Rant about Blood Thirsty Quail

[Muppets]

Hi Nabiki,
Thankyou for replying!! .
OK 1 male to 5 females ,
Re predators, I live in New Zealand, we don't have as many predators here as the USA. But we do have rats, stoats and wild cats where i live.
The tunnel thing will be wild cat proof but possibly not stoats or rats , but I've never shot and I don't allow anyone to shoot wild cats on my property because they are needed to kill rats stoats etc .
Reading those articles u linked is scary , especially considering I have free range chickens and chickens can carry diseases that kill quail .
Now my imagined quail pens are going to have to be built west of the chickens , ( has anyone else with free range chickens noticed they don't go west forageing ? Maybe my chickens are just weird lol )

 

[Nabiki]

Hi Nabiki,
Thankyou for replying!! .
OK 1 male to 5 females ,
Re predators, I live in New Zealand, we don't have as many predators here as the USA. But we do have rats, stoats and wild cats where i live.
The tunnel thing will be wild cat proof but possibly not stoats or rats , but I've never shot and I don't allow anyone to shoot wild cats on my property because they are needed to kill rats stoats etc .
Reading those articles u linked is scary , especially considering I have free range chickens and chickens can carry diseases that kill quail .
Now my imagined quail pens are going to have to be built west of the chickens , ( has anyone else with free range chickens noticed they don't go west forageing ? Maybe my chickens are just weird lol )

When I was in New Zealand a few years ago (okay more like 6 or 7) there were California quail all over the place.

Rats, cats, and stoats will all happily eat quail, so you will definitely want to take that into account.