Jumbo Coturnix Quail Maintenence
Tonight our sweet mini lop bunny, Parsley, had a little disruption to her usually quiet evening. Suddenly, she found she had been relocated to a different cage and her house was packed fuller than Bilbo Baggins’ burrow! Keep reading below:
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You can see by her face that she was a little irritated by it at first. But pretty soon she settled in and enjoyed the opportunity to hop around in the cage and nibble the sprigs of grass that were poking through. She ended up enjoying a little change of pace in scenery.
I had decided that it was time to scour out the quail pens. I keep just about 20 birds in each cage. Even though the design of the cage is intended for the droppings to fall through and be collected in trays beneath, they tend to accumulate around the edges and in other places. I’m not sure what the quail thought. They seemed pretty excited at the chance for all ≈60 to have a meet and greet in Parsley’s rabbit cage! It sounded like a party, and no one seem to be fighting.
I removed and scraped and washed the droppings trays. And then scraped and sprayed out the pens with the hose. These birds may be small, but they’re messy! Nothing that 15 minutes of scraping and scrubbing, couldn’t take care of though. Soon enough, I could replace the droppings trays, put the feeders back in, and their little sand boxes full of fresh sand. I just use oil drip pans (24×36) for droppings trays, and simple sink size dish-washing tubs for their sand. Keep reading below:
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It looks like I’ll need to add some items into her cage so she can feel a little more entertained. Maybe some little steps and a platform. Perhaps a new cardboard house to hide underneath? Otherwise, she may just get bored, and actually head out on a real adventure. Can’t have her chasing dragons off to the lonely mountain, now can we?
