This is one of the most needed details for new poultry keepers. Knowing the ratio for happy and healthy birds ensures success to keep loving having these animals long term without feeling like a failure. Thanks for the info, Chris. I love your channel.

I had 1 to 5, and he was over breeding 2. I ended up separating him, every night I throw one in for him, then quickly remove her.

If you separate off the males to a different pen to grow out together for another week or two, can they be together all males, or will that cause fighting issues as well? Would you need to have them in individual pens?

Beating each other up... I had one rooster who had plenty of hens but he obsessed with one hen until he pecked her raw on her neck and head. You have to watch them until you know they're going to be okay. I've also had one hen that was so mean she kept trying to peck me, too!
I don't breed from the mean ones, their offspring seems more likely to be mean, too.

Here in Egypt quails start laying eggs from week six.

I was gifted 6 quail which turned out to be 3 females and 3 males.  One of the males attacked and killed one of the other males, so I had to give the aggressor away.  That left me 1 male to 3 females, and that's what I got.  Sometimes the females do bully the male a little bit.  If it's just one hen doing it I will put her in isolation for a day or two, but if it's more than one than I move the rooster into isolation for at least a few hours or a day.  So far I've always been able to successfully put them all back together again, but they are only about 3 months old, and I've had to do 3 isolations already, so I don't know how much longer this can work.  I have ordered, and arriving in a few days, a much larger cage for them all and will have hiding places and nesting places and all kinds of good stuff for them, and hopefully that will help keep the peace...  Hopefully!

My ratio now is 4 rooster
And 5 females
And trust me whats going on now is the male jumping the other male ; like same sex is very normal among them when the ratio is wrong ; and also the females are super stress tho my cage is 5 meter long and 1.5 wide

Excellent, informative video!!! 👍

So the roosters that i separate they can be kept together in an all male cage?

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Hi Chris i have 2 def roosters 1 unsure of, i had been keeping the oldest male and female together but he was chasing her to much so i took her out.. now i have a crowing problem. How many males can be safely kept wit 7-8 hens?  i noticed the Males are mating with the younger females but they have not started laying yet..would that stop them from laying like causing stress?

What do you do with extra roosters?

Can I keep my female quail in a separate cage but next to female cage. I just want to prevent the noise he makes.

Thanks for this video new to raising quail and have noticed that some are getting beat up their 6 weeks 4 days old when should I cull the extra roosters

Great video man. I do largely the same with mine. Ignore all the ignorant comments. People are weird.

I don't think I will wait until one of my girls gets beat up before removing the boy.

I can't stand the males

I see people asking question but no answer not good at all thats why i do not like the videos subscribe cause they all are the same people want to learn about the quails

Is that a cage or coffin?

how can you tell the difference between a male and a female quail ?