Thursday, February 28, 2013

War is over....?

Well, maybe it was just a short war, or they are just having a quick "cease-fire!!!"......or maybe they are happier that now the sun is finally out!?!?

Whatever the reason, I'm all for not fighting! 

Now then, qrazy quail. I thought I'd distract you all from fighting and I made a summer hut. 


It has some stress-release features, such as a Christmas bauble (they can peck on their own reflection, if they want to peck at each other!) and cuttlefish bones (they can peck on the bones if they want to peck at each other!!!). 
I've also painted greenery, which is not poisonous and is highly evergreen. 

?! More clutter !?


Whether quail care about the summer hut or not, it's not important. But I have noticed this!
Zebedee is on the ramp, and guess who's on the polystyrene house......

It's Rusty!!!!!!
And she's not pecking at Zebedee, and Zebedee didn't seem scared at all!!!!

War is over!

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The World Qrazy Quail War III

Honestly, those qrazy quail are QRAZY!!

I don't know whether they are being a bit mean because they are going through moulting, or because it's cold and grey everyday - they have started another war!

Zebedee is being pecked by Rusty, and then by Dougal too. (Ermentrude the easy going quail has no problem with anybody whatsoever. What a good quail).

So the "slickness" of Zebedee after moulting, is no longer. She is looking raggedy again!
She often spends time on the roof of the house and checks whereabouts of Rusty and Dougal. 

So here is the new layout with new plants.

They can go up the bark-ramp to the roof of the wooden house. From there I put extra ramp to the polystyrene house, as an escape route. Water and food are available there, in case Zebedee really doesn't want to go down to eat or drink....so there are 3 feeding areas in this small house!

The new green plant is Azalea japonica. Later on I found out that Azelea is highly poisonous!! So I got rid of that quickly (because quail were munching on it!!!!). Now they have larger conifer plant and a couple of rosemaries. Hope they'll be ok....I'm worried now....I thought that Azelea were used to provide hiding place for game birds. Maybe it would've been ok, but I didn't want to risk it!

I put a pot of grass (that got killed long time ago) in front of the poly house, hoping that Zebedee can hop on and off gracefully,she needs to make a quick run.

....There she comes....
!!

!! water and food !!

Ta daaaaa!


It may be time to re-paint the quail decoy, Stevie the peacekeeper.....