New Digs!

Today I moved the quail to their new cage.  They had a little trouble walking on the wire at first.  However, they adapted pretty well.  I think this will help keep them a bit cleaner in the long run.  I use corn cob bedding for them.  The information that I researched said that hard wood bedding is bad for their eyes, cedar is poisonous, and the paper stuff they sell is a bit of a pain.  Besides, I can use the droppings for fertilizer because the corn cob is biodegradable. 

 

In a couple of weeks I will have decided who will go into two different groups of four and put four in each cage.  Although, if the one cage is big enough and nobody fights, I'll keep them all together.  I have also started cataloging some of them by taking pictures.  The white ones now all look a bit different from each other.  I have named the brown one "Jimmi".  We are pretty sure he is a boy because of his coloring.  Th

e two golden ones are "Buckwheat" and "QT Pie".  I think Buckwheat is a boy.  His has some reddish feathers and he was crowing "court-ney, court-ney" this morning.  I'm pretty sure QT Pie is a girl.  I have named only one of the white ones.  He was also crowing this morning when I moved them all to their new cage.  His name is "Henry".

This is  Jimmi.  He is the first one that was named.  He was also the first to hatch.  My daughter thought he looked like those chocolate sprinkles that you put on ice cream.