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by Wagonmaster » Thu May 31, 2007 10:08 am
That is a thing of beauty. I would put a nipple water system in, that is the best way I have found to keep quail healthy. No poop in the water. And if you have a hose run out to the johnny house the whole watering system is just automatic.
I can tell you one problem you are going to have long term though. After you have run a bunch of bags of feed through those birds, the end result will build up pretty good under the hardware cloth floor. It will reach the level of the hardware cloth, and then you have defeated the whole idea of a hardware cloth floor, which is to keep the poop away from the birds. My johnny house is smaller than yours, and every couple of years I have to pick it up with a bobcat and clean out under it. You might try to think how you are going to deal with that. It is a long term issue, takes a couple of years to become a problem, but eventually, it will.