I wrote a wall of text, then realized I was just saying we are following this and it’s working. Except for one gold that has anxiety and gets stressed with others, so can’t be in a group. He live in his own penthouse. Time to cull a few spares. Thanks for the video
We add pine / fir branches to the corners of the cages and it seems to make the quail so happy. They have a little space to hide in and "surrender" or when they get startled instead of running in circles around the cage and upsetting EVERYONE. Plus it makes it smell nicer and they like to eat the needles.
My aggressive quail was loud and proud about it even before full maturity. He recruited a side kick. We have an aviary setup of sorts and it was incredible to see how they teamed up and literally dominated half the space. No other quail dared to enter that section. We released them to the woods. Much happier environment now for the remaining 18.
If they were coturnix, releasing them into the wild was a death sentence in and of itself. They are not native to this land, and that causes other problems.
@@VeysPlacetechnically they are native but not like out n about as they used to be, been farmed up, but yes ur right, would be a death sentence atleast today, but honestly I kinda felt this, some the birds I be dealing with trying to introduce new ones are just too much of an ass hole, so I don’t even care
Great info. Nice looking helper you have there. Thank you for taking the time to make these video's. They are greatly appreciated. Y'all have a blessed day.
Only a few years with Coturnix quail, but I've found that feeding chicken layer feed stops the aggression - but it also stops the quail from laying. I have not tried this yet, but I plan to isolate the males from the flock part of each day - with layer feed, and the hens with high protein feed.
Any bird that physically injures another quail goes to freezer camp - male or female. Very little tolerance for that as I have lost several other birds to bad behaviors. Seems to be some breed tendencies as well.
I was having this issue in my grow out pen, I gave them a small box on it's side and some hay and it all but stopped. I can tell when they have knock all the hay through the bottom because I can hear the fighting start back up.
@@MyshireFarm thank you for the reply! But it's already 3 quails per sq ft and all of them are hens and im giving them 16 hours of lighting (i've been following your channel since ive started quail farming that's why i'm already using this parameters 😁)
Quail aggression is too common for me. I started with six quail five weeks ago and the cage I built is one foot high by 6 feet long and 2 feet deep with a center barrier with two openings, three water bottles get changed daily, one long tube feeder, three inverted Frisby's with mash/pellet mixture 22% protein quail/pheasant feed, and three dusting boxes with sides and roof (one side open). One hen was killed overnight. A few days later another hen had all the skin and feathers pecked off her head overnight. Then one hen's eyes were pecked out. I closed the mid-cage barrier to use half of the cage as an isolation ward. There are so many TH-cam videos on quail aggression that I think it's a universal problem with them. Maybe too much inbreeding? But I read aggression is a problem in almost all breeds of captive quail. If it weren't for so many neighborhood cats roaming around at night, I'd let the rest go free in my fenced-in back yard. So, the option I chose is to stop keeping quail. The aggression is not something I can tolerate in pets. I'll continue to ground feed four wild quail that visit my front yard every morning and night and I'll keep my six chickens that never fight. Sad . . . I really liked the idea of having quail.
I have two that are very loud very aggressive pecked a few hens in the face both are male I pulled them from the coop a few mins ago if they act the same when I put them back tomorrow the will be lunch
I have a quail who is 1 week old and he es aggressive I even found one quail dead . I’m not sure but I think the quail killed the other . The aggressive quail keeps pecking the rest of the quails . What can I do . Should I just 😵 or separate it ? There one week old so it’s concerning me to lose another quail because of this aggressive one . Should they be exhibiting territory issues this young
Thanks for the video! How do i know the difference between aggression and the bird trying to mate? My birds are 5 weeks old and I’ve noticed one male likes to grab them by the head feathers. I haven’t seen any blood yet. But I’m wondering if I should start to separate them. Reasons 1-3 are fine.
I have 3 males (hatch and born up togeather) they are about 8 weeks Old now, and now one is starting to jump and panik and attack the to other ones. They have food and water all the time, get Greens and seeds as supliment. They have about 1,6 spuarefoot spuarefood. I want to keep Them for future color groups (one is Rosetta, one is sparkley and one is Rosetta sparkley pharao) im currently trying to disorientat Them, but im having a instinct thought that it May accor becaurse they live in one Rabbits cage devided by corck, where the other Half of the Rabbits cage is occupied by a 1/3 ratio fawn group (2 Italien hens, a Machurian hen and a Machurian rooster) i have observe Them alot and it seems (no clue if im right) that the fighting amongs the male group comes out of frustration that they cant get to the hen’s. So i Will try to make a temporary test, where i take 2 of the females an on of the males from the batchlor group and put Them togeather in a cat transporter, to see if it helps to get the “Steem” from the males out of Them. My teori is pretty human i guess, all men get mudy if they dont get the bib taken out of Them once in a wile.😂 its pretty natural for animals to, due to breeding seeson to get aggressive in that time. I i feell alittle that im making pscykic torture by having Them so close to the females but they cant get to Them🫣😅 So now im going to test it with the quails. Becaurse i accturealy doe Think thats the problem here. If it works i Will share the experiment on my Instagram. Coturnix_lua. 😊 if you or others have any sugestions for this “test” you are all welcome to write to it. Im pretty new in quail so i dont know if anyone have experience in this test. Any sugestions are welcome. I just cant Seem to find somthing on male groups alone. Only this video and doe it great info ❤ its dont Seem ti be the problem im having. 🤷🏼♀️ LOVE your video’s have help me alot especialy acording to the color types. By the Way: prett son you have there, he is going to be a Heart breaker 😜 Keep up the good work your all helping bevise like me ALOT❤❤
So you recommend 3 quail per square foot? Does that mean my cage (24" x 36", so 6 square feet) should be stocked to 18 quail? Just wondering if I'm understanding right! I got my eggs from you (thank you by the way!) And I'm having aggression issues. I've culled so many due to scalped heads/males who won't calm down. Right now I have 5 girls and 1 male in each of my cages, wondering if I need to give them more space or add more quail in. My head hurts from trying to figure it out, LOL!
I have 6 quail who have been getting along just fine now all of a sudden this one is picking on two of the other ones why is he doing this I took him out and put him by himself and all the rest are getting along just fine
Overnight the real big male jumbo brutalized a hen. All bloody and a .5 centimeter of skin gone and bone showing. Looks gruesome and not sure about eye either. Got her inside and he may end up in the freezer if he starts on another hen. He was pecking me at a young age so just may be a bully and had named him Peckerhead😂. Not crowded but 3 because incubator fell with the first batch and lost the rest in the crash. Newly matured though now. The rest are still too young to put together. She's calmer separated now and hope she heals up.
@@VeysPlace I learned too many males I grow out for freezer camp. On last batch incubating before winter to fill up cages. When they first mature is a problem and lost a few females since so extra in with males.
hi i have a strange problem thought i had sorted it before.. One of the italian quail use to chase the other chicks around getting them going nuts, but it soon calmed down. Until today the chicks are older coming into adult colours. The same italian quail is singling out the older female so strange why would it do this?
My male is picking on the hens,he killed 1 and now injured the female which has a bad wound on neck,I have 1 hen left but he likes her.I don't know if I can get rid of him
I have 5 girls and the biggest hen pecked the smallest ones eye. I've separated in an adjacent run so she can still see the others. Once she's healed up can I move her back in?
Hello. I really wish you could help me out. I've been raising 2 female quails for 9 months now. They've been best friends since day one and they enjoy each other's company. Suddenly one day, one of the female quails laid an egg without a shell, and after that moment, suddenly she became aggressive towards the other quail. Because of that I can't keep them together anymore, it became so dangerous for the bullied one. So I separated them. But I really want to know how I can stop this aggression and put them together like before. Sorry for the long story and hope you can help.
I would change the feed for 2 weeks, put the aggressive one in with the tame one after 2 weeks and watch for about 20 min. That should fix your problem
Hi zack, i have a odd problem with one of my hens she was fine in the pen for a long time. Then i put in my pansy in while they were chicks still everything fine as the roo got mature it and the other rosetta roo have been attacking her over and over. I took the pansy roo out thinking things would settle down, but when i the hen put back in she was badly attacked again iv no idea why?
I have 1 male 4 female. They just reached maturity. Only 1 laying eggs and male has been on her. But today he has become aggressive towards all female. Not sure why, but has really hurt one of my females. I don’t know what to do. This is my only flock.
Not specifically about aggressive quail, but for your two jumbo lines is your original stock from James Marie? Also I was wondering what exactly your breeding program is to avoid inbreeding depression? Do you clan mate?
We do many different breeding programs here to ensure that our quail are happy and healthy. Our lines do not come from JMF. We have many cages and have a specific schedule to keep them healthy genetically
@@MyshireFarm Thanks for the reply! Idk if you have a video on this already or not, although I’ve tried to look, but maybe in the future you could do a more in-depth breeding program video. I’ve always clan mated with other poultry species to keep genetics healthy. Would love to know how y’all do it :)
My male quail killed a female quail and has started trying to hurt another femail quail these two were different color then the rest but all hatched together. I have 4 female 1 male. The female is seperate from the rest but when I put her in he's right back on her and non stop. Will she be ok by herself.
She will be ok by herself but that male either needs to be replaced or you can separate him instead for about 12 hours and put him back in and see if he is calmer
@@MyshireFarm he's fine with the 3 females. I left her out for a week and put her back in there and he was just non stop attacking. I take her out and all is normal. I'll take him out next just trying to get eggs fertilized.
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Thank you for this! Love the addition of your handsome son! What a nice little extra. 💗
Glad it helped and yeah I think we will
Keep him around hahahaha
I wrote a wall of text, then realized I was just saying we are following this and it’s working. Except for one gold that has anxiety and gets stressed with others, so can’t be in a group. He live in his own penthouse. Time to cull a few spares. Thanks for the video
We add pine / fir branches to the corners of the cages and it seems to make the quail so happy. They have a little space to hide in and "surrender" or when they get startled instead of running in circles around the cage and upsetting EVERYONE. Plus it makes it smell nicer and they like to eat the needles.
Perfect timing on this upload, I have a recently matured male that spends more time on top of other quail than the ground.
Great glad it could help
perhaps he needs more hens, as his sex drive is greater than the hens.
GREAT VIDEO -- your son carried you past the finish line! GREAT JOB!
I know right
My aggressive quail was loud and proud about it even before full maturity. He recruited a side kick. We have an aviary setup of sorts and it was incredible to see how they teamed up and literally dominated half the space. No other quail dared to enter that section. We released them to the woods. Much happier environment now for the remaining 18.
If they were coturnix, releasing them into the wild was a death sentence in and of itself. They are not native to this land, and that causes other problems.
@@VeysPlacetechnically they are native but not like out n about as they used to be, been farmed up, but yes ur right, would be a death sentence atleast today, but honestly I kinda felt this, some the birds I be dealing with trying to introduce new ones are just too much of an ass hole, so I don’t even care
@@DommyMommyTGirlnothing goes to waste in nature.
Too bad there isn't a "float test" for this type of bad egg 😁 Great info as always, Zack. Excellent sidekick son.
Thanks for watching
Great info. Nice looking helper you have there. Thank you for taking the time to make these video's. They are greatly appreciated. Y'all have a blessed day.
Thank you
Only a few years with Coturnix quail, but I've found that feeding chicken layer feed stops the aggression - but it also stops the quail from laying. I have not tried this yet, but I plan to isolate the males from the flock part of each day - with layer feed, and the hens with high protein feed.
Good luck
Thank you Zach... came at great time. Had 1 aggressive Male, had to cull 2 he hurt
Glad it could help
In your facebook group 😅 good to know you have a channel 👌🏼
Glad we can help
Any bird that physically injures another quail goes to freezer camp - male or female. Very little tolerance for that as I have lost several other birds to bad behaviors. Seems to be some breed tendencies as well.
I haven't found the culprit that killed a hen overnight.
Thanks for it info. Great lookin man u got thear I know he's alot of help
Thanks !!
Thanks for watching
I was having this issue in my grow out pen, I gave them a small box on it's side and some hay and it all but stopped. I can tell when they have knock all the hay through the bottom because I can hear the fighting start back up.
Absolutely
The problem with my quails that is when they see blood they start picking it until the injured quail dies. I've already lost 3 hens!
That can happen. 3 quail per sq ft, 5 hens to 1 male and 16-18 hours of light a day should help
@@MyshireFarm thank you for the reply! But it's already 3 quails per sq ft and all of them are hens and im giving them 16 hours of lighting (i've been following your channel since ive started quail farming that's why i'm already using this parameters 😁)
Thanks
Np
Quail aggression is too common for me. I started with six quail five weeks ago and the cage I built is one foot high by 6 feet long and 2 feet deep with a center barrier with two openings, three water bottles get changed daily, one long tube feeder, three inverted Frisby's with mash/pellet mixture 22% protein quail/pheasant feed, and three dusting boxes with sides and roof (one side open). One hen was killed overnight. A few days later another hen had all the skin and feathers pecked off her head overnight. Then one hen's eyes were pecked out. I closed the mid-cage barrier to use half of the cage as an isolation ward. There are so many TH-cam videos on quail aggression that I think it's a universal problem with them. Maybe too much inbreeding? But I read aggression is a problem in almost all breeds of captive quail. If it weren't for so many neighborhood cats roaming around at night, I'd let the rest go free in my fenced-in back yard. So, the option I chose is to stop keeping quail. The aggression is not something I can tolerate in pets. I'll continue to ground feed four wild quail that visit my front yard every morning and night and I'll keep my six chickens that never fight. Sad . . . I really liked the idea of having quail.
It is because they had way too much room
I have two that are very loud very aggressive pecked a few hens in the face both are male I pulled them from the coop a few mins ago if they act the same when I put them back tomorrow the will be lunch
Sometimes that needs to happen.
I have a quail who is 1 week old and he es aggressive I even found one quail dead . I’m not sure but I think the quail killed the other . The aggressive quail keeps pecking the rest of the quails . What can I do . Should I just 😵 or separate it ? There one week old so it’s concerning me to lose another quail because of this aggressive one . Should they be exhibiting territory issues this young
I have never see aggression in quail until at least week 3
Thanks for the video! How do i know the difference between aggression and the bird trying to mate? My birds are 5 weeks old and I’ve noticed one male likes to grab them by the head feathers. I haven’t seen any blood yet. But I’m wondering if I should start to separate them. Reasons 1-3 are fine.
You will loose head feathers for mating. If you start to see back feathers missing or blood that is when I would separate.
I have 3 males (hatch and born up togeather) they are about 8 weeks Old now, and now one is starting to jump and panik and attack the to other ones. They have food and water all the time, get Greens and seeds as supliment. They have about 1,6 spuarefoot spuarefood. I want to keep Them for future color groups (one is Rosetta, one is sparkley and one is Rosetta sparkley pharao) im currently trying to disorientat Them, but im having a instinct thought that it May accor becaurse they live in one Rabbits cage devided by corck, where the other Half of the Rabbits cage is occupied by a 1/3 ratio fawn group (2 Italien hens, a Machurian hen and a Machurian rooster) i have observe Them alot and it seems (no clue if im right) that the fighting amongs the male group comes out of frustration that they cant get to the hen’s.
So i Will try to make a temporary test, where i take 2 of the females an on of the males from the batchlor group and put Them togeather in a cat transporter, to see if it helps to get the “Steem” from the males out of Them.
My teori is pretty human i guess, all men get mudy if they dont get the bib taken out of Them once in a wile.😂 its pretty natural for animals to, due to breeding seeson to get aggressive in that time. I i feell alittle that im making pscykic torture by having Them so close to the females but they cant get to Them🫣😅
So now im going to test it with the quails. Becaurse i accturealy doe Think thats the problem here.
If it works i Will share the experiment on my Instagram. Coturnix_lua. 😊 if you or others have any sugestions for this “test” you are all welcome to write to it.
Im pretty new in quail so i dont know if anyone have experience in this test. Any sugestions are welcome. I just cant Seem to find somthing on male groups alone. Only this video and doe it great info ❤ its dont Seem ti be the problem im having. 🤷🏼♀️
LOVE your video’s have help me alot especialy acording to the color types.
By the Way: prett son you have there, he is going to be a Heart breaker 😜
Keep up the good work your all helping bevise like me ALOT❤❤
Good luck and I will keep an eye out for it
So you recommend 3 quail per square foot? Does that mean my cage (24" x 36", so 6 square feet) should be stocked to 18 quail? Just wondering if I'm understanding right! I got my eggs from you (thank you by the way!) And I'm having aggression issues. I've culled so many due to scalped heads/males who won't calm down. Right now I have 5 girls and 1 male in each of my cages, wondering if I need to give them more space or add more quail in. My head hurts from trying to figure it out, LOL!
Yes 3 quail per sq ft. And that should resolve the issues
@@MyshireFarm thank you very much! I will try that!
Very smart cute handsome son
Thank you
I have 6 quail who have been getting along just fine now all of a sudden this one is picking on two of the other ones why is he doing this I took him out and put him by himself and all the rest are getting along just fine
Freezer camp helps
Absolutely
Overnight the real big male jumbo brutalized a hen. All bloody and a .5 centimeter of skin gone and bone showing. Looks gruesome and not sure about eye either. Got her inside and he may end up in the freezer if he starts on another hen. He was pecking me at a young age so just may be a bully and had named him Peckerhead😂. Not crowded but 3 because incubator fell with the first batch and lost the rest in the crash. Newly matured though now. The rest are still too young to put together. She's calmer separated now and hope she heals up.
He should go in freezer camp, as that is where he would be if he was mine.
@@VeysPlace I learned too many males I grow out for freezer camp. On last batch incubating before winter to fill up cages. When they first mature is a problem and lost a few females since so extra in with males.
I have a new hen that just charges at every other quail and pecks them in the face. Currently separated. Pretty much opposite of what was explained.
Take all out in a box with no light and put back in and that should fix it
Without watching the video...eat it!
Agreed but most of the time it is environmental
How to get a good quail poducion
Make a specific breeding program stick with and have high standards. Food, lights and genetics are the keys
hi i have a strange problem thought i had sorted it before.. One of the italian quail use to chase the other chicks around getting them going nuts, but it soon calmed down. Until today the chicks are older coming into adult colours. The same italian quail is singling out the older female so strange why would it do this?
Could be he is playful, aggressive or mature and wanting to mate
My male is picking on the hens,he killed 1 and now injured the female which has a bad wound on neck,I have 1 hen left but he likes her.I don't know if I can get rid of him
You need to make sure it is 5 hens to 1 male and if that is the case then I would replace that male asap.
In an aviary situation I was thinking 1 bird psf. Is that right? 49 square foot aviary with 15 hens and 6 roosters. Is that ok?
It would be more like 2-3 quail per sq ft. At 1 per sq ft you will run into lack of fertility issues
I have 5 girls and the biggest hen pecked the smallest ones eye. I've separated in an adjacent run so she can still see the others. Once she's healed up can I move her back in?
Yes but take the others out and put her in the cage first
Hello. I really wish you could help me out.
I've been raising 2 female quails for 9 months now. They've been best friends since day one and they enjoy each other's company. Suddenly one day, one of the female quails laid an egg without a shell, and after that moment, suddenly she became aggressive towards the other quail. Because of that I can't keep them together anymore, it became so dangerous for the bullied one. So I separated them. But I really want to know how I can stop this aggression and put them together like before.
Sorry for the long story and hope you can help.
I would change the feed for 2 weeks, put the aggressive one in with the tame one after 2 weeks and watch for about 20 min. That should fix your problem
@@MyshireFarm okay so for these 2 weeks I let them stay separated and then put them back together?
Between a week to 2. 2 weeks is a little long.
@@MyshireFarm okayy tysm!
Hi zack, i have a odd problem with one of my hens she was fine in the pen for a long time. Then i put in my pansy in while they were chicks still everything fine as the roo got mature it and the other rosetta roo have been attacking her over and over. I took the pansy roo out thinking things would settle down, but when i the hen put back in she was badly attacked again iv no idea why?
It needs to be 5 hens to 1 male as the males are too aggressive for 1 hen
the two males don't fight as i have a good few hens in a large hutch. But they were attacking one female
I have 1 male 4 female. They just reached maturity. Only 1 laying eggs and male has been on her. But today he has become aggressive towards all female. Not sure why, but has really hurt one of my females. I don’t know what to do. This is my only flock.
Take out the male for 24 hours and put him back in cage. But 5 hens to 1 male is recommended
How can you tell if there's a female button quail and male button quail
I am not familiar with button quail sorry.
Not specifically about aggressive quail, but for your two jumbo lines is your original stock from James Marie? Also I was wondering what exactly your breeding program is to avoid inbreeding depression? Do you clan mate?
We do many different breeding programs here to ensure that our quail are happy and healthy. Our lines do not come from JMF. We have many cages and have a specific schedule to keep them healthy genetically
@@MyshireFarm Thanks for the reply! Idk if you have a video on this already or not, although I’ve tried to look, but maybe in the future you could do a more in-depth breeding program video. I’ve always clan mated with other poultry species to keep genetics healthy. Would love to know how y’all do it :)
My male quail killed a female quail and has started trying to hurt another femail quail these two were different color then the rest but all hatched together. I have 4 female 1 male. The female is seperate from the rest but when I put her in he's right back on her and non stop. Will she be ok by herself.
She will be ok by herself but that male either needs to be replaced or you can separate him instead for about 12 hours and put him back in and see if he is calmer
@@MyshireFarm he's fine with the 3 females. I left her out for a week and put her back in there and he was just non stop attacking. I take her out and all is normal. I'll take him out next just trying to get eggs fertilized.
@@MyshireFarm he's my only male the others escaped lol
3 and one half quail per foot! I guess I have to cut some birds in half! LOLOLOL! 👍🏻👍🏻💯💯
It adds a quail per 2 ft per cage. It adds up if you do cages like we do hahahaha
Thank you, does debeaking help ?
We have never done that. I am not too sure. I have heard it makes birds more aggressive but I do not have any experience with that sorry
So your saying my 9'x9' aviary can comfortably hold 243 quail?!?!
Aviaries are a little different but yes
I have some that beat up any new quail i put in, i think im gonna have 2 eat them soon 😜
They will taste great hahahaha. We do have a blog on our website that shows how to introduce new quail to an existing flock. That might help as well