WHAT is wrong with this quail?!?

[quiltnchik]

One of the Coturnix chicks that hatched today is psycho and I'm wondering if this is normal behavior. S/he is attempting to eat everyone's toes, including his/her own! I've seen him/her eat the crumbles (I put them in the food processor and made them like sand), but s/he much prefers toes and is like a little alligator when s/he latches on! What is going on?!?

 

[shelleyd2008]

They're just wierd like that.

 

[quiltnchik]

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Weird isn't the word! *LoL* My DH had already "named" them - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc., but since there are 8 of them, I told him he'd have more than a week's worth. However, when this chick started trying to eat toes, I told DH he was about to lose his "extra" meal!

Will it injure the other chicks or is it okay to just let it attempt to eat everyone's toes?

 

[quail newbie]

We had a little a&m like that so I built a wall with my sons duplo blocks and put him in solitary confinement

A few days later we put him with some jumbo's that were a few days older and they kept him in line for a while. Last week the same bird (now an adult) was running around like a psyco attacking all of the birds both male and female so I put him in a box and gave him to a friend with no other birds. The guy I got the eggs from said in the 25 years he's had quail he has had 3 that he had to put down because of how many other chicks they killed. In one case it wiped out half a dozen within an hour.

 

[shelleyd2008]

It can injure the others, but I haven't ever had one do so. You can try a red light if you don't already have one, so if it does hurt somebody, the others won't be attracted to the blood. But I doubt it will do that much damage.

 

[JJMR794]

Just Splash A Lil Bourbon In The Water Font When You Fill It--- He'll Settle Down..

 

[rbar]

I don;t know if that will TOTALLY solve the problem, but I LIKE the way you think!

RBar

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[JewellFarm]

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[JJMR794]

It Lasts A While, Cause After He Burns Off The Bourbon And The Hangover Hits His Head Will Hurt Too Much To Peck!


On A Serious Note Tho.... He Sounds Like A Healthy Normal Quail.