I live in Chicago. These two are inside due to a having a small flock and the bigger male was trying to kill his little brother. I hatched my first quail out in Oct and got 7. Five females and two males. I brought one of the girls in to keep the poor guy company.
They've been in for a week...
So iv been watching her more and I think it might be nesting behavior of some sort? She laid an egg in the hidden little hollow she'd scratched out next to the box and the male with her is now standing over the egg looking confused. I was kinda hopping she'd go broody and was putting Her eggs in...
Shes just, very deliberately picking up big peices of sawdust/wood chips and putting them on her own back?
Shes got a whole little tower of them at this point.
She just a goof ball?