Quail coop (Updated with new cage pics!)

[call ducks]

how many sheets for (playwood?) did you use to build it?

 

[macnugget]

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You pack them in pretty tight.


Its a general guideline (lemme stress GENERAL and GUIDLINE) 1sq ft per bird for COTURNIX quail. As mentioned earlier bobs/ valleys/ gambels/ mtns will roost. coturnix and buttons generally do not. Coturnix as usually do better in a pen with less flight space.... It makes them injuring themselves harder if they dont have enough room to flush and bounce off the ceiling... Also do not use the 1/4 in hardware cloth as a bottom-- the feces will not fall thru and thereby make you the official poop scooper while trying to retain your birds.

They got plenty of room and never have a problem.

 

[JJMR794]

I did say general and guideline

..... I have more than 1 coturnix pen that exceeds 1 sq ft per bird with no problems too.... depends on the birds really.

 

[Colonel77]

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I used all scrap lumber I had already from various other projects. I imagine it was less than a full sheet in total though.

 

[call ducks]

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I used all scrap lumber I had already from various other projects. I imagine it was less than a full sheet in total though.

ok , i tought it would take less then a sheet