Could a Jap Quail Have done this ? Graphic

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JEWEL
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I found this mouse the other day in my red factor aviary where my Jap Quail ( the large Quail like a bantam ? ) is housed. Its brain was missing, and its insides - but everything else was intact. Could my quail have done it ?? It was right where my quail sleep, next to their log.
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Tintola
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Jewell! I'm starting to think you might have a problem! Ah, not only with the vermin but with the need to photograph them. :lol: :lol: I don't think that the Jap quail could have broken through the skull to get to the brain. Are you sure that aviary is rat proof? Looks like rat damage to me. Looking forward to the next graphic pic in the current series of your exhibition. :snide:
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I have a Jap Quail and chooks that kill mouses but not eat them
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I think I smell a rat :irked: :hothead:

Edit: Didn't look/ read properly . . It's a mouse . . Dunno if a rat would kill a mouse :?:
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Oh, fantastic. Now they are IN my aviary ? This is war ! :evil: And i promise Tintola, i wont post any more of theses photos ! ;-) I was just curious as to what may have killed it, is all.
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Spoilsport!!! I was looking forward to the dog or cow pictured :P on the side of the highway.
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Tintola wrote:Spoilsport!!! I was looking forward to the dog or cow pictured :P on the side of the highway.
Me thinks you getting the wrong image of moi !! :P Dont tell anyone :shifty: ;-)
But now that you mention it ......... There has been a lot of talk this way about rogue BIG CATS ( The experts are saying Puma ? ) and there ARE people around here photographing decimated stock carcasses....... Purely for scientific reasons, i assume!!!!
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I have seen chooks do this to mice. Don't know about a Jap Quail.
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I would think a Jap quail could and would do that if they were starved for protein as i have seen them at dealers with blood all over them.It only takes one bird to bleed some where and the rest start continuely pecking at it,especially around the base of the tail Craig
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my chooks kill and eat any mice they happen across- bleck :sick: - puts me off eggs for weeks afterwards
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