Cortunix Quail Question

[chicken+quail=luv]

Try saying that three times fast.

I have 2 Cortunix quail who are about 2 months old. They are a male and a female. They're fully grown, and we started hearing a weird, rooster crowish-type of noise outside. We finally figured it out; the male was cawing.

It was getting slightly annoying. It sounded kind of like a mixture between a croak and a cocka-doodle-doo.

We went on vacation for a week, and when we came back, our pet-sitters had left a tiny, little egg in the fridge- our first quail egg!

It was unusually large for a quail egg, but still delicious and very small. Then, we noticed a that it was peacefully quiet around our house. Our male, Noname, had stopped cawing.

We think it could be that Curly, our female, layed her egg. But is this true? Could anyone please tell me why he stopped?

 

[shelleyd2008]

The males don't mate with the females until they are about a week away from laying. So he was probably crowing because she wasn't ready yet, but now she is, so he's happy

You might want to get at least 2 more girls, the males can really tear up the females if there aren't very many.

 

[Kullas]

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[Teach97]

I had a couple roosters that three hens weren't enough or one irritated them so they got replaced! Showed those roos who was boss!

 

[chicken+quail=luv]

Thanks, Shelly.

We thought it might be that, but we weren't sure.

I think we were going to get more cortunix, but everyone was so annoyed at the cawing, that we almost decided to give them away. We'll get new ones as soon as we can.

I don't want my little Curly to get hurt.