Sexing quail and colour

[Quailobsessed]

I used to want to breed and sell quails. Whenever my quails bred, I got too attached to the chicks and kept them. I decided I wouldn't sell quails because I didn't know who they were going to or how they would treat my babies. There isn't anything wrong with it (plenty do it and that's fine), I just couldn't part with them

 

[Fenrisulfr]

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

 

[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.

 

[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!”

 

[Quailobsessed]

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.

Is the female okay!?!

 

[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.

 

[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!

 

[Kale the Quail]

i had a male quail who just mauled my female quail, ripping away a layer of skin on the back of her head and almost pecking her eye out. She healed with only a small scar where feathers didn't grow back behind her eye. The male got shipped off along with some other males for someone else to enrol them in freezer camp.

 

[FloorCandy]

i had a male quail who just mauled my female quail, ripping away a layer of skin on the back of her head and almost pecking her eye out. She healed with only a small scar where feathers didn't grow back behind her eye. The male got shipped off along with some other males for someone else to enrol them in freezer camp.

Hahaha