The elder group of quails is six weeks old, and they’ve started to crow.  At first, it was cute and little.  It’s very “wild bird” sounding.

This morning I woke up at 5AM to A LOT of loud crowing.  We had our windows open, and I’m sure this exacerbated the problem, but the weather is so nice it seems a shame to keep them closed.  Covering the hutch seemed to work, but I am not pleased with this development.

I’ve put four males into a cage in the garage (it has windows, no worries), so we’ll see if that quiets down the crowing outside.  Less males to more females means less crowing – or so I’ve been told.  I previously had a 1:1 ratio.  Ideally you should have 1 male to 3-5 females.

Granted, the crowing is no louder than a dog barking or a cat fight…but who wants to hear that at 5AM?

I’ll keep you posted!