Chaoth
Chirping
- May 19, 2019
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Hello, everyone!
I currently have 6 chickens (all silkies, the mama and her 5 chicks who are nearly grown now) but we want to switch out from chickens to quail in the near future. We are planning to give our current chickens to good homes once we find them, and we want to re-use their coop area to raise quails instead.
What kind of prep would we need to do? I've heard quails and chickens cannot be kept in the same area due to disease. Would mites effect that, too? ((My chickens picked up mites when we were at a new house with them for ~2 months, and we're trying to treat them all now, since we only noticed once we got home with them)).
My dad is very sweet, and he wants to make sure all of his possible baby quail are safe and healthy. The coop itself has chicken fencing on all four sides, which are buried around half a foot underground, and chicken fencing over the top. It's more than 6 feet tall, because my 6'4" brother can walk into the coop yard without hitting his head on the fencing. We've never raised quails before, but my dad has wanted to for as long as I can remember.
Thank you so much in advance!
I currently have 6 chickens (all silkies, the mama and her 5 chicks who are nearly grown now) but we want to switch out from chickens to quail in the near future. We are planning to give our current chickens to good homes once we find them, and we want to re-use their coop area to raise quails instead.
What kind of prep would we need to do? I've heard quails and chickens cannot be kept in the same area due to disease. Would mites effect that, too? ((My chickens picked up mites when we were at a new house with them for ~2 months, and we're trying to treat them all now, since we only noticed once we got home with them)).
My dad is very sweet, and he wants to make sure all of his possible baby quail are safe and healthy. The coop itself has chicken fencing on all four sides, which are buried around half a foot underground, and chicken fencing over the top. It's more than 6 feet tall, because my 6'4" brother can walk into the coop yard without hitting his head on the fencing. We've never raised quails before, but my dad has wanted to for as long as I can remember.
Thank you so much in advance!