Mean/Aggressive Quail roo? Or normal?

[FloorCandy]

If you keep the roos in a separate cage, they tend to leave their mating instincts behind. I'm not sure a simple divider between roos and hens will work though. Roos may need a separate cage out range from the females.

Anyone here have experience keeping them close together? Will the males compete among themselves for females nearby but out of reach?

I have a pen I call male jail. I have been keeping about 5-10 males in it for the past 5-6 months maybe. No casualties so far, there’s usually one that gets to be the “girl” and he usually looks a little rough, but no injuries. I keep it covered with a tarp except the front, which faces west so it only gets direct light in the afternoon. There’s also a bunch of hides and cinderblocks to break line of sight. I kept about 5 for maybe 3 months, then I started raising 23 sex link hens to sell when they start laying. In order to be able to offer people free males to go with their hens, I kept 5 boys and added them to male jail a couple weeks ago. Not long after, they were joined by my nasty boy Prince.

There were maybe 11 for a couple weeks but I’ve started selling the hens and someone accidentally lost a male I sold them and I replaced it, so there’s only 6 right now. I also don’t acclimate any birds to change in general, I mist them all with vinegar water and they usually do fine, any that don’t, get a few squirts when they aggress. Usually that settles them down, anyone who doesn’t get along gets a supper invite.