So my female coturnix have figured out how to avoid mating

[NancyDz]

I have one cage that has vertical bars with some A&M's in it, one male and 3 female. Well today I'm out there feeding and watering them and notice that the male keeps trying to mate but the females put their head outside the wire and the male cant grab on to them! So he keeps falling off cuz he cant grab the head feathers!

I thought that was the funniest thing and i saw more than one female do it ... smart little birds heheheeee I wonder if the eggs from there are fertile? I'll have to check lol

 

[Rootball]

buy him a little tiny set of handcuffs and a little tiny whip.

 

[dinahmay]

I had to chuckle at this. My first female was bald and I had to move her into a separate cage from the one male I had. Now she is with a younger male and chases him around!

 

[calgal98]

Well, that explains a lot of the behaviors at my pens. The birds sleep with their heads through the bars! *not tonite dear, I have a headache*!!
I couldn't figure out what was going on.

 

[monarc23]

haha awh!!! i'm sure he gets them sometimes enogh that the eggs are fertile im sure

this reminds me...I saw my one pair of pigeons TRYING to mate today, it was so halarious! He jumped up way too high on her back he was basically on her neck.. and she was just walking around with him trying ot mate her like that... it looked like they were trying to do stunts it was halarious he finnaly got flustered and hopped off and she flew away from him

 

[NancyDz]

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Are you related to Saddina?? That sounds like something she'd say

too funny

 

[NancyDz]

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hehehehee yea I had seen them laying with their heads outside... I never realized what they were doing until I saw it happening today . That will end soon though as I'm moving this weekend and they will all be behind small hardware cloth because of more predators.

 

[NancyDz]

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STUNT PIGEONS!!!

 

[becky3086]

I put a plant(plastic) in my pen so that the females had a place to hide, at least sometimes from the males, the males are quite aggressive.

 

[saddina]

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Are you related to Saddina?? That sounds like something she'd say

too funny

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