Raising quail part 4: Weeks 2 to 4 and your quail coop

It's time for the quail chick tween/teen weeks. Like many teenagers, they get messy and like to test their independence.

The biggest change I’ve noticed when raising quail chicks during their first few weeks is that they get progressively messier. Their focus moves from eating, growing, and sleeping, to eating, growing, and playing. By “playing” I mean a lot of movement. They zoom, scratch, hop, try to escape their brooder when the lid is off—and several successful fugiti…