This is my post for #freewriters Friday prompt carpet cleaner hosted by @mariannewest
My husband has been talking about getting quail for some time now, he wanted them for the eggs. Their eggs can not be that big so they better taste very good. The stores that sold quail were too pricey or out of them. By the Grace of God, someone locally had ten that her husband bought but has been too busy to build a cage for them, she told him if he did not build the cage, she was selling them. My husband drove there right away before her husband could talk her out of it. He got 4 hens and a cock, they are 7 weeks old. I associate hens and cocks with chickens, not quail, but that is what they are also called.
We found out about the crowing because he picked them up yesterday afternoon and we only had a hampster cage to put them in so they spent the night in our bathroom, not out in his workshop.
Today my husband built a cage for them. I am glad they were in the hampster cage, it had a bottom, and not in this one, boy do they poop a lot, overnight there would be no need for carpet cleaner just throw the carpet away.
When we put them in the hampster cage we used the hampster food dish for their water. When he built the cage, he put a baby chicken water jar in it. They pecked at the glass instead of sticking their heads down to the water. We now had to teach them where the water was at.
He took a tub that butter came in and cut a circle in the side of it, they can stick their head in the hole and eat. He made this type of feeder to keep them from pooping in their food. One of the hens stuck her head in it and promptly started dragging all of the food out of the feeder. This is just day one.
Photos are mine
