quail pics and cages

[waterdog]

We have tried pairs, trios, and colonies and have had the best fertitilty with pairs and trios.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Do you think it's better or worse to have them in Trios or Colonies?

I think a lot of people that have 'breeders' do keep them in pairs, but a group of quail is called a 'covey'

Haha - Oopsy -

 

[emvickrey]

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I know what you mean. Me too. Ours are just in cages, no house. I have 1 pen that has a wall in the middle that separates my breeders. The other cages are for the ones I hatch out getting fattened up for processing day. I really don't give them alot of room for exercise since I want them fat and fast. I keep them loaded up with grower feed and scratch and fresh water everyday. They get covered up at night to keep that darn cat away. I have a stray cat that was killing them off but I fixed that problem and my dog is working on getting rid of the cat. She is always just a little too late and the cat is gone by the time she gets to where it was. Slow poke. Anyway. I do have a grow pen and when they move from the grow pen they go in a cage. Each batch is separated because they like to kill each other. They seem to do better if not mixed with different hatches. I have some in the house I brought in because they got pecked at and some Bob Whites in here that don't seem to be able to handle the outdoors even with a heat lamp. There are only 10 left and I'm afraid to put them in with the older ones in the grow pen for fear they will get killed and the grow pen has enough as it is.

As I empty cages from processing, I move more into them to give more room for the growing birds. They grow and their space gets smaller.

BTW. All our pens have been moved in the shed for the winter out of the elements and they get covered up at night. For warmth and mostly to keep the cat from getting to them. The grow pen has heat lamps and the breeders have a florescent light over their pen. Which by the way I need to get out there and turn off and make my rounds for the night.

 

[Lesalynn]

Same here. Mine are in hanging cages. Emvickerey, I have my breeder cage divided that very same way.

And my other cage is for growing out til freezer day. Then in comes another batch from the brooder.

Seems like I'm always rotating, lol. I really do like my hanging cages, tho. That way my dogs can't terrorize them through the wire. I'm hoping I can get my fiance to build me at least two more before spring. Come to think of it, I think I need 2 or three more brooders, too.

I plan on doing some MAJOR incubating in a few months.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Mine were in cages but the rats figured out how to get in them no matter what I did. So they all moved into fort knox. But I'll be making some like my dove cages for them by spring so they'll all be back in individual color cages

Actually thought about making the quails' cages 'below' the doves' cages so I don't have to make a whole new frame...we'll see

 

[pookiegoldman]

This is our quail house. We bought one of those metal carports and 3/4 enclosed it, with (lawnmower) drive-through doors. The dimensions are 12 x 21, with four 10' x 3' cages along the long sides.

We built the floors on a few degrees incline, so that the eggs roll out, right under the feed troughs.

 

[emvickrey]

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I love that idea for feeders. I won't be incubating any till all these are gone and then I'll probably wait till spring. Sell a bunck of chicks at the auction. Thats where we got some of our gunnea is as small chicks at the auction for a buck a piece.

I went out to finish closing up the breeders and getting the eggs and I checked in the grower and all the manchurens and a & m's where beat up and bleeding so I stuffed them in my coat pockets and inside we went I cleaned them up and put them in the aquarium with the others I found beat up earlier. Now it's just jumbo's in there. I think they wanted them out. So they'll have to have a cage of their own when they heal up. I had to cull one it was so damaged. They sure can be some mean little buggars.

 

[emvickrey]

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I have 4 and 5 hens to a roo. Which I have1 pen of Jumbo Browns and 1 of Manchurens. I plan to have he same with the Texas A & M as soon as I figure out which are roos and which are hens. I have great fertility.

 

[emvickrey]

This is looking inside the side of the grow pen

By emvickrey at 2010-10-18
My breeders pen

By emvickrey at 2010-10-08
This is the divider wall in the grow pen. The little A & M is sitting on the ledge of the wall watching the others in the other side.

By emvickrey at 2010-10-08
Looking down inside one side of the grow pen

By emvickrey at 2010-10-08
This is the grow pen just after it was built. It may still be lacking some wire but you get the general idea.

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Lok past the pen and you can see the quail cages on the wall of the shed. That is thee summer home. They are under the roof and dn't even get wet when it does rain.
This is one of the aquariums I use as brooders

By emvickrey at 2010-10-09
Bob White

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Manchurens

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Jumbo Browns

By emvickrey at 2010-10-22

Another bunch of babies

By emvickrey at 2010-10-18
Cage full of BW's

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