Quails - Brown Versus White

This morning husband noticed that all three white female bobtail quails were bleeding. Apparently one of the brown female quails have been aggressively pecking their feathers on the head and back. He also noticed that the white quails were not able to eat from the food container without being pecked by the brown female quail.

To avoid further casualties for the white ones, husband put a partition in the quail house to separate the brown quails from the white ones so that the white quails can heal their wounds in peace. He also put in new food and water containers for the white quails in their area.

I think that jealousy is the main reason for the brown female quail to attack the white females. I noticed that the brown male quail has been courting the white ones for several days, and the his mate might be jealous of the attention that the white ones are getting. Allah SWT willing when we go to the animal farm supplies store to buy chicken food, we may get a white male bobtail quail to mate with our female quails.