Backyard Quail Pens And Quail Housing
Everyone s needs are a bit different so i realize that one size does not fit all when it comes to quail housing.
Backyard quail pens and quail housing. You can raise them in garages on your porch or in your backyard. Open on two sides with two solid walls protecting birds from prevailing wind and rain. Many of the commercially available strains including the pharaoh and jumbo bobwhite have been selected for specific marketing traits such as meat production egg production or appearance.
You can keep them in cages pens rabbit h utches or even aviary style. Quail can go from hatch to butcher weight in 6 weeks. I mainly do it because it is the highest form of farming my city allows on my small lot.
One thing for sure most quail hobbyist will have a different point of view. Jan 9 2020 what are the best housing options for quails. Still features of different designs can be utilized in different designs.
The housing must be 100 dry at all times 100 roof coverage with adequate overhang. See more ideas about quail quail coop raising quail. When i first started raising quail i lived in a two bedroom apartment before upgrading to a 5 acre homestead in florida.
Sort by reaction score. But no matter how you keep them put a lot of thought into keeping them secure from predators. This board will give you some ideas and for all you quail lovers out there please comment on what worked for you and what did not.
The open sides need mesh of about 13 mm x 13 mm aperture as cats would put their claws through the holes if it is larger and kill the quail. During that time they eat much less than the average meat chicken. A little more work and a closer watch would follow in a process called brooding to make sure that quail chicks are kept within safe and controlled quail housing.
Quail are the perfect alternative to chickens for the urban homesteaders. Housing indoors or outdoors. By backyard quail on november 12 2017 january 23 2018 in raising breeding and brooding raising quail in your backyard can be both fun and profitable.
Quail pens and housing with all the care entailed by incubation and hatching a quail breeder would certainly want to see those quail chicks survive through maturity. Five subspecies of bobwhite quail are found in the u s the eastern plains masked texas and florida bobwhite and other well known species include the button japanese and california quail. By backyard quail on june 30 2019 june 25 2019 in coops pens and cages setup eggs and meat incubation raising breeding and brooding we are proud to be giving away quail notes by garry higgins.
Your quail will need to be kept safe secure and dry at all times. You can even keep them in small chicken coops with an attached run. New posts new threads active threads.
