Anybody here breed these little cuties? I got some about 3 weeks ago, a quad of what I thought was 1 male/3 females....turns out one of the 'females' was a male with a solid black bib, no white whatsoever. I was wondering why I hadn't seen a single egg yet.... I'd been hearing crowing and thought it was the obvious male but it wasn't, it was the other one. So now I'm second guessing if the other two really are female! They're both dilute chocolates and very difficult to tell. I read something somewhere about there being some swelling behind the vent on males, but I really can't see it. I've separated them into pairs and the two, now obvious, males are the only ones making male type noises: the crowing and darth vader style growling....
I'll try to post pic's tomorrow. I feel like a failure not being able to breed button quail, they're supposed to be as easy mice! I've got the incubator ready and everything....
I know I've got the food/lighting/housing thing right...it's this male/female thing that I think is the problem..