Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[bronze]

I'm giving up on quail for now

I hope to start again when I move, whenever that may be

 

This morning I went to feed them and found that my stopping the rats getting to anything edible, no veg s"Ooops, word censored!"s on compost, taking feed in at night had just made the hungry so the crafty little ****s decided to find a way to get into my quail instead.

My last four girls taken in one fell swoop

[ClaireG]

Oh no Bron

[Charlottechicken]

Oh no

 

So sorry

[Lesley]

Oh, that's such a shame Bron - we've been there as well. We now have a concrete base for the quail run......although the rats are living under the concrete at the moment

 

I hope you do have some more in the Spring.

[Jules.]

[bronze]

mine were on slabs, the gaps are less than a cm apart yet they still managed to get in

next time I'm laying slabs staggered over slabs

my poor girls I hope it was quick

[Lesley]

I'm sure it would have been........

[chelsea]

Sorry to hear it Bron.

[Janty]

So sorry

 

[rufusrooster]

omg, how dreadful for you i am hoping to get some quail next spring. was intending to have a small seperated area in the wir for there house, with a door into there own run alongside the wir, on grass,

will have to have a rethink now,

do the rats just attack them and kill them instantly ? can the quail not defend themselves at all aren't they bigger than the rats ?

[bronze]

theyre about the same size maybe a little bigger but a whole lot dimmer

[Lesley]

Some of the rats we've seen are bigger than our quail

[Guest]

so sorry to hear it