Boil them up stick them in the food processor and feed them right back to your quails. Or get yourself npip certified and sell them online is hatching eggs
Yes you can eat button quail eggs they're absolutely delicious but it'll take a fair few 40 of them to make an omelet so I don't know if it's really worth that. I breed button quail and an npip certified although I am in Florida so there wouldn't really be any way you could avoid shipping. I...
No button quails do not do well alone they will actually get so depressed that they will stop eating and drinking until they die they are flock animals and should be put with at least one other button quail. There are also monogamous keeping them in mated pairs or small colonies is best
You may have to dig around ducks bury their eggs most of the time. So you may have a fair few ticking time bombs in your yard that you don't know about LOL
Button quills are also very temperamental mine will stop laying for a good week to week and a half every single time I clean the pen. So if you're cleaning the pen a lot that may have something to do with it or if you're rearranging what's in their cage
Sounds like you're doing great without it. A lot of times it's out of stock here so I will get a layer hen crumble and add mealworms and egg yolk for the protein.
We grew up drinking out of copper pipes for years as long as they are new and playing copper with no zinc inside it shouldn't be an issue heck you can even use a penny until the copper wears off and it's just sink. Use fresh solid copper 3 to 5-in pieces and you should be fine