Quail feeder/waterer ideas

[hog_down]

Tossing around the idea of making a few of these, but don't want to be wasting time or money in doing so. Please see attached pics, and I apologize if they are sideways. I want to help the quail as much as I can up in the Hill Country.

Angled metal roof, with a gutter system, feeding into a plastic 55 gallon barrel, and then into some type of watering system.

30 gallon metal barrel Currie type feeder with milo inside the 'box'.

Let me know your thoughts or opinions. I would place them in or around some type of cover for sure.

Thanks in advance.

[El General]

A guy I went to college with makes and sells those.

[Hooverfb]

Whatever you want. Have seen pvc fed from the barrel with a rabbit waterer nipple or cup watered, but infusing gravity, I'd opt for the rabbit waterer perhaps with a dish below to catch. Or run it from the barrels into 2 liter bottles strung to the cage with springs or ties, with the cup water screwed on to the bottles. PVC route would be easier.

[MAP]

I think that design would work best on land with released birds that are use to drinking out of drip systems like that. I dont know if wild birds would know what to do around something like that. If I had wild birds I would want some type of open drinking system.

I like using chicken water's I just wish I could find bigger ones that held more water

[Atfulldraw]

I think that design would work best on land with released birds that are use to drinking out of drip systems like that. I dont know if wild birds would know what to do around something like that. If I had wild birds I would want some type of open drinking system.

I like using chicken water's I just wish I could find bigger ones that held more water

You can put this one on a 55 gallon drum....

[ThisLadyHunts]

We tried this on our place once. Even though the box is designed to allow only quail to enter, we had a problem with snakes getting in there. The raccoons were also problematic. While they were too big to get inside the box, you could tell from all the disturbance around the outside (and just inside) the box that they spent a lot of time trying (tenacious little buggers!). All in all, once the quail left the box, they could never get back in.