Re: when/how to introduce chicks? (coturnix)

mulroys wrote:
I hatched out a batch of Texas A&M quail, and at tha age of five
weeks, put them in the coop with their parents.

I came out later to find only two of them alive, (barely) and the
rest torn to shreds.

The surviving chicks are now 8 weeks old, and I'd like to put them
back in with their parents.

With chickens its best to leave them until they are "adult" -- aka 18 weeks
What is the equivalent age in quail -- use that :~)
Basically if they don't act as adults -- keep them separate

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