Quail Coops

[Quailobsessed]

This is nice. Where did you get the polls to make the arch? I've seen this done with the cattle panels but I like this idea. Did you bend them yourself?

They were just spare pieces of flexible conduit from the garage. I just duct taped them to some star pickets

 

[LakeBird]

Here's a pic from December after our snow storm. This is both pens next to each other

Do you have some type of heating system under your coop? Wondering if quails need to heat in cold weather.

 

[Nabiki]

Do you have some type of heating system under your coop? Wondering if quails need to heat in cold weather.

Coturnix quail are quite cold hardy. As long as they are dry and have shelter, they are fine in most winter weather.

 

[NY Coturnix]

Do you have some type of heating system under your coop? Wondering if quails need to heat in cold weather.

I wrapped the bottom with plastic and then put heat lamps underneath. As Nabiki said quail are pretty tough little birds. I also attached some plastic to the front that I found wasn't the best idea as it didn't allow for ventilation and I ended up with a lot of frozen condensation on the inside. This winter I plan to wrap the bottom again but I'm going to replace the wood inside "walls" with some leftover hardware cloth so the the heat lamps will heat in the pens and hopefully more than one pen. Also hoping this will help with the water freezing. It gets rough swapping out frozen solid waterers twice a day. Big thing is keep then dry and having a place where they can get out of the wind.

 

[WIchickMama]

so entertaining the idea of adding quail to our small homestead-i don't want to hijack this thread at all but how much room do they need? I think that I have enough stuff here to build them something but didn't know how much room or what they need. thanks

 

[WIchickMama]

so you can have a ground shelter, you don't need to have a wire bottom or is that best? Looks like there was both in this thread so just curious
I am not too worried about cleaning up after them, I spot clean the chicken coop daily so I would just add this into the routine.

 

[WIchickMama]

I keep mine on the ground. Personally, I don't like wire bottom cages because it hurts their feet, but a lot of people use them. If you do use wire bottom, make sure they have dirt baths and ways to get off of the wire to rest their feet.

I only ask bc we do get snow here and want them comfortable. I would prefer not to do the wire. thanks for the help