New DIY Quail Brooder With Automatic Waterer And Feeders
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มี.ค. 2019
- Check out our new DIY Quail brooder! It features 1/4 inch mesh to let the waste fall through to 2 trays below that are sealed with Flex Seal. We have also designed 2 food hoppers, an automatic watering system, and attached 2 heat lamps to allow the quail chicks a heat gradient.
I will put links below to the mesh, Flex Seal, food hoppers, tubing, float valve, and water nipples. Thanks for watching Animal Man Survivor, and good luck with your Quail!
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Thanks for the video, good build out!
Really well thought out design. I will be incorporation your feeder and water design in my upcoming Quail cages build. Thank you very much for sharing your brilliance.
Just brilliant !!!
Excellent and practical concept and application.
Thanks Richard!
Nice setup
1/4 inch mesh is a mistake.
I'm sorry. You'll see why..
Very cleverly designed 👍. The adjustable water height is brilliant, as well as the feeder design. I wonder though, won’t the water in the pipe with the nipples get heated by the proximity of the lamps? And is there a reason you don’t use the little water/nipple cups? Seems like those would be less messy. Would reflectix along the back and side plywood to distribute the heat more evenly be a bad idea? I’m torn between the rubber coating you used on your trays vs lining with sheet metal, but I’m guessing the rubber might be more cost efficient. I’d love to see a little more detail on your feeder construction as well as the water connection between the tubing and pvc if/when you had time.
I’ve decided on raising quail only at the moment for two reasons, 1. I live in Texas so I’m concerned about care for rabbits in the summer, and 2. I haven’t convinced myself that I could kill the cute fluffy things. Call me a snowflake but I was not raised on a farm, nor have I hunted so I haven’t been exposed to those things. Fish and birds, I’m okay with, but I seem to have a problem with mammals in general. I think because their eyes look like ours. I know that would change in a survival situation though.
Anyway, I’ve decided on three outside cages measuring 2ft x 8ft, each with one partition creating two 4ft. breeding/laying sections per cage. Each section will also have about a 16in. X 24in. enclosed sand/nesting area. I’m thinking 10 hens to 2 roosters per section for two of the cages which gives me 40 breeders and I’ll use the third cage as the grow out for meat and/or selling. I’m looking at growing sunflowers and any other grain/seeds as well as a mealworm farm because, if it’s possible I want to eliminate dependence on the store bought feed.
Thank you for sharing! I will definitely use the links you provide for things I can use in my build. Please link the little water cups though, as I think I prefer those.
Cheers from Texas. Have a great weekend.
Edit: did you use 1/4 in. mesh for your adult cages?
Hi Fred! Thanks for watching, and for all of the comments and questions. I have used white pvc pipe for water reservoirs on a "quail tractor" (like a chicken tractor, but for quail) that we built a few years ago and the water cups were attached to the pvc pipe. I chose the white pvc because the white would reflect heat and sunlight instead of absorbing it, keeping the water cooler. This worked great, and I expect the same outcome using the white pvc in this brooder design.
What did not work well with the quails were those water cups. The quail make a HUGE mess with their water and if you give them the cups or a water bowl they splash it around everywhere and fling it with their beaks. It is a huge mess and wasteful. The quail are not that bright, and a few got so wet from this that their feathers got matted down which is bad because they have trouble keeping warm. I would advise you to keep away from the cups, but if you are dead set on them I will give you a link to the exact ones I used:
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The nipples are still somewhat messy but a huge improvement over the water cups or a water bowl, or even the typical chick waterers with the round holes for them to put their heads through.
In my opinion, putting anything reflective along the plywood is unnecessary and will prevent as much of a heat gradient inside the brooder, like I talked about in the video. It is important for the chicks to be able to choose how warm they want to be. If you watch your chicks, you will know what to do. If they are all constantly huddled in a pile under the heat light, that means you brooder is too cold. If the chicks are always in the corners away from the heat, that means your brooder is too hot. You can adjust this 2 ways: 1- have a selection of different wattage bulbs or ceramic heat emitters, or 2- buy an extension cord with a built in dimmer switch. I actually couldn't find any on Amazon, but I bought mine at Home Depot.
For the connection where the tubing attaches to the pvc pipe, all I did was take a blue water nipple, which is the kind I use for my larger animals like rabbits, and unscrew the two parts of it and use the part that attaches to the tubing. The red nipples come apart as well. I just drilled a hole into the pvc, threaded in the water nipple half, and ran a bead of silicone around it. Then the tubing attached just like it attaches to the nipples. Very simple.
I wouldn't bother with nesting boxes as the quail won't lay eggs in them. They are very different than chickens in this regard. Quail just walk along and drop eggs wherever they happen to be at the time, its actually quite comical. If you want them to have a shelter area, that is one thing, but the shelter is just one more thing to have to keep clean, and quail are not clean!
Quail chicks get 1/4 inch mesh, and once they are 6 weeks old they graduate to 1/2 inch mesh.
Good luck to you, and it's great you are wanting to do this! If you have any more questions, feel free to ask!
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Thank you for the detailed reply! I was just browsing your channel, and wow do you have an amazing variety of content. You should have way more subscribers...you’re like a one stop shop for useful knowledge! How’s the lasagna garden coming?
There’s a couple reasons I want an enclosed sand box area in my cages. Mine will be outside, so an enclosure will give them extra protection against bad weather and a possible predator breach. Also, mine won’t have the sloped egg “dispenser” and according to “Slightly Rednecked” his quail not only enjoy bathing in the sand, they will lay most of their eggs in it.
I’m impatiently waiting for some decent weather so I can get started on the build.
In the meantime, I’m looking forward to browsing all of your other content 🙂. I just saw your iguana...super cool!
@@animalmansurvivor1452 Did the poop get stuck in the smaller mesh?
is there any problem with mold growth in water bucket/tubes? do you use apple cider vinegar in water? thanks
Hi Carol, as far as I can tell, it isn't an issue. I have been using systems like this for years and never had any problems.
Great Design, You move WAY Too much when filming, I'm motion sick