Do mice eat button quail?

[Nabiki]

Not great pictures but it was a try though

The agressive one
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This is the one thats doing the crowing sounds most of the time, calling him that because he seems to always torment and chase the other quails, even when there slightly bigger than him. Problably a male.

The Chocolate nugget
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More like a bystander amidst the chaos, very calm, very cute

Lavender face
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Not talking about the one thats eating, the one with the purple beak. Pretty cute

Makeup quail
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Not its real name but i like the markings on its face

Patchy
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Problably a courtnix if anything, pretty big ngl

Quail number 6
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We actually have 11 of them but taking a picture of each one is genuinely difficult.

"The bouncer"
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No comment, its just big

Those look like coturnix quail, not buttons. Buttons look more like this.

 

[Nabiki]

Here's something to help you with size comparison as well. This is a newly hatched coturnix quail with 4 week old button quail.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Recently one of my quail has a SUPER bloody head, almost like something was eating it. We also found out that the pen is now infested with house mice (the small brown ones). I would like to know if mice are known to eat button quails. The quails are less that 2 months old.

While others make a good point that it could be flock dynamic related.. I'm gonna say YES, 100%.. mice and rats are a problem for anything they can get their teeth on.. don't discount them!

Most often damage is seen as chewed off feet and legs through the wire.. but with your set up, who knows?

Good luck resolving your quail issue and getting rid of those pesky freeloading invaders.

 

[Kr1spy_dreamz]

Those look like coturnix quail, not buttons. Buttons look more like this.
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Ohhhh ok, didnt know that! Thanks!

 

[Nabiki]

Also, here are a button egg and a coturnix egg next to each other.

 

[shrimpsilkies]

All of these are domestic Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica. You have several colors that can’t be sexed by just looking at the feathers, but it seems like “Aggressive” is a male and “Patchy” is also male based on the brown face. Several of the Italian or Pearl Fee are definitely females.