The QUAIL stopped Laying EGGS! Will THIS be the ANSWER to our Problem?
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- The quail have completely stopped laying eggs. Hopefully todays project will solve that problem.
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In the Spring, you should just be able to layer the dark tarp right over the top of the clear, since it's a bit longer, it will reach down further on the sides to screw it into the wood, then next Winter just remove the dark one, and the clear is already set
You read my mind! 😁
I had the same idea. One less thing to store.
The dark one could be adjusted in the summer depending on how hot things are covering whole or a only a portion of the coop.
Yes would that work. Just add the other tarp on top of the clear one
There's always shade cloth too. Different degrees of shade, and could be doubled up if wanted. Then it's still shaded, but not so dark as with a tarp.
I raised my quail in a large coop with no floor. In the winter I piled a bunch of fluffed up hay in there and they loved it. The would bury themselves in the hay when it was cold. I never lost one, no matter how cold it got.
Using a bunch of hay during the winter is a really good idea. 👍 A natural insulator for the birds.
You may find that it is better to have the light come on in the early morning rather then extend the daylight and quickly shut off. At least it works that way with chickens. Light coming on does't seem to bother them. However being light then suddenly going dark does not let them get ready for bedding down for the night. They are caught off guard not knowing when the dark of night is coming.
A huge difference in the lighting and appearance when the tarp was changed. You always come up with some amazing solutions to issues that arise with your projects. Hopefully you will get a good egg laying cycle this winter.
Vinal flooring will making a very big difference. We have it in our coop, love it. So easy to clean. String up holiday lights around the sides and door. It will give light and some heat. Love the clear tarp. Need one for a shorter high tunnel for spring and fall plants. Thanks for sharing. I think the quail will enjoy it. God bless and protect.
If you put an inexpensive peel and stick tile or linoleum down cleanup would be even easier and the plywood would last a long time I think some of the dollar stores sell both.
We did that in chicken coop and it made all the difference In cleanup
Great solution to the short tarp. 😊
Wow, what a transformation a tarp can make! I hope this is a good change for the birds. ❤
Looks great, one thing for sure is these quail at sooo much calmer than those that chased each other around and around and around ,,, and as always another great video
You should probably wear a dust mask when working with bird droppings to avoid a fungal infection in your lungs.
Yes. Histoplasmosis is no joke.
They know that
Obviously, they don’t but texasnurse is correct Histoplasmosis is no joke!
I 💯agree ❣️. My uncle died because he contracted a disease due to bird droppings.
We Love you Sarah and Kevin, please protect your lungs, it’s not worth the risk.
You are right there is a fungal infection called histo plasmosis and I and my sister had this as children going into my uncle's chicken pin and it can cause a lot of lung problems my sister actually got an Eye problem macular degeneration from it
When we lived in MO I had my quail in 8x4 in ground garden bed/runs. I rotated them through the beds that I planted with leafy greens. As the plants were spent the quail cleaned up the bed ready for re-seeding. I had greenhouse plastic over the beds in winter to keep the worst of the weather off. The quail were very happy and laid most of the year. I plan to do the same now that we have moved back to England.
God bless you both. The love of the Lord just shines right through everything you do. 🙏
I use a dawn to dusk timer. It lets you set 2,4, 6 hours after dusk so you don’t need to remember to turn on a light.
Wow this is so much better for them. So light and more natural for them.
I am very interested to know if your egg production increases. Great job and so glad it's working out so well to have them outside
I suspect that the spent shavings are a GREAT addition to the compost pile! Thanks, you two, and God bless!
What a huge difference the clear tarp made!
My daughter bought me these lights for my chicken coop. I love them. A great birthday present. lv and Prayers to all.
Something you could try…We use a cheap vinyl flooring on our coop floor. It protects the wood from moisture and rot. We also can roll it back up wash it if need be…although haven’t had the need to do that yet.
If you add big sand pits for them, most of your eggs will be laid in the pits. For your size area and quail qty I would suggest the concrete mixing trays at Lowes/HD. A mixture of 50/50 dirt/sand works best.
I raise quail in Aviaries, i recommend not letting the bedding get wet if you have many days of rain, as it will stink if it stays wet. I think you could put an awning on it to help prevent rain from getting in.
Would love it to see it at night with the light on!
If you're willing to consider Outdoor String Lights with remote they usually have the ability to schedule when the lights are turn on and off. Some have time limits such as 3, 5, 8 hours and others allow you to schedule the turn on and off time.
Hey. Just a heads up. My father was a heavy equipment operator and I was running a tractor by the time I was 12. A big safety thing he said to me is to always travel with the bucket low, not up high. Tip over hazard. I kinda cringe when I see you do that😢
Agreed! Bucket as low as is practical. Keep the center of gravity low especially with a load in the bucket!
I was taught this in tractor safety in 1980's. Absolutely accurate. Also, for the masses, no passengers without their own seats. If you roll over you CANNOT save the passenger(s). Too often people mow with child onboard the lap or wheelwell.
That was scary
That's the difference between day and night. 😂Looks great
I'm sure the quail will love all that light.
Once again, you taught me something I didn't know I needed to learn! May I also say that your production value is excellent. You take such care while filming and editing so that we see what you're doing and why. I know that takes a lot of your time. Thanks so much!
I watch Cog Hill Farm and in their chicken coops they lay down a sheet of inexpensive vinyl flooring down. They said it makes the coop so much easier to clean and change the shavings.
Love it! This is a perfect example of how to work smarter rather than harder and you both excel at this. Well done!
You should do like I did with my chicken house and cover the whole floor with epdm liner. It makes cleaning out so much easier and you don’t have to worry about your floor rotting out
Our area in the barn where our quail are is dark. A string of Christmas lights does the trick and they are laying!!
Nice job my friends,,I can tell you care deeply for your animals,,,that means you care more for humanity 👍that's what we all should be striving for.
You two have a beautiful 😍❤farm and home.
Tractor supply has a bedding called pelletized horse bedding. Is compressed untreated pine. It looks like pelletized food. Once the pellets get wet it turns into sawdust irs cheap and clean. I've started using it with my chickens...pretty much all Mt animals and I have my quail in a coop on the ground
I don't know if this would apply to quail or not. I've always heard that if you are extending day length with artificial light you should have the lights come on before dawn rather than after dark. The birds use the dimming twilight to find where they are going to settle / roost for the night. If the light goes off suddenly they are left in the dark without being able to see where to bed down.
You'll definitely get more eggs. I have power at hutches and use a string of LED Christmas lights and get more eggs than I have layers every day. I set timer to come on 6-7am and 5-9pm to give them 14 hours of light. If the clear tarp doesn't get destroyed by UV you can just lay the dark one over it in spring.
Like the new look of the quail coop.
I love how you two always work together!! What a great example of teamwork!!
To save time, when you change the tarp in the spring, could you put the dark one on top of the clear? This way you would only have to take off/put on the dark one. I don’t know how much time this would save or if it would be too warm with both tarps on. Just a thought.
I was going to suggest the same thing! Kinda like shade cloth for the high tunnel(quail)!
Same same 😄
I was thinking the same thing. It certainly would streamline the process twice a year.
buddy of mine uses a big shop vac to clean out his coops that way u dont have to move the birds out, he said by the time he moved the birds out he could of had the floor vac out works good he said
That's great looks so much better blessings 🎉🎉🎉
The two of you can figure out everything so well. There is a lot of common sense in what you do. Thank you so much for all you share in your posts.
Excellent information. Very happy it's working out for you guys.
Awesome idea with the screws & pair cord!!!
🙏👍🌻
Another informative video, Take care and God's Blessings
The best litter I found for quail was hemp shavings. They composted perfectly.
I love watching you two work together! You and Ruth Zimmerman just bless my soul every week ! Thanks
Yall can put down vinyl flooring to protect the plywood flooring. I did that for my chicken coop. Works really well. Love your videos. God bless yall!
You folks do great at adjusting on the fly. Your projects are always interesting as you seek efficient ways to care for the plants and animals.
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If you use supplemental light, your egg production will drop off from the norm substantially next season. I have been homesteading since 2011 and have learned this the hard way. Also your water barrel will act as a store of thermal energy when its cold if you put it inside the coop in the winter. And will be less likely to freeze if thats possible in your area.
We added wiggle wire track, use heavyweight white tarps with shade cloth over it in the summers
I use poly feed sacks cut open and duct tapped together to cover my wood chicken house floor. I lay down strips rather than one big tarp do it is easy to carefully pick up the tarps and dump into front end loader
I use bedding on top of the tarps. Very easy for me to clean the chicken house.
Very nice! I was wondering why you would have to change the tarp back to the dark next year. Why can't you use a shade cloth like you do in your greenhouse over the plastic to keep it cool, but still have maximum light? You wouldn't have to change out the tarp every season that way.
in winter or now, just add in some pine branches for hiding and heat conservation. Ive had quail a year now and just love em!! I made a green house for mine.
Thanks guys! 👋❤️🙏
Great video. Giving me lots of ideas (not only for quail) on this design and process. Thanks.
Looks great. Hope they love it.
1. Pretty dusty in there. You should be wearing a dust mask.
2. Leave the clear tarp on all year. In the summer just add the dark tarp over it, or better yet, add a shade cloth. Then when it gets this time of year again, just remove and stow the shade cloth. No need to put the clear tarp on over and over, year after year.
Good ☕️☕️ Morning Kevin & Sarah.❤️
Changing/cleaning their coop will prevent them from laying for 10 days.. also if something is frightening them at night they will stop laying.. I raise these quail and this has been my experience
Well done!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤
I would look into splicing a timer (like you want) between the battery and the light.
Good information, glad the process has worked.
Hello from Angola Indiana.😊
Great video Kevin! An idea for your ends, just build a square frame around each end, Same height and width as the enclosure. Then, mount a piece of metal conduit tubing across the top, and tape a plastic sheet to the conduit along an edge. Essentially you're making a simple "roller shade" like for a window, with plastic sheeting. Now if you want to open it up, just roll up the plastic, and if you want it closed, pull it down and hold the bottom down. If you want it to always look nice and neat, tape another piece of conduit to the bottom of the plastic, and it'll keep the bottom from wrinkling, and the weight hold it down by itself. I've made these with both plastic and metal conduit, whatever you have on hand will work, but the metal one works better for the top so it doesn't bow in the middle. Even then, you can keep a plastic one from bowing as much if you stuff a stick or a piece of wood inside. Good luck!
Wow a big difference.
Can you show us the light at night?
Thanks ❤
I’ve only used it 2 nights so far so the verdict is still out whether or not it is going to help. Hard to shoot video after dark but I will try to upload a photo to the community area of UA-cam at some point. - Kevin
I am in Sudbury, I Ontario
I would like to tell you that it would be easier if you made a little tiny house in there that they could be in and you wouldn’t have to pick them up. You could close them up at night. They would stay warmer in a little tiny house inside of their up off the ground All together. When you’re cleaning the coop, they would be all inside the house. You wouldn’t have to pick them up no stress and it will make it much easier for them to be in when it’s really cold you can close it and make them warmer from their own heat.
You all work so great together as a team. I love that
I love your quail content! Thank you so much! I'm hoping to implement this style of quail care near Lebanon.
If you put some cheap vinyl flooring down, it makes it easy enough to sweep with a broom. That works really good on my coop.
👍👍👍👍👍 ❤❤❤❤❤ still think vinyl on top of your wooden floor would have protected the wood and made it last longer, just my opinion
We like to use white tarps for our chicken tractors still provides shade and let’s a lot of light in all while reflecting heat. We noticed that the dark tarps radiate the heat inside so we don’t use them in the summer.
That's looks awesome guys god bless you job will done.
i got a similar solar light for my horse shelter, then realized the winds would break the light. I found a similar solar light with metal mounting brackets for the lights itself. I hope it works for you. your coops look fantastic.
When I added a light to our chicken coop, I put together a 12 volt timer, small 12 volt LiFePo battery, solar panel and 12 volt led light. The timer I use has multiple on-off settings. I set it to come shortly before sunset and go off after some time. I think the whole setup was under $100, and I can add more lights or other 12 volt items if needed.
I did this because, like you, I could not find a light that would come on at sunset and go aff after a couple of hours.
just a suggestion that might help, line the bottom of the pen with a tarp then put on the shavings, then all you'll have to do is pick up the corners of the tarp and dump in the tractor bucket instead of shoveling...
They are ground birds. This makes sense.
They do like sleeping up on a high perch. I even had a blind bird and the others coached her up on the perch every night.
What if you made sky lights?? Cut some holes in the dark tarp and layer the clear tarp. Then they can have light and shade. 😊
It looks great !
Hi, I used Christmas lights on my quail cages and a light plug timer that you would use if you leave your home and want it to look like someone is around. Worked really well it did. So this will work out. I have even used a rechargeable shop flashlight that had a hook on it worked good to for my chickens.
We built your hoop coop according to your video last year for our quail, and they have lived comfortably in it for a year and a half. :) Actually we've built five so far, we have chickens now too and plan on making one for rabbits as well! We put a clear tarp on the back when it gets cold, and sometimes during summer storms. We cover the back with shade cloth otherwise. Of course we had the SAME problem finding solar powered timed lights. We went with a decent solar panel, a good quality USB battery, and Christmas lights that stay on 24/7. (I also hook up a fan, a camera, and an aquarium heater for the water.) I'm still looking for an in-line USB Christmas light timer that doesn't need to be monitored every day!
We haven't had to scoop out bedding, we just add some wood chips every week or two and stir it up for them. It has stayed dry and fresh.
We have an open air coop for our chickens. It would be simple to modify this hoop coop using wiggle wire and channel, then pieces of plastic. It could be done within one hour.
Really enjoyed watching 👍👍
It’s amazing how much difference in the light that tarp makes! Love that solar light!
Looks great!
You both are willing to try NEW IDEAS to help your animals improve their lives and their productivity...! Hope this works out well...! God Bless, Shelly 👍❤👍
I am sure it will work and I like that set up.
I love the way you are improving life for the quail. I hated to see them in the wire cages. ☺️
The clear tarp should help allow them to lay better during the winter and early spring.
Will you also do for the chickens and ducks?
Your setup looks awesome I hope It works out for you
That new tarp really brightened up the hoop coop! Looked like a beautiful day to get your project done 😊
Now you need to find some tiny sunglasses for your little birds!
Awesome job!
Thanks...........
Hi Kevin & Sarah, I watched this ep. and was thinking about a little more shade for them, so if they want to get out of the straight sun they could. how about a piece of broad at the back of the coupe. My husband & I love watching Living Traditions Homestead. this is our first feedback though. Keep up the great work. See you on the TV.
I have a timer on my solar light for chickens. I set time to go on and off.
Great video,❤️🙏
Hey Y'all, Thank you so much for trying this!!! I love everything farm, garden, livestock, animals and homesteading. The One thing I have trouble with is rabbits, quail and other smaller animals in cages off the ground their entire lives. There is a big emphasis on cage free animal husbandry and that is why I find it difficult.
I see these quail in the hoop coupe and I am so relieved and feel so much better about it. Although they are still confined it is so so much better. There are some videos I do not watch on the many channels I follow. I never leave angry hurtful comments I simply go to another video.
I love how it turned out great video thank you so much God bless y'all stay safe bye for now Steven
Well done
I would leaclve this one on year round and just offer shade for them inside like short childrens folding tables you can even store styff on the tables. I do this in one of my pens over top of the duck water tray if i have to keep them cooped up for the day.
I was hoping to see the light in the evening/dark, but great video just the same!
I love the way y’all jumped in there and improvised with the new tarp, which, by the way, should DEFINITELY be the size that’s stated in it’s finished state! It’s one thing if you buy the tarp fabric and then have them finish it as an option but when it’s a pre-packaged item that says the tarp is a certain size THAT’S finished product! How else are you supposed to know what size to order? Even though you went ahead and used it, I’d still be contacting the company and I’d let my review state what you ran into. I buy nothing on Amazon without reading reviews and this is something I’D want to know if I was looking to buy a specific size ANYTHING! But great job, weaving in the wind…LOL Y’all got it done!😊
Yes please wear a mask when cleaning the coops.