Help please, this will be my first winter and its get cold in Nebraska. So I will start from the top, my coop is not your ordinary coop it is a shed building made out of plastic/resin material and is 4 by 6. Plenty of room for my three girls. It has one window on each side, one I cut out...
I'm new in this I order 8 chicks they are arriving next week. I'm now looking around for the coop design I guess I have 6 weeks to have it ready because base of what I have read they are big enough for the coop.
I been weeks reading and I have an information overflow and the sky is the limit...
I'm new to coturnix / Japanese quail and have been diligently (over) researching. One thing I haven't found the answer to is how much ventilation do quail need? I know chickens in their coops need 1 square foot of ventilation per bird. Is there a similar number for quail? How high above...
needing a little advice; I have an old shed on my property which I previously used as a chicken coop but my chickens weren't laying, presumably because there isn't very much light, and there isn't much ventilation. It's completely metal except for half of the side facing their run, which is wood...