I'm guessing I have a bad roo

[pac]

A week or so ago I moved a couple hens. I noticed the one had blood on its throat. As if being slit. I figured she must have somehow cut it on perhaps the box inside their hutch (papercut), or against the wood doorway. But she healed quick enough in the other hutch.

Today I see a hen with a beat up throat. Towards the side this time, but feathers gone and it looks a little puffy.

I'm thinking I have an overzealous roo that isn't waiting for the top of the head?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

A week or so ago I moved a couple hens. I noticed the one had blood on its throat. As if being slit. I figured she must have somehow cut it on perhaps the box inside their hutch (papercut), or against the wood doorway. But she healed quick enough in the other hutch.

Today I see a hen with a beat up throat. Towards the side this time, but feathers gone and it looks a little puffy.

I'm thinking I have an overzealous roo that isn't waiting for the top of the head?

What's your setup like? Photos

Any sharp edges in the hutch?

Photos of the injuries and your birds?

What's the dimensions and how many hens to roosters?

Do you see the hens fighting? Do they have any hiding places?

How old are they?

 

[z3lda3]

Throat? With roosters anything is possible, but I don’t understand how the rooster would manage to slit a hens throat while mating. (Or trying to).

 

[Finchbreeder]

Never come accross throat damage with Quail.
So are you posative there is nothing they are stretching over to eat/drink/grab a treat?

 

[pac]

Anything they eat or drink out of is smooth plastic with rounded edges.
The only things, like I mentioned in my first post, that maybe could be considered sharp is the cardboard box I have in the hutch and the doorway between the open side and the enclosed side.

I've never seen anyone fighting. Nobody chasing anyone around.
But I do realize I need to get my hens separated soon. Probably a little late in doing so, but they all seem to be getting along (until now) and I procrastinated.

A lot of info can be found here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-first-quail-a-mini-blog.1655282/

 

[Nabiki]

Throat damage doesn't sound like quail on quail. I would guess either something sharp in the pen or rats.