Park Day Chicken/Quail Care

Help take care of our wonderful flock of five bantam chickens, AND our new covey of five quails

DURING THE SUMMER, WE NEED HELP 3 DAYS/WEEK on Mondays, Wednesdays and/or Fridays.
There is a special gate code to be used ONLY by chicken care volunteers and ONLY for chicken care.
Please e-mail or text Amelea to receive the code.

Volunteer tasks include refilling fresh feed and water, doing a clean sweep of the coop, giving them some love and maybe even bringing some food scraps from home to give as treats. Additional instructions will be provided in coop. Feel free to bring the whole family to help care!

IMPORTANT: Quails are still acclimating to their new home. They are different than chickens and should NOT be handled by adults or children. They can NOT be let out of their coop to free range as chickens do (they will not return, and may be attacked by a predator). These quails are not socialized to be around large groups of people. Commotion frightens them and could cause injury if they try to fly in their small coop, so please make sure to give them space, peace and quiet when visiting. Be extra gentle and careful when adding greens, feed, water or removing eggs from their coop.

QUAILS
1. Fill metal feeder from gallon bag of feed crumbles and 1 pinch each of grit pebbles and oyster shells (all found in the black plastic bin).
2. Rinse out yellow and clear plastic waterer and fill it up with fresh water from nearby hose. Also rinse, refill and replace hamster waterers.
3. Treats: quail are picky, however they enjoy small pieces of fresh greens, melon rinds, fruit peels.
4. Clear any old food scraps from floor inside coop.
5. You may take home any eggs you collect! The quail eggs are tiny (5 quail eggs=1 regular-sized chicken egg). You can hard boil them (1 minute), or poach them (35 seconds).
---If you are not able to take eggs home, we can use them for the learning garden program. Please place them in an egg carton and leave on the table next to the coop, or put inside refrigerator in Palm Building kitchen.

Quail coop lock code: 560
IMPORTANT: The quail's coop, door and lock should ONLY BE OPENED/TENDED BY ADULTS; QUAIL LOCK CODE SHOULD NOT be shared with children.

CHICKENS
1. Fill all three blue, yellow, red plastic mini feeders with feed from the black plastic bin
2. Rinse out red and clear plastic waterer and fill it up with fresh water from nearby hose.
3. Clean any chicken poop out from the inside of coop house, using the metal dustpan and poop scoops to sift from sand, and empty into small black containers outside of coop. These containers can then be emptied into the dumpsters on the other side of the hedge, by the back gate, behind the Magnolia building.
4. Rake any old vegetable/food scraps from floor inside of hen yard.
5. You may take home any eggs you collect! The hens are bantam chickens which means they are miniature and so are their eggs. ---If you are not able to take eggs home, we can use them for the learning garden program. Please place them in an egg carton and leave on the table next to the coop, or put inside refrigerator in Palm Building kitchen.

Chicken coop lock code: 063
Coop latch has a wire on it to help you open from the inside.

The chickens & quails THANK YOU!

Further questions/concerns? Let Amelea or Joe know:
Amelea Canaris amelea.canaris@parkdayschool.org (740) 972-9064
Joseph Patton joseph.patton@parkdayschool.org (703)-981-6451