when can I put my baby quail with the older ones!

[Kylesquails]

Give him his own hens and cage i hav,nt had anyluck with 2 roos together?

 

[floppawap]

Okay so I spoke with my breeder where I got my quails from she said they should be okay to put the nearly 5week old in with my older (11 weeks). I observed them all straight away. My dominant male pounced repeately onto the chicks. I grabbed him but he wouldnt let go. It was scary I can't bare to watch. Funny thing is he is the tamest out of them all. I can pick him up & sit him on my lap. He loves cuddles and wont struggle to get away. So I ended up putting him the guinea pig/rabbit hutch on his own. I dont know what to do because I don't want him locked up in the hutch for the rest of his life. My other male seems relaxed now knowing hes not getting hassled. He is also okay with the new chicks. I guess he would be now having 4 fenales to himself. I am thinking of building some sort of run for the dominant rooster & put him with some new hens around his age. Or mix the females up a bit. I'm attached to this rooster & want to give him the best. If anyone can help im open to suggestions.

Give him his own hens and cage i hav,nt had anyluck with 2 roos together?

 

Thanks! I am off to get some more hens very soon.

 

[FenDruadin]

Not to be ugly but... in my experience, breeders often don't have a clue what they're talking about. They consider losses, bare heads, and injuries to be "normal" and acceptable, and it doesn't occur to them that these things can be prevented through proper management.

You did great to observe, and remove the attacker. Keep a close eye on them. Brutal violence can break out very suddenly and catastrophically.

Good luck. I hope the rest of your intro goes smoothly. You may have better luck than most because of the gradual introduction and the fact that you have a good amount of space for them. I'll be curious to learn if those things make a difference for you.

 

[Garrisonkidsduo2]

Not to be ugly but... in my experience, breeders often don't have a clue what they're talking about. They consider losses, bare heads, and injuries to be "normal" and acceptable, and it doesn't occur to them that these things can be prevented through proper management.

You did great to observe, and remove the attacker. Keep a close eye on them. Brutal violence can break out very suddenly and catastrophically.

Good luck. I hope the rest of your intro goes smoothly. You may have better luck than most because of the gradual introduction and the fact that you have a good amount of space for them. I'll be curious to learn if those things make a difference for you.

I agree quail will fight till the death we put ours in a separate cage and put it right next to our main cage where we want them to end up and let them see each other through the wire for about 2 weeks and it does take the edge off the new introduction and takes down some of the violence and there was hardly any injuries and fights. We had one female that went after one of the younger males and got him pretty good but when we took her and put her in the cage so she was looked at and put her back in there the next day things were fine them. Quail are brutal.

 

[Garrisonkidsduo2]

And I agree with iamcuriositycat because breeders most of them only care about what they are making on their stock. I breed BCM and Blue CM and Cayuga ducks and quail and Molted Jap. Bantams but all my birds are fat and healthy and have the room to run and are not confined. None of my birds have any kind of injuries.

 

[laseterlass]

I refuse to sell less than a quad for breeding and prefer 4 to 1. I visited a breeder the other day. It was clean and in a warm house. BUT the poor birds were cramped and beat up! I know mine are spoiled rotten but that was horrible.

 

[Garrisonkidsduo2]

I refuse to sell less than a quad for breeding and prefer 4 to 1. I visited a breeder the other day. It was clean and in a warm house. BUT the poor birds were cramped and beat up! I know mine are spoiled rotten but that was horrible.

Ours are kept in cages but they are big cages and are moved around the yard and they are close to the ground where the grass will grow up and though the wire. They also have a pan that has dirt in it that is changed at least once a week that they just love to dust in. None of ours are missing any feathers or nothing, We have a 3 to 4 to 1 ratio but they are kept where they have room to run jump and fly, yes we have large cages. We like to make sure they are healthy and happy.

 

[Lupa Duende]

Five females to one male is what most people recommend for quails. They can be quite rough with females if you have fewer.
Males are horrid to one another; if you have the means to keep them separated, do so. I think five weeks is perhaps a bit young ro be dealing with the eleven weekers. Moreover, outcast females can remain with the young male if he is too often alons.

 

[floppawap]

Im getting different ratio's for how many hens to 1male ive read 3females. Then its 5. Does anyone know exactly ive looked on the net too.everyone says different.

 

[robopetz]

I've always heard 3:1 never heard 5:1 till this thread.