Homesteading With Quail: The Big Move!

[@tomcarr5195]

Use the tin you took off the roof to make a tray for underneath. It's already the right size. Make a wooden frame for around it, put some casters on it and wheel it out when you need to clean it off.

[@joewenzel5142]

This was like a mini-Homestead Rescue episode. Good ingenuity and work, the Raineys would be proud.

[@clydebaker1857]

Your chickens are gonna love being on top of your quail hootis.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Never! lol. We are going to close it off.

[@John-w6x8w]

Dad had mounted a multiroom purple martin bird house on a slick galvanized pole about 16 ft. high with two galvanized clothesline wires stabilizing it to the barb wire fence supporting it. Purple martins were raising cane one day at a chicken snake trying to come back down one of the guy wires. It was full of baby martins and bird eggs. Mother nature's animals are amazing. Take care and I enjoy the videos. Central Texan here.

[@TimSilvey-b7k]

My grandfather's cousin raised quail in the 70's in the state of Georgia. He would raise them until they were big enough and then release them into the woods. Watching this video brought back the memories of going to his house with my papa to see the baby quail. Love the video. I'm glad you're feeling better, Jim !

[@DoubleMFarmHomestead]

Quail poop is outstanding fertilizer!! Catch it in a tray and put in garden or mix with potting soil for your flowers!

[@CajunCountryLivin]

We are definitely going to try it!

[@garybower1824]

Concerning the floor, while airflow is nice, eventually there will be enough poop and scraps to fill up the airspace under the floor. It will be a perfect place for rats and mice to live and breed. Cover that floor with linoleum or something easy to clean.

[@HeelerMomma13]

We used an old tray from a dog kennel. Beautiful quail never raised them before. 👍

[@mamich08]

You could use 1/4 inch wire screen on that floor. Still allows air to keep floor dry and will prevent most rodents and snakes. And Gus will still have one or two to play with when he isn't tipped over.

[@joeharwellauthor9317]

Pickled quail eggs are the bomb 💣.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Yeah😆😆😆

[@charlesbreitenbach508]

We have prairie rattle snakes here in Southcentral Kansas on the farm. We buy snake be gone at Home Depot, scatter a thin line around dog pen, and door ways, and this stuff works. We have had them up by the door, and in the last 4 years now, haven’t seen them around where we put it down.

[@StephanieMcCamon]

I'd put that hardware cloth on the floor NOW! I've seen where rats have taken toddler turkeys. They're a lot bigger than baby quail. Rats can get in there and devour them. 😊❤

[@karenwhite155]

I raise couternix quail. I love them! It takes approximately 3 quail eggs to equal 1 med size chicken egg. They are very easy to butcher too. We raise ours in an aviary style coop. Also, they only need a heat lamp when they are new to about 3 weeks.

[@JimMurphy-yj4my]

Thanks Jim and Lydia Happy Thanks Giving to you and the Cajun Country Family

[@billybrad204]

Our family raised chickens for eggs or for butchering. Each year we usually got 100 chicks. A part of the machine barn was housed off to a large pen which had a small doorway to a large outside pen area where the chickens could be outside. The inside pen was a cement floor for easy cleaning, with new straw placed. 😊

[@bryanstaten5585]

That king snake will thank you for leaving the gaps in the floor.

[@larrynelson734]

Hi y'all. Great video. So amazing. Great job on the quail cage. Y'all have a great week. 👍👍❤❤...

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thank you! You too!

[@annayres9959]

So cool! My son n law raised some a few years ago to release for hunting. We live in Amarillo,so that helped the population.

[@mikemiraglia7469]

A tray right under it that way you could just slide it out, not all the way down just right underneath them a metal tray on a couple of rails

[@charleshutchings9355]

Another successful project done! Lydia's gonna get Pickled Quail Legs! Thanks for the update!

[@deanwilliams3500]

Quail, Good on a plate.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

You got that right!

[@enochthrockmorton2nd214]

I absolutely love, love, love you both! You are an inspiration to many of us. I love your cutting edge ideas and methods to get them done. Keep on going and never stop. Your dry-pour method is the real truth! Again, love you both.

[@peggyblack1739]

Quail are good eaten as well as the pickled eggs

[@lorrainechapman6940]

Hey y'all....hope y'all have a lovely Thanksgiving Thursday.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Same to you😆😆

[@jillcarney4123]

The quail are cute. Ready to hatch some more😊.

[@cgray8969]

I would go under or even skirt the coop with hardware cloth the kind that is sharp and cant be chewed dont want chicken toes caught on top of that floor. Or could thro down a piece of plywood with deep bedding on part of the floor so they can get away from leg snatchers and still do some scratching

[@garynagle3093]

Glad you’re feeling better Jim. The quail look cute in their new hotel. Glad Gus is protecting y’all

[@paulg2132]

I'd suggest building a shelf a few inches below the cage and sliding a tray(s) onto that. Then, you can slide the trays out and hose them off. If you go with a three foot drop, you'll end up with quail poop three feet away in all directions.

[@skylerwub]

Get some linoleum and make a bracket with two rods to run the length to hang underneath and make two so you can just swap it out then replace while the other gets washed and dried

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Good idea!

[@50spirithealer]

Glad you are feeling better Jim! The coop is going to be a great place for the quail.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thanks!

[@deborahplyler6528]

Glad you both are feeling better.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thank you!

[@wendyhall1395]

In Texas, chicken snakes will make their way in there very easily. Even through that gap at the top where your roof is. The hardware cloth is a good idea!

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Absolutely!

[@estellaknox9285]

Pretty birds 🐦 🐦

[@vnguyen9327]

Love it, thank you

[@Jeff-jg7jh]

Such a cute jacket.

[@gerard9900]

Bravo pour cette construction d’un nichoir de cailles . Elles seront bien protégées. Courage les cousins cajuns. Bonjour de France 🇫🇷 😘👍

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thank you Gerard! Have a great week!

[@JustMe-s6s4m]

Hate to tell ya this... If you think chickens won't roost on top of the hardware cloth... you are wrong. Had a hoop house that we used as an outdoor run. Whenever one got out, guess where they slept... RIGHT! On top of the hoop house. They had clipped wings so it was really funny to watch them jump as high as they could, grab hold of the walls, and scramble like their heads were off until they managed to get on top. And there they slept all night...

[@iggymac3473]

Great job guys glad your feeling better Jim

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thanks!

[@theresaconrad6608]

My grandfather, my cousin, and I went hunting for quails a long time ago in Missouri. Those quails were good to eat fried chicken.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

That’s awesome!!

[@GeneMatheney]

You guys should put some cheap linoleum in the chicken house. That'll let you shovel out the waist a lot easier later on down the road.

[@lamiglass1]

Quails night calls are even cooler sounding

[@freedomrider30]

I couldn't watch the 720P60. You dropped to 720P50. I can watch it!!! Thank you from a guy out in the country!!! 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@AngelaWhelan-l3w]

Love how clean and nice your property is.🤩

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thank you! 🤗

[@joegutierrez2019]

Glad to see you feeling better Jim great video 😂😂😅😅

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thanks 👍

[@michaelrwilliams5466]

Love the quilted design shirt; much love to yaall's💯💯💯💯

[@garystarnes5178]

Beautiful birds! Ya'll have a great week! :)

[@CajunCountryLivin]

You too Gary!

[@kennethkeating799]

Wow I didn't think we had coral snakes down here in Louisiana!!!! For under the qaul cage, get a metal tray angled back to a gutter leaning to one side and a poop chute going out the pen. This makes it easier to clean out. Even can go full fancy hootis on it and have water nozzles already on top side of the tray hard piped to the water valve then simply turn the water on and off!

[@carolynwarren1306]

Put linoleum down and put shavings on, then easy to clean for all birds

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Good idea

[@joewenzel5142]

I'm lucky I got one dog that will bark at sidewinder rattlesnakes on the property but keeps his distance. I then grab my camera and take pictures of it. They mostly come out at night to hunt the kangaroo rats so anytime I can get a picture in daylight - score!

[@stevecarney6750]

That's a nice chicken slash quail house. I think the quail are coturnix (Japanese) there's about 6 or 7 different colors of the coturnix, but I am no quail expert😅 have a great week.

[@ld5714]

Hi Jim and Lydia 🐊 Jim, I am glad you are feeling better and getting back to 100% again. Good job on hanging the quail cage, I look forward to seeing what y'all figure out for a "pootis" for the poop control 😉 I enjoyed the stories about your pest control hootis and the snake. Have a blessed week and I'll see y'all on the next one. Larry, Central Valley, Ca.

[@KJro29]

Happy Belated Birthday 🎉

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thank you!

[@pinkmosquito22]

I've never had quail. Surprising, I know. 😅

[@rdeluna11]

Be nice if you had a tray of some sort to catch the poop, that way all you have to do is slide it out and take it outside and wash it off then slide it back in clean. A whole lot easier.

[@johnspoentgen9489]

Awesome video. You should pickle the quail eggs.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Good idea!

[@KarenSmith-ys3sk]

So I got on to watch yall,in it was in German, so I went to my subscriptions,English, yay. Don't know what happened, but wow. I love quail, they come on my property every year,watching the families of birds stay on my acreage. I have no idea what kind yall have,mine being wild are very dark. I live in the desert. Lydia what are yall going to use them for? Their eggs are tasty, and bird is tasty. Maybe meat birds? I guess we will see! Nice bird box. Yall have a good week!

[@raybo34]

Those little raptors are good eatin'

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Yes’m!

[@Jfishersawmill]

I love pickled quail eggs too

[@jdbeernfishing2916]

Maybe try using some larger oil pan trays or maybe some large pieces of linoleum.

[@billelsener6192]

A new challenge for y’all. You need a Hootas poop catcher with an automatic hootas flush attachment.

[@mudbugntx]

Guys, those look like Pharaoh Coturnix Quail. Some people back home in Louisiana call them Chukars. They are not Chukars.We used to have about 200 of them. They laid 75 eggs per day. Lots of pickled eggs, give away eggs and hatching eggs. I would not wash the quail poo from underneath the cage. You are going to make a ton of ammonia doing that. I would put a metal tray that you can slide out from under it and then use the waste for fertilizer in your garden.

[@JarredSisemore]

Awesome video guys

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thanks!

[@randalldevalcourt4000]

Looks like you two are in the quail business for sure!! Keep us updated on the tasty cuisine for I would be willing to take a few dozen off ur hands when and if u decide to part ways with them. You guys have it goin on, from your cajun neighbor in SLParish!!

[@johnkirby6547]

Hello Jim and Lydia Those are some good looking qual, I'd put a small tarp down asap. At least you could swap them out while cleaning till you get a more permanent solution. Something like a roll of vinyl or linoleum would be easier to clean out and block the gaps in floor. Glad you're feeling better Jim and happy Thanksgiving to you all ❤

[@desbuckle6907]

Perhaps you caught "Fowl Pest" but glad you are feeling better. But I'm sure Lydia looked after you well.

[@tnourse]

Too many snakes! 🫣 But your haircut looks amazing. 😊

[@raybo34]

My KZbin kept switching audio to German... Y'all speaking German was kinda funny.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

That’s what we have been told! It’s on KZbin’s side. We wish we could fix it.

[@danieltartayre1985]

Bonjour à vous trois. Merci pour cette vidéo avec doublages en français très amusant salutation de 💙🤍❤

[@thomasfruge]

Good Sunday Morning Lydia and Jim!! Great to see y'all up and around again!! 😁👍 That must have been wowizer moment with the two snakes. 👍👍 Up on quai eggs pickled !! We get pickled quail eggs from my niece she makes them with Darrel Broussard from around Gueydan, LA. 😁 A little plug there. 😁 Oh a little suggestion on the bottom of the quail coup get some cheap aluminum trays adds some hooks to it and gang it under the Coop, that way you easily empty the trays. Wow that just came from my brain!! Who'd of thought that!! 😁 Anyway, glad y'all be feeling better, have a good week ahead and a Happy Happy Thanksgiving to you both on Thursday!! 🦃💖💛💙🫶💛🐕🐕🐐🐥🐎🦆🦌🐿️🐦‍⬛ Zoo 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 😍

[@randywilson9611]

Good video good to see y'all happy holidays

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Same to you!

[@stevedurr2149]

you need a sandbox for those quail

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Yes!

[@isaacinnis]

"Alright, just pop a couple screws in them legs and we're finished. It's a bit wobbly, might wanna add a couple more. You know what Gerald, you better put about four more in...... each leg. There we go."

[@Crash-549-vh1]

Build a pull out under the cage I built a bird house an it was great easy access

[@robertevans6481]

Quail relocating hootis

[@CajunCountryLivin]

😂😂😂

[@jherndon2u]

I'm with you Jim, time to go! Lydia loves to create another job!😂

[@wendyhall1395]

Try boot/shoe trays..........

[@robinjoe8925]

Great video as always ❤

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Thank you 🤗

[@sadiekastrick8911]

The Jackery is on my wish list!

[@amyfrancois9121]

COMPOST the QUAIL POOP on a cardboard tray that will break down naturally!

[@raybame5816]

I'm sorry but I don't like poisonous snakes of any kind specially rattlers, cottonmouths and coral. Yall can havem. I didn't realize how cold it can get till I saw the weather channel, 40+/- degrees. The wrap Lydia has on is beautiful and looks quilted for warmth. Did you or somebody make it for yall. Happy Jimbo is up and running. Quail eggs are the best BTW but yall gotta getm every day it seems. Put a piece of sheet metal under the cage at a 45 deg angle towards the screen and let the poop run outside the hootis, self cleaning!

[@jimdelong949]

You two are always so funny to watch You seem to have fun doing whatever task you undertake. And I always have fun watching you. Another great video Is there a way to make some kind of tray assembly under the quail coop that you could slide out when needed cleaned

[@eldonjenkins551]

My Pa always said '" If you don't eat you don't poop and if you don't poop you die "" So your Quail are doing good making fertilizer

[@19jarhead66]

The dark brown quail you asked about, looks like a female Montezuma Quail or Coturnix, but hard to tell. I do love some pickled eggs, with Cheetos, yep, pickled pigs feet with Cheetos are good too.

[@joqlady888]

lov from South Alabama.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@loucinci3922]

Love the jacket. Store bought or did someone make that for you

[@lalousiane7118]

Cajun here of the the older crowd, where did you get that beautiful pullover, it reminds me of my great grandmas quilt. I'd love one if you'd tell me where to buy it. 🙏🙏🙏👩‍🦳❤😊

[@brandontriche9579]

Are y'all not worried about the chickens getting on top of the quail cage and pooping on the quail?

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Hi! Yes! We needed to add the water system before putting the chickens in there!

[@RodLerue]

You two are awesome and I really enjoy watching your videos. Jim, what would it take for you to wear a blue shirt and maybe a different camouflage colored pattern of shorts. Keep doing what you guys do.

[@CallardAndBowser]

Do you think your quail could squeeze thru underneath the door through that crack?

[@CajunCountryLivin]

I think so. They are escape artists 😂

[@dawsondoodles3523]

We love watching you guys! Could you tell us about the braces you used to support the quail hotel while you screwed or to the wall! Thanks!

[@KevinMiller-h3l]

All birds are good at turning food into poop

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Right!!

[@karenreneelyles261]

Are you going to put a drawer or a tray underneath the cage? How are you going to control the waste? It will get really bad, really quick.

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Hi! Yes we are!

[@NorthAlabamaOutdoorSportsmen]

looks like you got some Bob White Quail

[@CajunCountryLivin]

🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@raquelochoa-yz7ot]

Love your top! Where did you find that? Happy Thanksgiving!😊

[@gailegormley5744]

I also like your jacket!! Where did you get it?

[@CajunCountryLivin]

Hi! Here is the link! I’m wearing a medium. silk-blossom.com/products/multicolor-block-quilted-sweatshirt

[@clintshicksnider3390]

I would just leave the floor alone and if you need just plywood it

[@curthale8605]

Quail Taj Mahal !

[@CajunCountryLivin]

🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@timothycollins2989]

👍👍 y'all

[@CajunCountryLivin]

🫶🫶🫶

[@timothycollins2989]

Have a happy Thanksgiving.🍗

[@amyfrancois9121]

ELDERBERRY for IMMUNE SYSTEM!!

[@keithprinn720]

my sister lost her Weimaraner after a snake bite in Australia. very sad dogs and cats can suffer from snakes.