It's getting cold!
And every time it rained, water got inside the quail green house which made the floor damp. This wasn't ideal!! We can't have damp quail house!
So we got a big sheet of plastic and covered the whole floor. We then put a couple of polystyrene boards on top of it for extra insulation, and covered it with a generous amount of saw dust and straw. There is NO WAY the water should get in.
The qrazy quail have 2 polystyrene boxes as houses, which they seem to use for egg laying.
We got them an early Christmas tree and other shrubs. Hopefully this will improve the "micro climate" inside the house. (As long as they don't trash the plants!).
After we put the polystyrene houses in, I started hearing a loud hammering noise. I assumed it was our neighbour working in the garden or something. One day I spotted Zebedee pecking on the wall of the polystyrene houses!!!! She even looked like she was EATING the polystyrene!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT GOOD!
So far everyone seems quite happy, and I haven't seen any abnormal droppings, so I'm hoping it's all ok. To prevent this, I strapped some cuttlefish bones onto the wall. They always had them in the house but they never took any interest in pecking them, but now, they LOVE IT!!! I now hear the hammering noise, and that's the quail, pecking on the cuttlefish bones. Problem solved.
Warm & dry house = happy quail.
Even though the days are getting shorter, we are getting 4 eggs a day. We would like them to stop laying soon, so they can have a rest and live longer....
