I read recently that quails can get bored if they aren't foraging, so I refurbished an old playground set to be a coop with a doggy cage attached to the side. Before the pictures I posted here it was empty with some rocks that act as ledges. For the most part they would just burrow in the ground...
I couldn't upload a video, so I made a gif of a recording from my quail pen. The lighter dirty cream quail is the focus. Does she have wry neck or an injury? I bought her from a craiglist ad about a month ago. I only have 1 male quail in the pen who does mount the girls. Maybe he mounted her too...
So I have a main pen area for my 9 female quails and I raise them for eggs. I give them a layer hen feed for chickens, but the packaging says not to feed to males. Because of this, I put a smaller pen that gives my singular male pen view of the 9 females but he is separated by wire fencing and...