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Production and Business => Poultry Production => Topic started by: prairie farmer on September 24, 2010, 11:22:07 AM

Title: Quail chick feed
Post by: prairie farmer on September 24, 2010, 11:22:07 AM

 I am looking for advice on quality game bird feed for quail chicks, medicated or not, protein levels. I recently lost over half of my new birds feeding Purina Quail starter. I am not sure if it was the feed, I found out after the fact that the feed was old and possibly moldy. Purina promised to open a complaint file and pick up a sample to analyze but never did anything.
 I want to understand what happened so that I can correct the process for next year. I can by lower protein feed 21% non medicated at a local farm store. I have used this with reasonable success for several years but I think I could improve the quality of my birds with better feed.
 What are you feeding?

Title: Re: Quail chick feed
Post by: slider on September 24, 2010, 04:39:03 PM

Purina Gamebird Starter....can`t beat it....$13.50 for a 50lb bag.

Title: Re: Quail chick feed
Post by: DoubleL911 on September 24, 2010, 05:51:22 PM

Purina medicated Turkey starter.
Ground to a fine meal.
First 2 weeks on quail
First 3 weeks for Huns

Title: Re: Quail chick feed
Post by: dan on February 25, 2011, 08:52:14 AM

I use nutrina wild game starter crunbles. & put some meds in the water. The water thing saves nearly 100% of the chicks

Title: Re: Quail chick feed
Post by: Coturnix Corner on January 26, 2014, 07:33:55 PM

I am looking for a recipe for a high protein quail feed. Can anyone out there help? ???