Quail in the tiny coops w/the chickens at nite.

[denisesoderlind]

Is it possible?

 

[CoturnixComplex]

Like, in the same one as the chickens?

People have had success with all sorts of setups but I would not advise it.

There is the issue of different diets, disease transmission (common for quail to be struck down by things the chickens carry and fight off but pass along to them), and I can't imagine with that cramped quarters there wouldn't be chickens pecking and killing them too.

If anyone *has* done this successfully feel free to chime in.

 

[Alaskan]

I have brooded chicks and quail together for a bit... but they really can't live together once grown.


That is a very tiny coop... if you could train the quail to get up and down the ramp... maybe make that a quail only house... and build something bigger for the chickens.

Quail also have VERY stinky poo, way more stinky than chicken.

 

[denisesoderlind]

There are four in each coop. They are out by 8 thirty am and go in when they roost about 8pm.
We have hawks so the chickens have the side trees and fence and the coops at nite to protect them.
And they watch good.

 

[denisesoderlind]

I also put on the gloves and get every piece of poop out of those coops every day. Then add some fresh hay. I am thinking of changing to alfalfa so they can eat it better.
The hens won't lay until after I clean. Very spoiled.

 

[denisesoderlind]

I have brooded chicks and quail together for a bit... but they really can't live together once grown.


That is a very tiny coop... if you could train the quail to get up and down the ramp... maybe make that a quail only house... and build something bigger for the chickens.

Quail also have VERY stinky poo, way more stinky than chicken.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

 

[Fishkeeper]

The chickens and quail shouldn't have access to each other, and that coop looks very small for four chickens. How big is it?

 

[denisesoderlind]

Lolol. I have raised pigs. So I'm fine with that. I have seen the Quail with Parrots so that's why I asked.
My hens would not give up their nesting in

those coops. It would disrupt. Even one Rooster is making nests.

 

[denisesoderlind]

The chickens and quail shouldn't have access to each other, and that coop looks very small for four chickens. How big is it?