Masaj Mahrhad
In the Brooder
- May 25, 2023
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This chicken coop was gifted to me by my parents, because I am incubating 32 eggs which will hatch soon. But I don’t trust coop, because it sits on the ground level, and predator critters can easily dig under the fence and attack them. It has a ramp and a roosting house above ground, but the quails do not climb up there like chickens do.
So they are still easy prey for intruders.
Not only that, but it is really difficult to crawl into this coop to recover my quails’ eggs when they lay them in the dirt. A friend of mine put new quails in her chicken coop, and they were killed by raccoons on the first night, because they didn’t roost up with the chickens.
I already have a homemade quail hutch that’s 3x2x3. It has screens on the sides and bottom. It’s secured with a padlock and no predators get in.
With this said, can I trust this chicken coop to protect my quails overnight? Or should I just sell it, and build a 2nd quail hutch?
So they are still easy prey for intruders.
Not only that, but it is really difficult to crawl into this coop to recover my quails’ eggs when they lay them in the dirt. A friend of mine put new quails in her chicken coop, and they were killed by raccoons on the first night, because they didn’t roost up with the chickens.
I already have a homemade quail hutch that’s 3x2x3. It has screens on the sides and bottom. It’s secured with a padlock and no predators get in.
With this said, can I trust this chicken coop to protect my quails overnight? Or should I just sell it, and build a 2nd quail hutch?