In my years of keeping Japanese quail, I’ve discovered that these birds always enjoy two pieces of “quail furniture”: a shelter to hide in, and a good dust bath! I’ve also learned that whatever quail spend a lot of time in will potentially get dirty with droppings, so use a high-gloss paint on the furniture pieces to make them easy to clean and to repel moisture. Read on to find out how to make these practical projects.
A Quick, Homey, and Simple Dust Bath Box
The dust box is made of two boxes that nest one inside the other. The larger outer box has a solid plywood floor, while the smaller box has a hardware cloth floor. What I intended with this design was for the hardware cloth to sit well below the dust bath contents, and when it’d become dirty with detritus and droppings, I could lift the inner box and essentially sift out the unwanted material. This is made easier with the addition of finger
