Quail housing. Am I missing somthing?

[happyhensny]

Please use 1/2" or smaller hardware cloth all around. My 11 yr old DD just lost ALL of her A & M's by a Possum (we found it under the EMPTY rabbit hutch the next night). They were in a rabbit hutch with 1/2" X 1" wire floor and 1" square wire sides. It pulled them right through the wire. A terrible thing to see happen. So, regardless of what you own, the suffering of the birds alone hopefully will help you to decide on a small wire enclosure.

 

[galanie]

Not to beat this horse after he's dead and then some, 1/2" hardware cloth is a safe bet.

 

[mhwc56]

Outside in a pen on the ground OR in a raised cage ANYTHING smaller than 1/2 X 1/2 inch wire is too large a spacing to protect Quail. Possum and coon and rats and snakes will all take advantage of the spacing to do such things as eat off legs or heads or whole birds.
NO ONE is trying to anger you. We are all speaking from EXPERIENCE on this wire spacing topic and let me just say...it is NOT GOOD to go out on a morning to tend the birds and find that a possum,etc has hooked a quail's head thru the wire while it's sleeping with it's shoulder/head resting up against the fencing and bitten off the head ,leaving a bloodied body behind...........uhuh.... NOT a great way to greet the day !

 

[Wynette]

Folks, I've spent considerable time cleaning up this thread; do not post if you can't do so in a helpful way. The OP is asking for feeback - not ridicule.

Many thanks to those of you who gave good/helpful information in a considerate way.

 

[Silkie-Feet]

To everyone out there, I personally put them in the coop every afternoon. So nothing can eat them threw the wire, and they CAN'T GET OUT! I don't see a problem here but o'well if somthing happens yall can all say "i told you so" . then I would fix the wire, until then " you shouldn't fix somthing that's not broken"

 

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[Husky Father]

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