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No, the feed should be adequate if it is complete and balanced. TSC carries feeds that have 24% protein. You can also feed treats of meal worms, pieces of apple, grapes, kale, celery, etc. Limit the treats to only 10% or so of their total diet.

You should have them moved to their respective pens long before the breeding season starts so they can become use to their pen and be comfortable with their new home. You need to find a complete and balanced feed of 24% protein. 22% protein is a little low for optimum results. Especially...

Yes, they won't lay until this coming breeding season. It's best not to try and "force" them to lay. Laying eggs is hard on female quail, takes lots of vitamins and minerals out of their system producing their eggs. Bobwhite's are seasonal breeders, they will lay in the spring, depending on your...

What brand of feed are you feeding them, % protein?

Most likely they will, especially if they were raised together. But there are exceptions to every situation.

If you have a very large enclosure, you can. They will all get along fine in the fall and winter when quail in the wild will covey up. Come spring time the males will fight over territory or females, that's when they begin to pair up for the breeding season. If raising them in small pens, then...

I still go by my first thought 3males and 2 females.

It's getting anxious or nervous, alarmed.

Yeah, males will call "Bobwhite" females will whistle what I call the "lost call" which is a series of whistles that could be translated or sounds like "white". They do this when locating other quail in the area and the males will make this call also. I have never heard a female call "Bobwhite"...

1st pic the 4 look like 3 males 1 female. 2nd pic there's 3 males 2 females. The light and position make it hard to tell for sure, especially the one in the back facing away and in the shadows. But I think that's what ya got!