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Valley Quail in the backyard
Sterling-Ranch:
A johnny house is a quail recall pen. The quail live in the Johnny House and some are let free while a few quail are kept back in the JH to recall the birds that were let loose.
Check out this link to see some
http://www.uplandbirddog.com/dogcamp/recall.html
pocketsierra:
A Johnny House sounds good but I realized I didn't know much about it. I wondered about how birds can get in and out without letting predators in.
From the descriptions you linked to, it sounds like they enter through a one way funnel. You close the door after them at dusk so predators don't follow. You open another door at dawn to let them out manually.
I am out of town occassionally, and my schedule doesn't always allow me to be around at dawn and dusk. Ultimately, a system could let them both out and in but keep predators out. Doesn't sound very likely.
Maybe a reasonable solution is to train them to a feeder/water station. As that site notes, I'd have to expect more predator losses. It probably has less staying power as well.
Nathan
Sterling-Ranch:
If your wanting the quail to be able to come and go at will, you could modify the funnel to allow them two-way access and still be predator proof. The funnels generally work by weight. Heavier predators crawl in and the funnel closes off. A two-way funnel would more likely just be a predator proof tube. Not saying it will work, but I may have to give it a try.
pocketsierra:
Sounds worthwhile to me too. Let me know how it goes if you try it.
I didn't know that funnels worked by weight. What size wire are they made of?
Nathan
Anders W. Aune:
:oops:
I can't understand how the Johnny House is working?
How is it constructed inside?
Does it work for the coturnix too?
Does anyone have some drawings of the Johnny House?
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