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Coturnix quail bullies...
I recently bought a dozen quail from a breeder who nicely showed me how to tell male from female by squeezing their privates.. the ones which squeezing caused a foam ejection were males, the ones with no result were females. So we carefully sexed each one and I paid for my females... 3 turned... -
Coturnix quail bullies...
I am new to quail but my observations and thoughts are that the damage to our female quail is primarily a result of mating behaviour. We have 5 quail raised from chicks. At about 8 weeks of age the single male began mating the females and at about the same time we started to get eggs. The young...