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They seem so fragile to me, since they keep injuring themselves. But they have healed amazingly well so far. The scalped female is healed up now and is back in with the group. So far so good. Now I'm just waiting to see what happens with the hen with the leg injury...

I don't see how that would be possible for her to get stuck in bars. The "cage" I was keeping the injured male in (and had these girls in with him for a few minutes) was a big plastic bin with netting on top. There aren't bars to get a leg stuck in. Maybe something got dislocated another way...

I applied preparation H to the prolapsed vents, and the hens no longer have prolapse. Yay! As far as the injuries go, I divided the quail in half so that 1 male and 4 females were in one cage, and 4 females were in another. When the injured male looked pretty healed up, I decided I was going...

Thanks, that's some really good insight! I know with my chickens, my hens seem to like my rooster, but once he's mated with them a couple of times that day, they get tired of it. They won't really run from him when he does his dance, but will back away just momentarily. That's interesting that...

Oh, and I've had a dust bath in this whole time. And then after the first attack, I added another box full of straw as a hiding place. It didn't help. I don't know... maybe I should have made it darker in the hiding place box? Also, these are jumbo pharaoh quail. Do they have a reputation for...

Thanks for the encouragement. I think six of the females are laying, because I'm generally getting 4 eggs but sometimes 6 eggs a day. I'm also getting a lot of double yolk eggs right now, which might explain the prolapse. But considering that a lot of the females are laying, it seems strange to...

I've also been thinking maybe the remaining roo is the perpetrator... I'm used to chickens so I'm not quite sure what is normal with quail, but he's awfully persistent in mating with the hens (at least a lot more persistent than any chicken rooster I've raised). He chases them around constantly...

A little over 7 weeks ago, I hatched out some coturnix quail. They turned out to be 9 hens and 2 roos, which I kept together in a 3' x 4' cage in my sunroom. Well, about a week ago, I went to refill their food and water and saw that one of the roos had been badly scalped. I removed him from the...