Sexing quail and colour

[Tenesexx]

Hi I have 10 quail which are all 3 nearly 4 weeks old I need to find the exact colour type and gender they are (if possible) need quail experts to help, if gender identification is impossible name the type of colour it is italian ect..thank you

 

[Quailobsessed]

Thank you!
I tried to keep a male flock, either, but they were so mean. Didn't take long and the cage was a bloody mess. I wasn't that experienced in my beginnings.
Was a hard way to learn.

Now, that I am breeding much more numbers, I try harvest males before the big battles are starting.
And yes, I harvest them coresponding to EU laws, human and fast.

Always not easy, but better as waiting till you collect dead birds out of the cages.
My grandfather was a farmer and there living depended on lifestock. He always teached me not to waste anything... big war generation

It sounds like you are doing a great job with your quails

Keeping male flocks is worse if they are harming each other.

There are benefits to harvesting your own birds. One is that you know they're being treated well. I'm not sure what the meat industry is like where you are, but I wouldn't say it's great here. There are still plenty of animals living in horrible conditions.

Yes, I don't do it, but I'm in an suburban area (where in Australia it's illegal to kill your own animals). I'm not judging anyone who does

 

[Ruskin_Roost]

Sell them was planning to eat them

I think it is common, once you become attached they feel like pets!

 

[FloorCandy]

This is why I put the young roosters close to my bedroom for one night. It is easier to get rid of them when they are annoying you the whole time.

Haha haha, when we hear crowing now, my husband is like, that’s quail for “me next!”

 

[FloorCandy]

Is the female okay!?!

She is, I thought she was dead because she was just laying there, I grabbed the male so he couldn’t blend back into the flock, and when I picked her up I felt her move a bit. After about 2 or 3 minutes she was up and alert, and she has been fine since. She did have a cut up between her eyes, but it’s just tiny and healing fine. Maybe she was playing dead so he would go away haha, I’m not sure because right after I was focused on catching the bad bird.

 

[Nabiki]

Do you think incubation temps can affect chick sex in quail?
I know higher chicken incubation temps are "supposed" to produce more males.

None of the scientific papers I've read have found this to be the case. The experiments have been done.

 

[Quailobsessed]

Don't condem me, ... I ate them

Too many or over agressive birds are going to freezer camp.
As every breeder has too much roos, it is nearly impossible to find a new home, beside it has a special color or is a Celadon

Nobody should be condemned by others on here We all have different circumstances and different ways of dealing with them. As long as you did it in a humane way (which I know you would have). No bird should have to suffer, no matter how short their life is or whether they end up on the dinner table.

 

[FloorCandy]

I have 4 roos and 16 hens with names ... I became attached to them and they will have their natural span of life.
Even they are causing problems, like the Pearl Fee named "Snowflake (Snowy)", now living alone, after heavily injured 3 other hens.

All others (at the moment 45 birds) are just the "boys and girls".
I try not to get too attached to them

Only about 1/3 of ours have names, others have general descriptions like bandy, is the only one with his baby band still on his leg, tux, turkey etc.

We had a bad troublemaker, I pulled him Saturday when I went out to feed them and he was almost killing my favorite. He ripped out a ton of feathers trying to breed, she was screaming, the feathers came out and she flew up and hit the top hard and was knocked unconscious. I had seen some evidence of that bird creating some bad energy, but no violence before that. I kept him in the big brooder, and chose 3 other of the wilds (naughty flyers) I could tell are male and I invited them all to a bbq. It’s easier when they’ve hurt others, you can draw the line in your head, like all he had to do was be a nice guy.

 

[Pandaisy]

Only about 1/3 of ours have names, others have general descriptions like bandy, is the only one with his baby band still on his leg, tux, turkey etc.

We had a bad troublemaker, I pulled him Saturday when I went out to feed them and he was almost killing my favorite. He ripped out a ton of feathers trying to breed, she was screaming, the feathers came out and she flew up and hit the top hard and was knocked unconscious. I had seen some evidence of that bird creating some bad energy, but no violence before that. I kept him in the big brooder, and chose 3 other of the wilds (naughty flyers) I could tell are male and I invited them all to a bbq. It’s easier when they’ve hurt others, you can draw the line in your head, like all he had to do was be a nice guy.

This is why I put the young roosters close to my bedroom for one night. It is easier to get rid of them when they are annoying you the whole time.

 

[Quailobsessed]

She is, I thought she was dead because she was just laying there, I grabbed the male so he couldn’t blend back into the flock, and when I picked her up I felt her move a bit. After about 2 or 3 minutes she was up and alert, and she has been fine since. She did have a cut up between her eyes, but it’s just tiny and healing fine. Maybe she was playing dead so he would go away haha, I’m not sure because right after I was focused on catching the bad bird.

That's a relief!