Quail Tractors?!

[313759]

I just lost all of my bobwhites and gambles to a raccoon a few days ago, and figured that the pen I used wasn't good enough for some quail that I want to get soon. I want to get coturnix quail and I was wondering, how do you build a quail tractor? Could you guy's post pictures of your quail tractors? Which design would you prefer?

 

[313759]

Is a quail tractor the best way to go?

 

[MESOMEGUY]

You will hear mixed reviews from quail tractors. Depends on your area, weather, feed, tractor design, etc. I keep quail in tractors on 1/2" wire, on the ground so coons can't pull them through the bottom wire. I lost rabbits as a kid and could never understand how the coons chewed through the 1/2" wire bottom. As and adult I realized they got a hold of the rabbit fir/foot and made the hole by pulling through. So I keep cages on ground. Because they are on ground I feed a diet with diatomaceous earth from Modesto Milling (My local mill). I've been doing this for 7mo. no problems in snow-107 degree I still get 11 eggs every day from 12 birds. I was so encouraged with the results from my tractor testing I just hatched 50+ chicks and ordered several hundred more eggs from Robby at JMF and plan to begin a layer flock. My property is clay/sand/silt and when hosed/hard watered the manure quickly dissolves. Grasses are greener, apples bigger, I don't understand why more people don't do it. And yes I have coons, opossum, bobcats, big cats, neighbor cats, wandering dogs and random kids up to no good walking by my yard with no major problem yet. Just dog digging next to tractor with no death. I wake up in morning hose down cage, move it over, water/feed and come back at night for eggs.

 

[James the Bald]

Here is a post by one former member who kept his quail in tractors.