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I've added up to date pictures of one of the pairs here. It's heartbreaking seeing their little faces up for re-homing 😞 But I'm determined to find them somewhere they'll be happy. The poop eating unfortunately continues, their own and each other's. I wonder if I should try nutri-drops in...

Thanks everyone for your help! All 3 suspected girls have now laid eggs, and we seem to have 3 happily bonded pairs, couldn't have been luckier. Now for the part I've been dreading, having to find new homes for 2 of the pairs 😞

Thanks for your thoughts! I'm glad to know she's female, they've actually started finally mating today rather than just chasing, and they're even building a little nest together :love The bald spot definitely just seems to be some overenthusiastic preening, but thankfully she's started backing...

I really hope I've got the genders right! The male, Humbug, is 100% certain because of his colouring and crowing (with the wind sound). I haven't seen any male behaviour at all from Biscuit and thought from her pattern that she's a red breasted tuxedo hen, but would love a second opinion: You...

I've just seen Humbug preening Biscuit (the one with a small bald patch) and he does seem to fixate on that spot and pull quite hard… but she doesn't try to get away. It almost looks like he's trying to pull and eat the small feathers. What's going on? Do I need to separate them too? 😢

I tried to put all four back together (Humbug and Biscuit back with Twiglet and Blondie) but they didn't seem very happy, one of the males (Humbug) made a couple of jabs at the female he wasn't put with before (Twiglet), so I split them up again. Humbug and Biscuit are the pair that were...

So I separated them into pairs this week, the first two to mate have been getting along famously, breeding quite a lot but the female looks okay. The second pair seem very sweet together, and I've spotted them mating at least once. The third pair though… well the male makes a lot of...

Well, the poo eating continues... one will pick dry bits out of the bedding, but the rest go straight for cecal poops, the more wet ones. It's not like they're stumbling across them and being curious, they see one of them poop, then run over for it. I'm feeding them a mix specially sold for...

It’s 3 & 4 from this thread (they’ve both changed a bit and feathered in more by now): https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/button-quail-colour-id-sexing.1406169/ The jumping seems weird to me because it’s not mating, it’s number 1 from that thread, who is just boinking up against the...

Well there's been a couple of developments and it looks like we have our first pair :love They've been hanging out a lot and I'm sure I've seen them mating a couple of times. What's concerning me now (along with the weird night jumping) is that they have all been doing fairly small, dry poops...

Yeah, I think I will wait and see what happens, I just feel a bit bad as there are 6 of them in 4.6sqft of space at the moment. I have a large box ready to set up in case of any problems though. The only issue at the moment is one particular bird who insists on jumping up against the netting...

I haven't noticed any bullying yet, and they still all seem to mingle together a lot. As soon as I think two might be forming a bond, they're off preening someone else! 😅

Thanks for both your answers! Haha yes! I think their passion is definitely pooing on things. Good to know about them offering food, I think mine are still getting the hang of things being young and have no patience. I think you must be right about feeling trapped, I thought they'd be okay as...

I'm totally new to birds, and thought it would be interesting to know what certain things mean when my buttons do them! I'm hoping I can add to this thread as I notice new noises or behaviours, and see if anyone else with buttons (or perhaps all birds/quail do the same) knows what's going on...