What am I doing Wrong?

[JacinLarkwell]

They are 3×2 foot runs with a hide in each to break up line of sight.

I've separated the kind female from the aggressive girl and she seems to be much better mannered with just the male in her space now. It's been a few days, and honestly everyone seems happier from that scenerio.

I still don't know why one of my bat ch lors suddenly turned so aggressive against his buddy. He's behaving now with the female I took from the trio, but I'm getting tired of having so many birds separated in cat carriers. It's taking 3x as long to feed and water individual birds like this. I'm planning to butcher extra males so hopefully I can put everyone back in their enclosures again soon

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'll also add the two batchlor pairs I have are at the bottom of the stack so they are in the dark longer, which I read should cut down on aggression

 

[muans]

culling the aggressive ones is always not that easy but it's always worth it at the end..just keep on culling or sell those aggresive birds if you want to have a happy flock of quail..i suggest you to add some natural objects like branches dry hay something like that inside their runs i kept mine inside a chicken coop and they are doing so well with a solid floor sand bedding

 

[muans]

this is myset up 4x2 feet coop

 

[muans]

they really love the natural set up try this if possible

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I'm not culling my aggressive female. I know I should, but I've decided I just can't. I won't hatch her eggs, but I'm not going to willingly kill the last quail from this batch I'm attached to. I'll keep monitoring the pair and make sure no one shows signs of abuse, and if that means I seperate her come spring so she isn't overbred, I'll deal with it.

My pens are rather hard to put any branches in, but they have shavings so they aren't on slippery wood. Here it's unnatural anyways for quail, so bringing outside elements in probably wouldn't help.

 

[muans]

I'm not culling my aggressive female. I know I should, but I've decided I just can't. I won't hatch her eggs, but I'm not going to willingly kill the last quail from this batch I'm attached to. I'll keep monitoring the pair and make sure no one shows signs of abuse, and if that means I seperate her come spring so she isn't overbred, I'll deal with it.

My pens are rather hard to put any branches in, but they have shavings so they aren't on slippery wood. Here it's unnatural anyways for quail, so bringing outside elements in probably wouldn't help.

that's up to you