So... I have two Japanese Quail now!

[Dani xxx]

Take a pic of their chests as if rust coloured and no spots def male for those colours anyway both look male in pics but can’t see chests fully
Girls have pale cream chests and spots some only have a few and Tibetans aren’t a different species just a colour variation the sticky at the top shows pics of female and male colour variations for coturnix quail
Sounds like the golden is submissive to the pharaoh one which is why he isn’t crowing but my male hasn’t crowed for a month or so since the girls stopped letting him mate with them

 

[Ulaidian]

Aye, I had a dominant male, and he stopped crowing once a younger bird (that was supposed to be a hen), became of age and changed the pecking order. Now he crows, but the oul lad still struts his stuff and sneaks a go at the girlies when the young one is preening etc
I was worried about fighting, but they have room to not be in each others way. If they were in a small cage..

 

[MageofMist]

Pretty sure he is a male as I see no spots, just stripes, and the chest is orange.

The boys free-range in the kitchen and were even left out of their box last night as I didn't wish to disturb them. Both quail were snuggled up to little Scruff, the youngest silkie cockerel.

Edit: Also... My two quail are now officially called Bambi and King Tut.
King Tut the Wild-Type, also known as a Pharaoh Quail. And Bambi the Roux Dilute, also known as a Fawn Quail.

 

[MageofMist]

Well, King Tut has been given the nickname "Scrappy Doo" I believe he is now officially insane!

He was chasing the chicken hens about trying to hop onto them! And they were running! And then he jumped up at Peep-Peep, a mature ROOSTER, who was a wimp and also ran away from the teeni quail as "Scrappy Doo" chased him!

I then had to put little "Scrappy Doo" into his box for a time out, as he got in a fight with big mama hen, who I swear is more of a rooster than the actual roosters are, and poor innocent Bambi kept getting caught in the crossfire between the two.

Meanwhile Bambi is the sweetest little thing, though he isn't as human-friendly as "Scrappy" is, but Bambi is fine with the tiny buttons, preferring to dustbathe in their pen than anything which made getting the button eggs easier as he pushed them to the door of the pen for easier access, so I didn't disturb the buttons too much collecting the eggs, and the giant chickens Bambi snuggles with.

But "Scrappy Doo"... He just wants to mate/fight with everything!

 

[JaeG]

Sometimes the males are pretty nutty! Just don't breed from him as personality does seem to be genetic. Poor chickens!