Feather Plucking from mother to chick? Help?

[Lanky]

So as the title says but i don't know why it started or what to do. The only thing new is i moved them to a bigger and mom decided this one chick time was now. i moved the chick out and into a different cage but ill be honest by the time i got to the chick it was badly injured. So the chick is alone in their own cage hopefully will heal and make it BUT any reason why mom suddenly just started to Feather pluck and try to kill this chick.

Chicks are about 5 weeks
Mom is pushing 2 years
All feed a high protein diet and dubia roach babys and grit.

 

[Kale the Quail]

try separating the mama. Quail chicks don't really need an older hen to take care of them. Do you have a picture of your injured chick?

 

[Lanky]

the chick wont let me get near anymore for a picture i dont wanna stress more then i have but its whole back is bloody and missing most of its feathers. alos they are button quail

 

[Kale the Quail]

try taking a picture of the rest of the birds along with the chick without picking her up

 

[Lanky]

i removed the chick and is away 4 hours ago doe should i put him back he isnt even moving much i say he no idea of gender

 

[Kale the Quail]

try taking a picture from farther away so that he doesn't get scared. the other chicks don't need to be in the picture.

 

[Quailobsessed]

I had a quail go broody and hatch three chicks. When they hatched, one was immediately rejected, so we hand raised her (my avatar). The male was aggressive to the chicks after a while though, so we separated him. The other two were rejected at two and a half weeks and one of them died. We put the survivor with her sister (who we were hand raising). She went broody again (almost immediately) and hatched out another chick, but we didn't let the male with this one. She raised this one to adulthood and then went broody again. She hatched out two more (she has bad hatch rates), but one of them died. At around two weeks, she started plucking her chick, so we separated them. She went broody again and hatched out two chicks, but we removed them straight away (one was thrown out of the nest anyway!)

I've had success with quail parents, but this wasn't one of them. Most quails aren't good parents (most don't even go broody). For the safety on the chick, I would separate it from her permanently.