Feamale Button?

[Ladybird CA]

I suppose you can hatch out some females for her males

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

You are not supposed to pair younger females with older males, apperentl the male will try to kill her

 

[DK newbie]

That might be true if the female is not mature when you pair them up - the male will want to breed her and she will think he is attacking and try to get away from him as if her life was depending on it, possibly killing herself in the process - or if you simply throw the female into the cage of the male, expecting everything to be fine. It might. But the male might also try to defend his territory and chase the invader away, or try to breed the female without properly courting her first, basically making it a rape.
But it is definitely possible to pair an older male with a younger female. Individual personalities can clash, but that goes for same age birds as well, so I'd give it a shot.
Put the birds in the same cage but with a wire mesh separating them when the female is around 8 weeks old, let them live like that for a week or two (well beyond the point where they try to attack each other through the wire), then introduce them to each other in a different cage or remove the wire mesh and rearrange the cage they are already in.
I've done it like that a couple of times and it has worked out nicely.

 

[MageofMist]

Usually when you introduce a new female, there will be some chasing and a little scuffling at first, but from my experience, it quickly resolves itself.

I introduced Coco, a very sweet blue faced female I brought to Rex.JR, a handsome blue faced male who I bred. There was chasing, panicked noises and some fighting at first but I trusted my instinct to hold off unless an injury was drawn. No injuries were drawn and after a while, they both settled down, and a little after that... Coco kept running up to Rex.Jr, squatting to mate, mate with him and then run into her nestbox, and kept repeating the process until he went into the nestbox with her.

... I swear, the two lovebirds went at it all night, and Rex.JR looked exhausted in the morning.

Somehow, the two blue-faced quails created this beautiful silver tuxedo hen, which both baffled and exited me as I love this morph!

 

[MageofMist]

Also, I finally fully decided on my quail breeding plan. I put my 3 female quail (The 2 cinnamons and the silver tux) with the cinnamon male I have... Poor guy has no idea how to react.

He is running around like a maniac and freaking out and the females are just COMPLETELY ignoring him and just going about their usual business of pecking about, it is rather comical. The females are all older than him by a few weeks, but he is mature enough to breed.

Edit:
Also, an odd thing I observed... It isn't males who designate where to nest and lay eggs, it is whoever is on top of the pecking order, regardless of gender.

The silver tuxedo confused me as she was doing the deep 'male' nesting call and was digging out a nest and calling the two other females to her, and I was like... "I am sure you are a female!? " and then she paused, laid her own egg, then continued the nesting call thing. Usually when females lay eggs, they make a loud chattering noise like "ChechechachaCHA!", not a deep "grrgrrgaagrr" noise that males do. XD

That means the poor male I introduced has been designated lower in the pecking order than the females, but I am sure once he settles he will take control.

Edit 2:
Red breasted cinnamon female has gotten curious and tried to lay next to him, he ran away and landed on the blue-faced cinnamon female by accident and got yelled at, and she has taken a disliking to him from that it seems. The silver tuxedo is still ignoring him.