I had to kill one of my four hens today. Sometime between my first morning visit to the chicken yard and 3 PM when I next visited, three of the sisters had pecked a large and deep hole into the back of the fourth. These hens had been very happy birds with the free run of five grassy acres...
My neighbor is raising quail... both the bob white and the Japanese. The Japanese seem to be about 4 times as fertile as the bob Whites and mature about twice as fast. He moves the chicks from the incubator to a brooder then to a 4 stage pen where they are moved from one section to the other...
Well, just trying to feel my way around. Got 4 new hens, 3 eggs/day. They free range during the day with goats, sheep, peafowl (3), and one lonely turkey.