How Much Foam is Enough?

[MomFoldingLaundry]

Hey guys, a batch of my quail are just reaching maturity, and I'm having a hard time telling who is and is not a boy. I fear like 3 or 4 out of a batch of 5 may have been boys. 1 is for sure, he is crowing and was getting aggresive.

But now I have one more who's being aggressive. It doesn't have *much* foam, and isn't crowing...but there is a little foam.

Should I assume this small amount is perhaps from being bred? Or is this just early, adolescent type foam?

The one male I'm sure of from that batch got moody and aggressive when he didn't have much foam yet, and hadn't started crowing. I guess a bit like a teenager boy.

My question is: is a "little" foam sometimes due to breeding? Or should I assume any foam at all is a sign it's probably a male? (I have three in "time out" right now, awaiting a judgement.)

Thanks!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've had girls present with foam if they were bred very recently

 

[FloorCandy]

Hey guys, a batch of my quail are just reaching maturity, and I'm having a hard time telling who is and is not a boy. I fear like 3 or 4 out of a batch of 5 may have been boys. 1 is for sure, he is crowing and was getting aggresive.

But now I have one more who's being aggressive. It doesn't have *much* foam, and isn't crowing...but there is a little foam.

Should I assume this small amount is perhaps from being bred? Or is this just early, adolescent type foam?

The one male I'm sure of from that batch got moody and aggressive when he didn't have much foam yet, and hadn't started crowing. I guess a bit like a teenager boy.

My question is: is a "little" foam sometimes due to breeding? Or should I assume any foam at all is a sign it's probably a male? (I have three in "time out" right now, awaiting a judgement.)

Thanks!

In my experience, the foam from breeding won’t really be inside as much as smeared around the area. Most males you won’t see the foam unless you press the bulge, and it will squeeze out like toothpaste from a tube, if you push and get a small smear of foam, it is not necessarily a male, you would notice a significant amount come out. Quail from what I understand, don’t have a phallus, the posture they pin the hen to kind of makes her hunker down and express her vent area a bit, then he rubs his foam all over the general area, and repeats it many times per day depending on how many hens he has.