Process for separating males from females

Roseamore

Hatching
Mar 1, 2016
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NSW Australia
Hi guys!

I'm new to keeping quails. My first set have survived hatch and infancy and are now on their third day outside.

Of my flock 11 are golden. That will make sexing and separating easy.

The rest are all tuxedo or tibetan and I know that will be harder.

My question to everyone is; do you have a particular process for identifying and separating males and females. Do you have a particular pen set up? Do you separate as you happen to notice behaviour indicators or do you try to do it in one run?

At what age?

At the moment my chicks are 3 weeks old so i have them all running in one 1m by 1.3m tractor.
 
I've only been at it for a year, but I remove the cocks at 5 weeks, which is when it's quite obvious which are which and is also when the cocks start crowing and trying to kill each other.
 
I determine the sex of quail at about 5 weeks, though some start crowing a full week or so earlier. I separate the females and males at the same time. If I have any doubts about the sexing, then I separate the quail in doubt to see if it crows. If the female are out of earshot of the males, the males seem to get along very well.
 

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