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What is the most humane method to dispatch a quail and should I reserve a day for it or just do it. I fear I keep hesitating but most of boys are aggressive and tbh I feel indifferent about most of them bc of how mean they are.

I culled my first male about two weeks ago and it still makes me sad. I'm just a big baby in general but I still have too many males and I want to cull them. I have Acron who is on the nicer side that I might keep. But Butternut, Mimi, skippy and Mango constantly call which annoys my neighbor. They're always fighting too. I reduced the sunlight and built a separate coop just for the boys, twenty feet from the hens.

However, they can't even get along, they always chase each other. Then stay alone in their own cages most of the day. It's just temporary until I can cull them. I think I want to cull all of them even though Ive had Mimi and skippy for a year already. But Mimis' wing has been injured since last year and he can't fly. Then Skippy is just a dick to everyone. How do I find quail groups in Southern California that could help me dispatch the males for me? I'd rather watch and learn than make a mistake doing it because I feel like I made a lot of mistakes for my first time. Do you think butchers would do it for me? I just feel bad and want them to show compassion towards them while culling. I think rn they're just unhappy and I'm indirectly harming them by keeping them even though they're aggressive.

I have a hen that is being quite a bully to her flock. I introduced 8 more hens in their coop of 9 feet by 6 feet then 6 feet tall. I did the math and I can fit around 30 maybe 40 quail so I thought they'd be okay. I dont want more than what I have which is around sixteen hens. I was dealing with her being a meanie before the new girls but it's been a week since they've integrated and shes still angry. I changed the whole layout of the coop and allowed the new hens to have full run of the coop while the older hens stayed in a hutch where they can watch them. Then the other girls didn't care at all but Grape kept chasing everyone and pecking them with whatever chance she got. I've isolated her for three to four days now and would tried to put her with them around the time the sun goes down. She can see them in the hutch and often watches them so I thought she'd be good. Everyone was terrified of her and when I put her away theyre all calm. I think it's because its spring time and they're hormonal. How do I stop her from being mean? Should I isolate her for a couple more days?

I culled my first male and I can say I'm really sad about it. He was attacking me, even left a mark on my hand and I knew he wasn't happy being in a tiny cage. So I culled as the first aggressive male and I'm sobbing. I know it's for the best but I decapitated him and I can't help but replay the moment in my head. I have to remember that he didn't feel anything for me, and it was all quick and painless.

I have my parents (im twenty three but live with them) making me feel bad about it and my mom said I traumatized her even though she didn't see anything. I have one or two more to cull but I'm going to mentally prepare for it again. I just felt awful bc I stared at his body for a while and couldn't bring myself to skin him and eat him so were burying him for the earth and my dad's new tree. At least when I bury him he'll become nutrients. I want to eat quail but the first one I couldn't and I'm still shaken up about it. I couldn't help but cry bc his eyes remained open before closing. It's a bloody process that left me traumatized. How do I get over the feeling of regret even though I know he would've harmed me, himself, my girls, and other boys? I feel like a bad person despite this being natural and a part of life.

I had posted on here not too long ago but I need to rant. I decided to go with the culling. I was going to cull the most aggressive male in my flock after he kept attacking me. I burst out into tears holding him and looking into his eyes and I couldn't do it. I put human emotions on these animals and I can't help but feel this immense guilt. He seemed so scared, nervous, and angry, it made me sob. My mom saw me and told me not to go through with it. I should just keep them as they are in their enclosure, that's all they know is to eat and poop. No, these animals feel, not the same emotions but they feel. I can tell they're angry, mainly due to hormones. They rub their noses against the wire cloth causing themselves to bleed or rush out and attack any girl they see. Theyre agressive and aren't safe for themselves. She thinks I should have my grandma cull them and eat them. I like this idea but I still feel awful.

I wanted to learn for myself so I could study their antomny but to hold something I named in my hand as it stared at me made me into a big baby. Ik this is a part of raising quail and I want to learn. I was thinking of having someone more experienced possibly on Facebook help me learn.

How do I get my selfish feelings out of this? I want to keep finding a solution to keep them. I was thinking of buying a three tiered Hutch and covering it in cardboard so I can reduce the sunlight. But what life is that to live? Just in a confined space in complete darkness.

If not my grandma, I would do it, or have help I was thinking of giving them to someone who can use them for their animals. However, I can't help but be selfish and scared to give them to anyone else.

How do I do this? Despite my mom telling me I shouldn't and even saying I WAS stressing her out. She said I should look into Indigenous culture and see how they accept life and cherish it after death.

How do you guys hold an animal, and not equate fear as the main response? How do you not look into their eyes and see emotions? I'm asking alot but I'm stuck, stuck on my selfish feelings despite everyone else saying I should do it for their sake.

I own six boys, and they all reside in their own separate spaces, each in a hutch. So I have two hutches; one is split into four spaces, and the other two. This allows me to keep multiple boys but tbh I didn't want any boys not for breeding or anything but I kept them because I can't kill anything. I actually used to be vegan. Idm ppl eating quail or raising them for that purpose, it's life. I just personally can't do it. But now I'm debating on dispatching some of my boys. I love them dearly and named all of them bc I was hoping to stand my ground and decide to keep all of them. However, about three or four of them are very aggressive and constantly fight me or each other. Every once in a while I'll switch them out and put one with my 8 hens only for them to be so aggressive that the ladies get pissed off whenever a boy joins the group now. So I've been keeping them on their own. When I do let them out its all together with the other boys. It's just constant fighting. I was going to build a small coop for them but what's going to stop them from killing each other? I could keep them separated but its alot of work and lately they've been finding ways to find a way to slip past the border and fight each other.

I don't know if I should learn to cull an animal. My parents don't think I should and should just let them live the rest of their lives but I feel awful having them in a space that isn't that big and pretty much live on their own other than interacting with the others a few times. I just feel like it's not fair to them. If I cull them, idk know what to do with their remains.

I don't want to leave them out for animals to take bc we've been having a problem with multiple animals on our property trying to take our quail and chickens and I just don't want to give them an excuse to come back by getting a taste. Another option was to bury them but what's the point of putting them down like that only to bury them? My mom thinks I should give them to someone who will eat them but I feel guilty having them have names and then giving them away like that. The last option for me is to keep trying. I was going to order a 3-tier hutch, much larger, and split it evenly for all of them. But that's another 400 I'll be spending along with the amount of food they waste.

Another option is to cull them obviously. I'm very squeamish and I throw up easily so watching the process made me feel sick. After a couple of times, I was still sick but able to process it. If I do this, I've been thinking about using it as food. My parents think I'm crazy but talking to my friend and thinking about it, I've raised them and given them a great life so far but some of them are too aggressive to interact with others and that's not fair to them to be alone being such social birds. I've never eaten quail and I'm unsure if I'd even like it especially knowing it was once a pet. I also understand where they came from and how they were raised and loved. It doesn't help the guilt about it though.

I've tried reaching out to others who might take them in as adoption but not a lot of people want aggressive males. I mainly want to cull my two or three boys. Butternut, Carrot and mango because they attack me every minute I stick my hand into their enclosure. They actually harm themselves too by constantly scratching their noses against the wire cloth and causing themselves to bleed.

My parents think I should assert my dominance and I try but that makes them even more pissed. Can I please have some advice and judgment free. I'm unsure how to also find people close by through Facebook to learn from them and possibly have them do it while I learn. Bc I want to learn if I want to hatch my own quail again or learn to put them down when they're ill bc I spent about 1000 already in vet bills for sick birds that I couldn't put down myself. I also feel like im going to be judged by my family for doing this because I was adamant before but I just don't feel like it's fair on them, like they're not having a good life being alone.