My male is a racist. I think my beautiful tux is not going to make it.

[FloorCandy]

I’ve had success with deterring aggression using a squirt bottle with water/Vinegar mixture. You start by misting everyone lightly with the mix, also mist all the areas of the pen. This confuses them and resets the social hierarchy for a short time. Watch the birds for at least a half hour, watch for aggression. Change your squirt bottle from mist to spray/ squirt mode, if someone attacks, squirt them. I start by aiming for the back, and if the violence continues, I aim for the chest. Usually after a few tries they give up. Occasionally you get one who is just a jerk, and he won’t give up, and in that situation I recommend culling because you don’t want him passing on or teaching those behaviors.

 

[SulkyBantam]

Dont give up hope guys.

They are not 'racist'. They don't even have a conception of this. They are just aggressive. Racism if a human thing.

 

[The Kooky Kiwi]

This is not an uncommon phenomenon - I experienced similar when breeding cockatiels. The effect of "nurture" (or in your case bullying) can have a noticeable effect on a birds behaviour.

Traditional cockatiel colours include yellow and orange pigments. When the new whitefaced variety first came along (which are absent all yellow and orange) the traditional coloured birds refused to socialise/pair/mate with them.

So we tried an experiment - we swapped eggs in the nests. We gave whiteface eggs to coloured parents, and the coloured variety eggs to the whitefaces - then let them rear each others eggs/chicks.

We then observed that those chicks - having been raised in "combination coloured & non coloured families" - would socialised, pair up and mate with any coloured or non coloured bird.

I'd say your bird - having been bullied by white birds in the past - simply has an understandable "learned" fear/dislike of white birds.

 

[Peristeria]

I put 2 new females in a large enclosure with my one breeder male. He beat one hen up so bad I don't think she will make it. He's shown this behavior before. He accepts all birds without white on them, and picks on the whites. I didn't think he would react to the tux. I was gone for 2 hours, and I think I'm too late to save the tuxedo hen. She seems comfortable, but I believe she will be blind even if she pulls through. Her head is a bloody mess. I am so sad. Has anyone else had issues with bird color and pens?

The same thing happened to 3 of my girls. Our male is white and only wanted to mate with the white girls. They were raised together, brown and white, but he still had his favorites.

While we were on vacation, he caused chaos and scalped all 3 of them. Thankfully, a family friend was checking on them for us and separated them into the 'quarantine' divider in their coop.

Blue-Cote and time is all it took. They will be blue until they molt again, but they will generally be ok. They are tough little birds. I hope she feels better!

 

[Nabiki]

Dont give up hope guys.

They are not 'racist'. They don't even have a conception of this. They are just aggressive. Racism if a human thing.

We used "racist" in a humourous manner. It is true, however, that they tend to be more aggressive to quail that are a different colour. I have had less trouble with chicks that were raised with mixed colours, but if I have a pen of all one colour and introduce a new bird, it is far more likely to be accepted if it is the same colour as the rest of them.

 

[SulkyBantam]

We used "racist" in a humourous manner. It is true, however, that they tend to be more aggressive to quail that are a different colour. I have had less trouble with chicks that were raised with mixed colours, but if I have a pen of all one colour and introduce a new bird, it is far more likely to be accepted if it is the same colour as the rest of them.

Yeah I get it, but this is not racism, just quail discrimination

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

So we tried an experiment - we swapped eggs in the nests. We gave whiteface eggs to coloured parents, and the coloured variety eggs to the whitefaces - then let them rear each others eggs/chicks.

We then observed that those chicks - having been raised in "combination coloured & non coloured families" - would socialised, pair up and mate with any coloured or non coloured bird.

I'd say your bird - having been bullied by white birds in the past - simply has an understandable "learned" fear/dislike of white birds.

Nice!

 

[CovidtimeQuail]

This is the roo.


I'd show the scalped hen, but she looks awful. I'm having a hard time there are eyes under all the swelling.

By the way, how do I feed and give her water since she can't see?

 

[muans]

same happened to me a few months back i had 2 pharoah hen and 1 roosters pharoah too and one ginger brown quail ,my rooster is a racist too he pecked all the ginger's back feathers and i had to remove her and when i closely look at the her back there was blood so i kept her warm and after a weeks she's happy again..but never return to the flock till now

 

[Nabiki]

This is the roo.
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I'd show the scalped hen, but she looks awful. I'm having a hard time there are eyes under all the swelling.

By the way, how do I feed and give her water since she can't see?

I keep injured birds in a small plastic bin with a hardware cloth top. They can snuggle in shavings, and food and water are nearby. They can usually find it.