I hatched 8 quails about 6 months ago. Ratio is 1 male to 4 females. This morning I noticed two of my females heads were bloody (like not just a little bit, unsure if they will make it) and my two males had blood all over their beaks. I know quail can get aggressive when there is lack of food or water, and the quail made a mess in their enclosure this morning and spilled their food. I’m wondering if that’s what did it for my two males. Anyway, I separated my girls and the males as well. I’m seriously considering culling them. One of my males is an English white which are known for being aggressive. My girls are my priority and if that means the mean males have to go that’s what will end up happening. Would you cull if this happened to you? Part of me wants to just keep them in a different enclosure forever. I’m unfortunately familiar with culling quail but it’s never easy to make the decision

I was letting my quails out, and just watching them. I only had 7, so it’s pretty easy to keep track and they were in a small enclosure. I counted them all, and just a minute later I counted again and ONE WAS MISSING so I started searching the leaves and she wasn’t there! I heard no flapping and I had my eye on them the entire time so I have no idea what happened. Me and my mom searched for a long time and found no trace. I hope she’ll come back for her siblings :,(

So last night my brooder heater was working. I checked on the babies I had only 2 (my hatch rate was small due to using older eggs) and my 3rd chick hatched late and died the 2nd night. So I went from 3 to 2. I checked their feed, water and made sure the heater was warm before I went to bed. I woke up to pack my husband's lunch at 4:30am and noticed the babies weren't peeping. It caught my attention and I immediately went to check on them. My brooder quit working through the night! One of the two babies was already gone and the other was stiff but still alive.

I held it for a while until I warmed it back up some and popped her into the incubator for the steady heat supply. She is back up and moving like normal just a little sleepy today. She's peeping, drinking and pecking at food...

I've never raised a single quail, i know they are social birds... but I've put my whole heart into saving it... will it survive being an only chick or am i setting myself up for a long game of heartbreak? I don't have anywhere near me I can get another baby and the rest of my quail are adults.

How many jumbo quail can I fit in a 6x2x2 cage?

I have a small garden with a space around 5ft by 5ft for a quail set up, however it’s really difficult to find a suitable cage. Does anyone have a recommendations? UK based

I live in southern Illinois near St Louis so there is a lot of wind I was thinking of putting this cage

Into my carport but I don't know if that's enough shelter Will it be ok during winter?

So a little back story. i was putting some masonite board on the coop because quails started to peel off the aluminum insulation so they could peck at the foam... That not the issue. the issue is: while i was doing that, one of my Hen just jumped out.

I was able to catch her fairly easily but when i was about to put her back with the other, i noticed there was blood on my hand. A little panicked (not the best thing to calm down a bird 1know but couldn't help it) i brought the bird inside and examined her.

The blood seemed to come from her leg and when she was moving she had that leg trail back, so i had her leg soak in soapy water and test if her leg seemed broken. She was able to hold her weight on her leg if i set her up correctly but if she moved forward she would fall off and had that leg trail again.

After i did my best to clean up the wound, i burito wrapped her to examine her feet. the injurie looked like an scab at the bottom of her feet that was peeling off; it did fell off after i took the picture.

I put some antibacterial ointment (that dont have painkiller in it) and isolated her in rabbit cage and set it, with food and clear water, in a isolated room.

Other than applying the ointment every day. is there something else i can do? how long do those kind of injurie take to heal for a quail? Should i put more protein in her feed (like dried mealworm?)

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I killed my quail cuz it was sick, didn’t wanna waste it, so I ate it right after killing but then my friend said I needed to wait a few days for all the chemicals and rigor mortis to leave…

I have four 5 week old male quail in a hutch together currently. They are all from the same hatching and have stayed together since. I witnessed one crow this morning which let me know they are reaching sexual maturity.

My question is do I need to separate them now or will they be fine since they've been together from the beginning? There are no females in the hutch and I haven't witnessed any aggression as of yet.

EDIT: Thank you for all the input, it was very educational. We have decided to build more housing so we can keep all the roos separated and just get more hens for them 👍

I have 3 quails (1 male, 2 females) and planning on getting 1 or 2 more females, right now they live inside, I clean their enclosure once a week

Their new enclosure is almost finished, it's only missing the door and the window, it's a 2mx3m concrete room, the outside floor is also concrete so I'm wondering if it would be possible to clean easily bc I won't have a yard to wash off the dirt to, I also don't know how to clean it and also what I'm gonna cover the floor with, straw? dirt? both? Any tips are welcomed

I don't mind having to clean it like every few months but I would really like for it to be low(er) maintenance

Hi everyone, a new quailer here. Sorry for bad English and this long post.

tldr: i posted previously about an aggressive rooster not too long ago, now there is a similar problem but with a hen, am i doing something wrong? Is there a disease or something that makes quails go nuts?

i started raising quails a couple of months ago (maybe 2 months now) i got 6 quails, the guy i got them from suggested 1 roo per 2 hens, so i got 2 roos and 4 hens, he said the hens need a bit more than a week to lay eggs. But foe some reason the layed 3 eggs the first day. I used on old quail cage, but i didn't like it since it was small with no dirt box.

Later i started hearing noises from the cage like the quails are running around in it and at some point i there was injuries and i saw blood on the feeder. It was an aggressive rooster that kept attacking the others and at some poit they stopped laying eggs (might have been a light issue), i posted about it here and the suggestion was to cull him, so i removed him to another place since the other male wasn't doing his job and wanted fertilized egga to hatch them.

After some time of removing the aggressive rooster and with proper lighting they started laying eggs at a good rate, and the other previously inactive roo, is now doing his job. and i finished building them a bigger cage with a small dirt box. Its been tow days since, and now there's another aggressive quail, a hen this time, it keeps attacking the others, the roo seems to be trying to stop her but he couldn't keep up. No quail uses the feeder while shes at it, rarly the enter the dirt box if she's in it.

Today i figured that maybe the other aggressive rooster can keep up with her, so i moved her there, and he tried but was obliterated, like a couple minutes in and he's running around the cage, in less than an hour the roo is bleeding.

So what could be the problem? Are they stressed because of the new cage? Does anyone know what's wrong?

Thank you so much for your time.