How to Keep Quail from Fighting - The SR Quail Update 6-26-17 

"I've been watching them pretty close" *quail proceeds to fly away

One got out on ya bud 😂

I have been watching every single video in this playlist. Absolutely amazing and I can’t believe how much I’ve learned. I am only on the 52nd video there so far a total of 106. I cannot wait to finish the rest. Thank you

4:18 a quail walks right out of the cage

Escape From the Pen - Almost Free: A Quail's Biographic Experience

At 4:20 lolol I don't even smoke, one flew the coop.

I was super concerned about the run away quail，until you finally got her back . I m so relieved now😂😂😂

One of your quail escaped

4:18 "my time to shine, freedom !!"

Came to seenif he got the bird back lol

Been watching your videos for a few weeks and you have alot of great info! In the last year Ive started with about 10 quail and now have over 30 and still learning new info from your videos. Currently have 60 eggs in the incubator to renew my flock. Keep up the good work! 👍👌

Your quail got out are you gonna catch it?

@4:17 Open door,... no one watching,... I'm outta here!

You had a flyaway there

i was wondering if you were gonna notice that one got out lol i laughed so hard lol i have quail in the incubator.. they should be hatching within the next week i am so excited thank you for all the advice

Lol one quail said man I had enough of the drama hens talking about their feathers lol jk

Super excited to start incubating this week! When I first started I really just wanted them for eggs for my reptiles so I got a roo and hen plain Coturnix and a pair of Texas A&M hens. About a month or two into keeping them one Texas A&M hen was getting so badly bullied by the rest that I had to cull her so she wouldn't suffer.. it wasn't only her back of her neck but all over here sides too and it all happened over less than 3 days. I was wondering if it was because she was such a different color but the remaining A&M hen seems just fine for the last few weeks and both are laying great. Either way, we culled and ate her and it made us want to start breeding them for meat so here goes nothing! Watched all your hatch rate videos last night. Thanks!

Also add lots of water jugs, just use any thing to the same room that your incubator is in, as your central a.c. is DRY air, that U sucking on top of your eggs. So add water in your incubator room, raised moisture will keep the eggs OK on the 14 - thru 17 or 23 day hatch for quail eggs. Room MUST Be at least 70 degree's warm as well. You cannot have cold air sucking into, and on your eggs for 17 days, and expect a great hatch.

I have only 6 quail that I have hatched. They are adults now and I am constantly watching for aggression. There is one female that I just love, she is so aggressive that I've had to set up a separate pen for her. Although I give them all visiting rights but keep a watchful eye on them. I am learning from your channel and thank you for your help!

4:18 SWEEEET FREEDOM!!!!

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.

It's a bit late but you tuxedo quail escaped

1 bird escaped when you were talking into the Camera lol

A quail have escaped brother

did you find the excapy lol i get it now from you other video

Very few people realize all eggs must be kept at 50 - 55 degree"s for storage. Just freeze 2 1/2 gallon milk jugs filled only 60 per cent full of water, so the frozen jug wont split open, . and place 1/2 jugs inside of a 1 gallon milk jug cut in half, to catch all sweating water, inside of a large ice chest, and be sure to turn all eggs at least 2 times a day, . prefer every 6 hours, while in storage, before you want to hatch. Remember all eggs will start to incubate at 70 degrees or above. Never store eggs longer than 7 days, and add water inside of the ice chest, to keep humidity high. Don't want embryos to dry out.

4:18 "I'm freeee"

Love how the bird got out!!!

4:17 the quail on the left just sneaks out unnoticed

Amazing video as always! I learn a lot from you, especially English :) Have a nice day!

4:15 Quail used the opportunity

Hi Chris, great video , we need more info about quail leg mites, keep up the good work, greetings from slovenia as always God bless

Thanks for the informative video!

I lost a couple Escaped birds- one flew quite a distance into a neighbors yard who has 5 dogs- he had no idea just how bad his short life would become! I now clip one side of their wing feathers- big help as they cant really go far or straight. Lol.

Hi Chris, I use to follow your chanel since almost 5 month, I am really interested in raising quail but it was quite difficult to buy quail in Haiti, I recently get a few of them and they adapt very well to their new environment. Thanks for all your good advice. As always, God bless

lol the one bird walked right out of the cage

Thanks for video.

inmate 07391 escaped protective confinement. lock or doors and close your windows....

Was that one escaped bird ever found

Are silver quails aggressive because my silver quail is doing the same thing? But I don’t want to send him to the freezer because he is the only silver quail I have.

one of your quails ran away

Hey bro your quail run away in 4.19 min in this video!!!!!!!

I have 5 adult button quails outside (4 hens, 1 rooster) and 3 hens have quite bad head injuries, when they've grown up together and had no previous issues. Could anyone advise on separating them at this point? Thanks in advance

Hello Chris. Enjoy your videos. I bought 7 Jumbo Pharoah about 6 or 7 weeks ago off Craig's list. They were about 3 weeks old. It was supposed to be 1 Male, and 6 Females. I'm knew to this, so I I'm not used to sexing birds so I assumed that's what I got. Things went great until a little over a week ago. Then, I found one dead one morning. Couldn't tell if he was killed, or just died from something. About 5 days later, right before dark I noticed a severely wounded bird with blood all around it's neck. The next morning, it was dead. Things seemed OK for a few days, but I had gotten an extra cage just in case. Then, I noticed it. I had two males in there, and now 3 females. It's possible one of the birds that died was a male too, I just don't know. The 3 females were getting more and more scalped. The largest of the two males, was by far the most aggressive of the two. I removed both males and put in the new cage. The larger one immediately started attacking the smaller male, so I put the smaller male back in the other cage. Going to try and get more females by the end of the month, but not always easy to find. Anyway, not sure if I'll reintroduce the aggressive male or not. Just going to wait and see what happens, and watch the other male and make sure the hens don't get even more beat up or he'll have to go too. Any other suggestions?

Did you find the quail that jumped out when you turned your back?😂

Hi mate! This channel has helped me out a lot over the last month or so with my Quail, how old would you say before I have a problem regarding roosters vs hen ratios, they are now 3 weeks old snd it’s almost a 50/50 split of hens vs roosters. It’s about 10 of each. Any advice would be appreciated, thanks mate 🙏

You Lost a Bird!

did you catch your runaway

I have a problem where I have too many roos - I am a vego so don't want to eat them. Is there was way to set up a bachelor pad cage or is that just trouble. At the moment I have One roo who was a bit of a bully and a bossy girl living together like an old married couple. 3 girls and another boy together. A boy by himself. One girl in the laundry who was scalped (She healed but has no feathers on top) and now is kind of a dog. One girl I took out and brought inside because we had a loud storm and somehow she had hurt herself and couldn't walk - she seems to be healing up now.

For my family, if one quail is stuck with another, they start pecking each other. How can you stop them from fighting like this? (sometimes, we mix the quail breeds.)

One of your quail got out

4:18 Mision passed, Respect :V

Hey man, love your videos! I’ve got a question, I’ve recently decided upon trying to raise quail (coturnix) myself and I’ve been doing a whole lot of research especially on your Chanel among a few other ones, and every Chanel has a different approach when it comes to how to start incubating quails. I have ordered an incubator off amazon that pretty much does all the work from keeping humidity levels to turning the eggs every day. The only obstacle I’m coming across is the fact that I had to order my quail hatching eggs online. Besides the fact that I’m a bit skeptical about it being delivered via amazon, I was wondering am I supposed to immediately put the eggs into the incubator the second they arrive or is there some other measure I need to take before beginning the process?

That one bird sneaking out made me laugh... I only have 2 hens and one male... both hens are brooding 12 eggs each... can I add more hens to keep my male entertained?

I have a problem. I'm 13, (so I can't drive) and one day I bought quail eggs at the store. I hatched two, one died at four days old, and got two more. Now I have 3 birds, two ended out being roosters. They fight at night, and today I woke up and my original roo, named nugget, had been beaten up. His forehead is plucked so much it's bleeding. He is imprinted, so he is tame, and I keep him in my house now for the time being. I'm contacting a breeder, and there is a female I have my eye on to even out the female to male ratio. My parents just wont drive me there to pick her up. What should I do?

I had 3 to 5 female to male ratio and one day one of the quail eye was hurt and head was really badly injured so I separated him meaning 2-5 ratio the next day it happens again to another male even though I had a better ratio still had the problems they are 7 weeks now but my other cage with 7 males no hens have no problem with them what should I do

I have a question but I'm not sure if this page is still active. I haven't seen activity here for a quite a while. Anyway ove the channel, very informative and clear. So, I have an aggressive male due to him having a pair. They are mating and I believe this is causing the aggression in this one male. He keeps fightingwith one other male who is mindinghis own businesson the other aide of the long cage. Do I remove him? Remove them both mating pairs?

i introduced a male northern to a female. she was not having him but got use to him after couple days.

Did you find the bird that jumped out

I recently took a injured quail from my coop so it could heal. Instantly once it was healed I tried to reintroduce it to the flock of quail. It didn't go that bad until one quail instantly started aggressively attacking it. The crazy thing is that it was only the one quail that started attacking it. After watching your video I realized 1. I need to verify how many male and female quail I have 2. Identify any abnormal aggressors

I have 4 females, three are a brownish color and one is black and white. The black and white started laying first and is getting picked on( it seems like by only one bird). Is the one bird aggressive or are they doing it because she is different/is laying and they aren’t.

I know this is old but tjat quail jumed out the coop. Lol

This may sound crazy but why don't quail just fly off when the door is opened up and unattended ?

Hi 👋🏼 New and learning! We only have females 6 jumbo coturnix and 6 Texas A&M. The last ones seems to be more aggressive I have separated them and when I add them back they start picking on everyone else. 8’X 4’ hutch … it could be that the hutch is too little? What can I do to help the 2 Texas stop bullying the rest of them?

Oh, just saw your response to someone else. I can’t leave my cages open at all my Bob Whites fly away.

Great video ! I did have to cull one male because he was really being mean ... all is well now- placed an Italian male with a brown coturnix female ... Now, these aren’t the same brood - but what are your thoughts on in breeding ? Does it matter ?

Your quail got loose!

lost bird at 4:21

Um. I feel like I just watched a quail jump out of the cage and fly away, and be has NO IDEA. He seems like a good guy and I’m not ripping on him, but I mean, it’s hilarious. Right??!?

Can quails compete broiler chicken weight for weight? I want to have a regular meat supply, two chickens a week is average requirement.

I had 4 quails and then got 4 more , they were all good before but now they stack each other

My male quail that i have alone now is always ready to mate, i do have a lot of females but they are only 6 weeks old not really laying yet. when would be best to let him in with the females? i was thinking after they have started laying on a regular basis.

hello cris. may nam is elyas. can you help me whith the quail. how to tell the age of the quail ? and if its egg layer or not? I well bee grateful. thank you very much. you ar very kind person

I have a bunch of extra boys, I don't want to eat them simply because many lives for one meal doesn't really set well with me. I got them for eggs, but ended up with quite a few extra boys. Then a fox came and got some, again mostly girls (I don't know what it is about my girls they seem to be more inquisitive than the boys and try to get out more for some reason which of course leads to them getting hurt). I am going to cull them because it's necessary though, it's much easier for me to wrap my mind around they are making each other miserable and a couple of times a girl got into the extra boy pen (my pen is made with bird netting and there were a few kinks to work out and of course the birds found these weaknesses in my fencing before I did) and they brutally pecked them and made their heads bleed. They are mean to each other with no girls in there with them (I have heard that with roosters if there are no girls to fight over they can get along well enough as long as they have a lot of space, and mine have a lot of space being they have a netted run) but not to the point of killing each other, they nearly bred those poor little girls to death. I fixed the problems with the fencing but now I am growing the boys out a bit more. If I must kill them then I want them to be of decent size that something can come from it, but I am not killing them for food specifically. Just killing them because their quality of life isn't good with the way they are with each other, and the meat is a byproduct of that pretty much. I totally get it if you can't have chickens etc why quail would be a good option for apartment people for a healthy meat source but we are allowed to have chickens here I will be getting some meat chickens next month. I would rather take one life to make multiple meals for my family rather than 10 lives for one meal. I'm weird I know but no matter how logical I tried to make it to cull them for meat before I couldn't do it. Now I know they aren't going to be able to have a good quality of life I can cull them. If I had more girls that would be one thing but I don't. Also as far as my fencing and the fox, my bird netting is hard to see, he doesn't try to get into it (one time he did but he almost got stuck so he hasn't tried since) he just sits by their netting if I don't put them in the giant pet porter at night, and they are so freaked out thinking he's in with them they jump out to him. It's odd they can't seem to do it in the day time their wings are clipped etc, but fear and that adrenaline rush makes them super jumpers all of a sudden. I am going to expand the pen and make the chicken pen surround the quail pen so he will be like 20 feet from them. If they get scared and jump out it will be into the chicken pen and since the rooster and hens will be in their coop at night the rooster won't attack them, and since the fox is cautious enough not to want to be stuck in a barrier he can hardly see he likely won't go further. He tries to do his worst in a short time both attacks because my dogs go bonkers. He's a young adult (I say he but really not sure the gender only that it's young) he's not wise enough to stay clear of people yet. Older foxes tend to be more cautious. We had a fox in the yard before a bigger one and it came around the back from the woods (that is why my birds are in the front yard where everyone frequents) but it never came passed the border between my yard and the woods. This one is cocky but hasn't been back since my dog chased it last time. I am also thinking about doing an electric perimeter around the expanded pen just in case he gets really cocky. So far he just sits there and waits for them to freak out enough to come to him though and honestly I suppose that would make anyone feel cocky lol.

The pet shop owner said two brothers raised together, wouldnt fight . But after several months one of the quail was picked on badly by the other , i eventually had to separate them .

One cane came out

one escape

I had 1 I thought was going to lose an eye put him in cage by himself doing great and breeding. I washed his face a little. Do you do that?

You keep them from fighting by having proper room. My dad had lots of room for the quail he raised. And they never fought except for when they were trying to get their giddy up on. But then he also sold a lot to a gentleman who trained hawks.

I have one hen thats very aggressive . They are in a community cage . I hate to cull her because she is big , but no reason to keep her around if she stresses all the other hens out .

bird escaped

How do you prevent inbreeding when the next hatch becomes your new breeders?

I have 1 rooster and 1 hen in a cage together. They are currently 6.5 weeks old. Grew up together. Hatched together. My rooster isnt successful in mating. I've watched him chased and gripped her feather but still he could never do it. What do I do? Shes a fighter and will run once she noticed his long neck going. He is also starting to be very passive aggressive toward the hen when he sees us around. He'd run toward her and peck at her harshly. He always try to attack me from inside the cage. My hen is always trying to fly out of jump out of the cage. I'm not sure what to do at this time. Should I separate him?

Hello. I have 11 quails. Today I was cleaning their cage, and I put them into a pet carrier. One of the quails just randomly started attacking everyone. She broke one the quail's beak. After I finished cleaning I put them back into the cage but that aggressive quail didn't stop. I couldn't touch her because she would just attack me. I put on gloves and took her out of the cage, I put her into the carrier without any other birds. It's been a few hours and she hasn't stopped being aggressive. Will her aggression go away? Is there anything I can do?

I am a new quail owner of jumbo pharoahs and I had noticed that one of my males was sluggish and not looking good. We are lost trying to figure out why he had a very deep large gash in his throat. We thought maybe there was a sharp part of the cage we didnt see. My question is can roosters cause such extreme wounds to other birds? Unfortunately we had to put him out of his misery because he was lethargic and wasnt going to make it. :/

University Of Texas a.m. said all eggs need to be kept 50 - 55 degrees, and turned at least 3 times in 24 hours. All eggs will incubate at 70 degree"s or above. Ship all eggs, over night express, and will double the cost of shipping, but U will get a excellent hatch, by being over night! Don"t buy from E Bay or Amazon Prime, as all the quail people ship ONLY priority Mail, which is 1 - to 3 days! They wont hatch! Buy from some one on C.L. farm & Ranch who WILL ship Express Over Night!

Woopsy, lost one in the beginning there!

My female fight to another female and i have one male which fight to first female What i will do please help me

I got two quails but one is so argresive leaving other one in corner what do I do

Love your video's im in the process of starting up keeping quails

Chris Thanks , I love your vids. I am new to quail, I have 6 hens for eggs. They just started laying, getting about 4 eggs a day. However, all of a sudden the biggest hen is like a goon on the 4th line of a hockey team....running everyone. Jumping on them and pecking them pretty good. 2 have some blood at the base of their beaks . I have her in a cage above all on her own now ( penalty box), for a day or so to see if she mellows out. Do you think this is a good idea? Or should I have quail for supper ? Thanks

Hi Chris, I had similar issue with a rooster pecking on one of the three hens in the cage. These 4 quail were together in the cage for about 7 weeks. All of a sudden this rooster started pecking at one of the hens and severely injured her. I moved out this rooster for half a day and returned it back to the group unfortunately overnight it pecked a lot causing severe injuries. I am still guessing what has changed suddenly for it to peck. The only change I made was moved their cage into a new room which has a light during the night and temperature was perfect.

Found your site today - great videos! I have a quick question re Button Quail. Do they tend to groom each other or are they heading towards feather picking? My little ones are just now starting to lay and out of 13 (in a 2x4 foot cage) I know I have at least three hens. Today I saw three (one of which I know is a hen) all huddled together gently grooming each other. NO aggression whatsoever, the groomee was obviously enjoying the attention of the groomer! Is this sextual behavior, indicative of gender, or just because they are clutch mates and happy with each other? Thanks!

Please help. I only got 5 Quail’s, all girls the area not very big, but plenty space for them. Hatched them in first lockdown. So got two girls upstairs and 3girls down stairs. They got on very well for whole year. Today one of the girls attacked the second one from upstairs. She had both eyes really badly pecked lucky haven lost them. Don’t know what could of caused it. The been together from birth.

Why my quail is picking and hurting a fixed quail... and its bleeding

Criss 3 of my hens have open wounds on their back I put them in another cage with younger birds seem to be healing they in with 18 other hens and five rosters 21 sg foot cage I think I removed the roster doing the damage not sure why would they go for the back and not the top of the head for some loven thanks for all your help

One of your birds jumped out

LOL.. I took the worst offenders in my cage and had them for dinner tonight! Problem solved LOL!

how old can a bird be to be used for Meat and for good egg production ?

One scaped!!