Keep yours in breeding pens or males separate?

mochicken

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I keep my Coturnix in pens with 2 females to a male, in one of my pens I have not been getting any eggs the last few days and the females heads are tore up so I am assuming the male has them all stressed out over-breeding them.

I pulled him out and put in a pair of Tibetans that I had in a pen as a "pair" because their other female had died. So now there is one more "gentle" male with three lady friends and the aggressive male is in a bachelor pad all alone
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he is NOT happy lol he has been calling out since I put him in there alone, I am thinking of putting some nice romantic novels in with him to make him more of a ladies man but until that happens I will just ask you this lol

Do you keep your males and females in small groups like I do or do you just allow your males in with the females every few days with the intentions of them breeding then separate them again?
 
Keep them together and go with a 5:1 ratio or greater. Two hens just aren't enough for these little guys...they have part energizer bunny in their genes
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Yeah I will be overrun with babies soon so I hope to get a few good females for "biggie smalls" as he has so affectionately been named lol, he yells at me every time I go near his cage now, I'm pretty sure he's not liking his bachelor pad much lol
 

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