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Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 12:03 AM
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angus1956
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Ordered a kit on-line the frame, door and included chicken wire helped but I did it my way. Ordered a doubled knotted 25x50' net which I only used half of it, smallest I could find. Anyway after adding end support, 2 center supports, pipe insulation, 20" stakes at each pole location to anchor down, 12" of chicken wire under the outside of the bottom rail to keep vermin from digging in and 19" of tin to cover the botton sides its mine. Moved 26 Bobwhite quail today to new living quarters. Hope to start a new venture this fall with my birds.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 12:39 AM
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Perfect is the highest degree of a compliment.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 01:04 AM
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 01:29 AM
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 05:38 AM
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Very nice. You think rat snakes will get through the netting?
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 07:18 AM
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angus1956
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Very nice. You think rat snakes will get through the netting?
I hope the tin will keep them out. Netting is 1" squares I'll be checking every day for critters.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 07:32 AM
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Very nice. You think rat snakes will get through the netting?
I hope the tin will keep them out. Netting is 1" squares I'll be checking every day for critters.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 03:03 PM
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Looks good John! Congrats!
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/06/21 10:07 PM
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 12:10 AM
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Pen size is 10x20' not the biggest but it's a start. I have 100 week old birds coming next week but it will be a few weeks before they go to this pen.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 12:28 AM
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Where did you order the kit from?
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 07:12 AM
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Amazon just search for quail flight pen. Was $365.00, net was $160.00.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 07:14 AM
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Amazon just search for quail flight pen. Was $365.00, net was $160.00.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 02:47 PM
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It is my guess that more will try something similar with the lack of wild birds.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 02:54 PM
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Good luck with raccoons. They will rip open most nets. Also, you will have rats--they are really hard to stop, but if you have no chicks, not a great problem. Add the metal barrier to the door. Racoons will reach thru mesh they can't break and grab birds pull them thru or bite their heads off.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 04:14 PM
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I used hardware cloth for my Johnny House quail [/quote]
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 05:53 PM
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I don't put young birds in this flight pen. Thanks for the advice on the Coons I'll be watching for them. I have plenty of Duke traps for them and run game cameras on the pen. Yes anywhere there is feed or grain the rats show up. If it is a problem ill be putting out Just One Bite for them to enjoy.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 05:58 PM
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Advice on poll cats. Open the gate and let them walk out. Shoot them when they a a football field away.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 07:09 PM
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Advice on poll cats. Open the gate and let them walk out. Shoot them when they a a football field away. Hmmmm, I learned that lesson the hard way. Killed one on the back patio. Took about a year for the smell to go away. Now I’ve a got a snare set on the other side of the house. There’s another one that keeps digging a hole in between some bushes by the driveway.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/07/21 11:00 PM
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I don't put young birds in this flight pen. Thanks for the advice on the Coons I'll be watching for them. I have plenty of Duke traps for them and run game cameras on the pen. Yes anywhere there is feed or grain the rats show up. If it is a problem ill be putting out Just One Bite for them to enjoy. Possums will be around too
Bobby Barnett
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/08/21 08:46 PM
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Snakes can get in---they don't need much of an opening at all. They usually don't do a lot of damage, unless birds are laying--usually they will only eat one bird. Coons and possums will kill everything they can. Worst problem I ever had was bees---they killed evry bird in the pen in about an hour.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/08/21 09:10 PM
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/08/21 09:32 PM
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/09/21 01:10 AM
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Killer bees, never heard of this.
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Re: Small Quial Flight Pen
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07/09/21 03:17 AM
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bees were nesting nearby. and apparently swamed as the day warmed up. Came into pen found 1/3 of the birds dead w/o a mark on them. Cleaned up and returned an hour later and all the birds were dead--realezed that is was bees when the started to buzz around me.
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