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    Baby pics + how do my hens compare?

    Those heat plates are the best thing ever!
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    Male crowing and female bald belly

    Don’t worry about your male. He will start trying to do his job soon. From my experience they will literally flip a switch one day and it will be obnoxiously obvious. I do caution you if you only have one male and one female. He will most likely over breed her and can actually hurt her. I had...
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    Aggression Normal?

    I had one roo with two hens. He absolutely tore them up. So he had to go. I then started having the two hens go broody and start hurting each other. They now have a wire grate separating them. They can see each other and that’s all they care about. Quail are vicious little birds lol.
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    Roo fixated on one hen

    Well they have been back together for almost a day and no fighting. Maybe these four or five days apart really made the difference. I’m still keeping a sharp eye on them as we all know, quail can turn on a dime
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    Roo fixated on one hen

    I’m highly considering keeping them separated. I don’t want to put them back together and with a hour have the same issue of fighting. They get very territorial against each other.
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    Separating coturnix hens?

    That’s interesting. I may have to do that if they go back to fighting. I’m going to keep them separated a few days and see what happens.
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    Separating coturnix hens?

    I take them up almost as soon as they lay them. They typically lay in The evening after work so I check in the them grab them after they lay. They have been very vocal today since I separated them. They are not happy. But, I’d rather them heal and not hurt each other….
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    Separating coturnix hens?

    Yes I’m certain they are both hens. I get two eggs a day and each egg is different from the other. How long do hens stay broody?
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    Separating coturnix hens?

    I have two 4 month old coturnix hens and they have gotten along great. Yesterday I noticed one had been scalped by the other one. I treated the wound and they calmed down and didn’t do anything else. Today the one that had gotten scalped, had tried to scalp the other one! I have separated them...
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    Roo fixated on one hen

    Good to know. She got over the wound fast and have had no ill effects. I can’t even tell you which one had it now because they look so similar
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    Roo fixated on one hen

    I used neosporin on the wound my bird had. Wether or not you are supposed to use that on birds idk… but it seemed to have really helped keep the spot clean and it did not get infected.
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    Do roosters get mean as they age?

    That’s very interesting and very fast. Do you have some photos at 21 days to be able to tell?
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    Do roosters get mean as they age?

    Sounds like he is really overbreeding them. I’d recommend either removing him and let him live out his days or let him go to the freezer. If you’re not needing him for fertilized eggs, the hens don’t need a roo to lay. I had a roo literally peck a hole in the side of one of my hens head and I...
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    Integrating new birds?

    I’ve been thinking about raising a few more quail to get my egg production up a little bit.Once new birds are old enough to go in with the current birds, should I make a divider in their enclosure and let them get used to each other then after a few days remove the divider? I know how...
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    Does this look like a good dust bath mix?

    I waited until mine were 6 weeks and I use the Sweet PDZ and put in a little bit of food grade diatomaceous earth to assist in bug control. The sweet pdz is all natural and a deodorizer so what they knock out of the box is helping the droppings not smell so bad. I usually top it off once a week.
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