilation, shade and terracotta pans of water to wade in to cool off in if the temps are going to be less than 110F. If it's going to be hotter than that I will also put the misters on from 2pm until 5-ish in addition to the pans of water. I try not to coddle them by putting the misters on when it's not too hot. I would rather they acclimate to the heat in case something happens to the misters or I am not there to turn them on when it gets to the higher temps. I've not lost any quail to the heat yet, but have lost chickens and the chickens also have pans of water plus the cool ground and not wire like the quail. I'd say that coturnix are more adaptable than chickens when it comes to heat when they get the chance to get acclimated to it. It's 92 degrees this evening and my quail are not even panting.CotQuail:
THAT... Is the most awesome design I've seen in a long time! Beautiful lines, simple and it makes all the sense in the world....
Are you ok if I take my inspiration from you to develop a plastic version? Of course, it will be a while... I am still sick! (Starting to get nervous about it... stomach cramps have subsided and fever is gone but I still have diarrhea and I am not one to get sick... hardly ever! (Of course Tresa tells me this is my body complaining about working all the time... lol! (she could be right)...
Just got a new client project and I didn't finish the home brewed evaporative cooler I began before I got sick... Cooling the animals? Ha! It's our turn!
The vertical garden? Yes, it is... Horizontal tubes that will be fed by a large aquarium pump in a 700 gallon partially submerged fish tank (raising catfish)... The fish wastes feed the plants (150 to 200 2" basket pots hanging in holes along the top of the pipes... the water fills the pipes just enough to wet the hanging roots from the pots but not enough to drown the roots... travels to the other side, and then drops down back into the fish tank ("Aquaponics")
Still wondering about actual #s regarding quail and heat and danger levels.... We have rabbits and at 85 degrees, for sustained time, the buck can go sterile for up to 90 days... at 90 degrees, we're looking at possible fatalities, definitely at over 100 degrees... Our quail have been in the shade with osculating fans in 90 to 95+ degrees, today is supposed to be 105 and our august heat waves can be over 100+ for days on end... We're giving them frozen treats in glass bowls, the have sand boxes, constant water... but still wondering about any specific temp guides...
I've got to be short here... so much to catch up on... I'm going to throw in some photos to share...
Creative poop tray cleaning? Working on that... A very small autonomous robot (miniature tank tread/bomb disposal type), silicone cover to protect from additional bird droppings. It has an IR system (cheap) that turns it around when it reaches an edge of the pan. then turns and continues... Kind of like one of those auto vacuum robots.... It can hold up to two BIC lighters and blasts/incinerates anything in it's path (can't use wood shavings with it)....
Would you like one?
Ha! So would I!!!!!!! (Oh wait, my sense of humor is coming back... I think I'm getting better!
OK... just going to add some photos... Indoor tank system is an active aquaponics (with highly filtered (own design) back up) system that will become our Tilaplia breeder tanks.