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Let's just say I've read way more than one article on bird fertility lol.

Dang, I'd only heard up to 4 weeks max! As long as the environment's right...

Then if it shows a pheasant beak, you'd know it's a pheasant hybrid, ruling out a male Coturnix. I just don't see it though—looks like a normal chicken chick, maybe a little skinny.

Pheasant hybrids seem to keep the pheasant's beak shape. And "To our knowledge, hybridization by reverse crosses (female chickens × male quails) has never been successful." Via...

What I'm saying is it had to be a rooster. Maybe it's not even from this hen's egg, if you're sure she couldn't have encountered someone else's male. But it's certainly a chicken chick.

Nature doesn't just "do what it wants." Hybrids exist, but the animals have to be sufficiently related. Do you have picture of the young bird?