Cull a covey?

[SailingAgape]

Well, It started out as a normal saturday until...

I have 3 Roos and a hen all from my first hatch on week 5. This morning, I found the biggest male extra aggressive and had bloodied the other 2 males and the hen showed signs of some wear and tear... all overnight.

Alpha Rood got to spend the day living in a 5 gallon bucket until I got new "colony cages" build and I had a separate place to put him till I eat him.

But back in the pen, one remaining roo has not opened his eyes for the latter 3/4 of the day. And he's been harassed by moth the other hen and the other Roo.

At this point, I'm wondering if they're all just jerks and want to be eaten.

 

[FortCluck]

You have too many males and too little females. Male quail get quite aggressive and you should have 1 male to 4-6 females. If you don’t, you risk the males fighting until they off each other. Sometimes you can only have 1 male because certain males just don’t jive well with the others. I’d separate all your males.

 

[VannahBee]

Well, It started out as a normal saturday until...

I have 3 Roos and a hen all from my first hatch on week 5. This morning, I found the biggest male extra aggressive and had bloodied the other 2 males and the hen showed signs of some wear and tear... all overnight.

Alpha Rood got to spend the day living in a 5 gallon bucket until I got new "colony cages" build and I had a separate place to put him till I eat him.

But back in the pen, one remaining roo has not opened his eyes for the latter 3/4 of the day. And he's been harassed by moth the other hen and the other Roo.

At this point, I'm wondering if they're all just jerks and want to be eaten.

We eat our males to. Dont fell bad.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

Sounds like it's quail for dinner sir, sorry if you were hoping for something other than this. The lone girl needs some other hens to keep the male busy spreading himself around. As the earlier poster said, 4-6 females per male minimum, good luck and let us know how it turns out...

 

[SailingAgape]

Oh I'm running eggs through the incubator just as fast as I can for hens.

And I have zero issues taking out the angry roo right now. I was just hoping to fatten him up a little more

 

[SailingAgape]

So I'm down to 1 and 1. And 2 meals. The male and female are separated for now because she was roughing him up earlier.

I took out the biggest cause he was a jerk. And an average male that had been bloodied and hadn't opened his eyes for a day and a half and hadn't been eating. The remaining male has started hissing at me, I wonder if it's because he may have seen me do it and he knows I'm eyeballing the male in the brooder as an heir.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

Problem is, that they get mad on blood.
Injured birds should be seperated.

Their instinks tell them, that blood attrackts predators, so injured birds will be attacked till death.
In nature they would flee, banned from the flock .. but in a cage/coop they have no escape.
This is why the female also started to attack.

Beside this, of course too many roos will lead to fights for the few females.

 

[SailingAgape]

Yeah I'm working on more females. If someone on here could just figure out what to spray on the eggs at a certain time of when to spike the temp or humidity for an hour to cause them to hatch out as 80% female, that would be great.

That's good to know on the blood instincts. Hopefully in a couple days they can go back together.

 

[Fenrisulfr]

I guess that only works with cocodiles. There are scientific researches, that negate this theory, even that birds lineage from the dinosaurs.

Big chicken breeders, for egg production would use this, if possible.

Or did I jump on a prank

 

[SailingAgape]

I guess that only works with cocodiles. There are scientific researches, that negate this theory, even that birds lineage from the dinosaurs.

Big chicken breeders, for egg production would use this, if possible.

Or did I jump on a prank

Maybe if the scientists from Jurrasic Park would start working on Coturnix instead of dinosaurs, then we'd start getting somewhere with our hatch ratios.