There was a lot of fighting when I had too many males, but since we culled them there's been no issues until we added our new hatch to the lower pen. I think there's only 1 male down there so IDK what their problem is
I think I might be done. Cleaned everything, rearranged. Put all but injured eye back in. First thing this morning, my original injured is completely bloodied. I don't think she is going to make it. My male is completely covered in blood from attacking her. Blood all over the cage. I put...
I just took everyone out, power washed and changed all the sand. Went to put them back in and noticed while in isolation with tiki (the original bullied) today Mrs. Nesbit has possibly lost her eye🙄
So now she can't go back in with the others because they were all chasing her for the 5 min...
You have bedding on the ground? What kind do you use for it? I was planning on putting some long grasses in there, but letting them free range on the ground. Currently I have sand in the closed part of their enclosure, but with separate space for a dust bath, could I just put bedding under...
I don't mind an occasional squabble but I would like them to stop scalping each other.
Tiki was getting relentlessly pick on by Jasmine, so I took Jasmine out. Then my male, Poncho, who had been scalped as a young male, picked up where Jasmine left off. At first I couldn't tell if he was...
In our chicken coop we have hardware cloth on the bottom and chicken wire on the top and haven't had any issues. Our neighbors say they have lost some to predators but it seems only at night. Ours go in the coop at night and we have an auto door so it hasn't been an issues at all. The...
We currently have 13 quail. We are new to all poultry and quail peaked our interest when we were researching our chickens. We Built a stacked pen with 2 separate pens. The top pen is full of our first hatch and we gathered enough hatching eggs to do another hatch and that group is down below...