So what's up the the english Whites

[JJMR794]

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I DUNNO MINE HAVE BEEN UNDER LAYING LIGHTS FOR A FEW WEEKS NOW SO ALL THE POUNDING IN THERE IS MAKING FERTILE EGGS...

 

[JJMR794]

MY BOBS ARE ALWAYS NASTY ... AND THATS JUST WHEN THEY ARE ASLEEP... GETS WORSE IF YOU WAKE THEM UP..

PHEASANTS ARE STARTING TO LAY AND HAVE BEEN AGGRESSIVE WITH EACH OTHER FOR 3 WEEKS..

THE WOODIES ARE QUITE TESTY WITH EACH OTHER TOO... THAT WHOLE AVIARY IS LIKE BEING IN A FEATHERED SHARK TANK...

AND I GOT A ROUEN DRAKE THATS FIXIN TO GET A BOOT MANNERS LESSON

THAT BOYS GONNA HAVE TO LEARN... THE EGGS ARE MINE! SORRY ABOUT YOUR LUCK PAL, JUST STAY OVER THERE IN THE CORNER AND WE CAN GET ALONG JUST FINE... OR COME OVER HERE AND ATTACK MY LEGS AGAIN AND WE CAN HAVE A "COMIN' TO JESUS PARTY! YOU PICK IT THERE EINSTIEN....

AND OF COURSE THE RESIDENT PROBLEM CHILD... MY JUMBO RINGNECK PHEASANT MALE THAT MAKES ANY.. I DO MEAN ANY INCURSION INTO HIS PEN A HAZZARD PAY EVENT ( I SWEAR I'D THINK THAT FOOL HAD REEVES BLOOD IN HIS VEINS IF I HADNT BRED HIM MYSELF) CRAZY IDIOT MAKES A MEAN TOM TURKEY LOOK LIKE MOTHER TERESA WITH A FAN!

AND FOR THE LAST 2 DAYS THE BLUE SLATES HAVE BEEN HAVING TITLE BOUTS 3X'S A DAY TO CONTINUALLY TEST THE PECKING ORDER, IF THEY AINT GOBBLING THEIR FIGHTING, AND IF THEY AINT FIGHTIN THEY'RE BREATHING HARD TRYING TO REST UP FOR THE NEXT ROUND

I TELL YA LOVE IS IN THE AIR! ALONG WITH HUNDREDS OF LOOSE FEATHERS

 

[Attack Chicken]

Yeah tell me about it lol! I thought I just had one male coturnix but I think my Tux is a roo to! Gah! Psycho has been chasing around RooRoo my jumbo male all over!

My white hasn't been picked on at all. She just goes about her business

 

[peewee]

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I just bought a pair of mutt turkey hens about a month and a half ago to go with my Blue Slate tom because I could not find anybody around here that had Blue Slate hens. I knew I should have asked you!!!

 

[JJMR794]

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I just bought a pair of mutt turkey hens about a month and a half ago to go with my Blue Slate tom because I could not find anybody around here that had Blue Slate hens. I knew I should have asked you!!!

JUST GOT THE BARE MINIMUM NOW... BUT I SHOULD HAVE EGGS OR POULTS LATER... I'LL TRADE YA AFTER SEASON AS I HAVE A NARANGANSET TOM THAT NEEDS SOME GRILS

 

[Wifezilla]

I have a theory....


Maybe the english whites are really just tiny soccer hooligans

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

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You just don't have enough of them.

Right now my White pen is pretty equal M/F and everyone is happy happy. (Finally moved out the extra brown males). Theres about 22 Whites in that pen, should be considered crowded but they like it just fine. Now the Browns are out more hens are laing. Their going to like it better after this weekend when the extra males take a walk to the dark side (freezer).

Wonder if the Whites are more inclined to be monogamous than the others?

 

[shamblescross]

I'm so happy to find this site!

I recently added 6 English White quail to my collection of Coturnix, and have had nothing but trouble. Of course, this was my first time adding newcomers, and just put them all together. I noticed that they were all still separated two days after the introduction, so I spent some time watching them, though I didn't notice any harmful behaviour. But this morning (3rd after intro) I went to check on them and 4 of the 6 had been beaten up- blood around the beak and ruffled feathers. In the 10 minutes I watched them, my Browns would chase around the Whites. So Now the EWs are in their own pen. I thought maybe if I reversed the introduction, it would work better, so I put one of the browns in with EWs, and within a few minutes, the Brown was being chased. I guess they'll just have to remain separated.

But back to my happiness of finding BYC, I have now read that the proper way to introduce new quail in is to put them within sight of the original group, but separated so that no fighting can occur. We'll see how that works. Or if it's just the EWs being bullies.

 

[Rozzie]

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Zombie...I think one of my nameless boys just found his name....

 

[joe125]

The white coturnix of any size, tend to sexually mature a bit faster than the others. I'm not sure why that is, but they just do. Add to that, the complicated nature of sexing them, then you may have total carnage if you are not paying attention.