I've had it with my "bobwhites" today. They attacked the coturnix they hatched out with and killed one a month ago. At the time I thought it was maybe the banty faverolle mixes I had in the pen and seperated them out and thought that was the end of it. This morning I put my Texas AMs and my regular coturnix in the grow out pen with the "bobwhites" and went to work. I came home to find one Texas AM dead and the rest of the coturnix torn up and Crazy Larry and his brothers were still attacking them. Upon taking them out I got a good look at them and realized they weren't bobwhites. I looked at some websites and discovered the eggs sold to me as bobwhites are actually Tennessee Reds. I never wanted to get Reds due to how aggressive I've heard they can be even though they are a muted bobwhite color. I can't deal with them anymore and plan to butcher them Thursday evening and have quail for the Fourth.
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