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#1 07/30/2009 8:07 am
- chicken_angler
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Can you feed millet to quail?
Is it alright to feed millet to your quail? I have two plants growing and I already fed a few little sprinkles to them and they went crazy. But then I found one dead the next day.
I am not sure if it died from the millet because I never saw the Coturnix eating the millet. The dead one was a hen and it was laying in a nest outside. It was also a little wet from the rain.
Anyways, is it safe to feed millet to quail?
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Heya!! I'm Cody & I currently have 12 mixed breed chickens, 2 ducks, & 23 quail!
Large fowl-6NHR,1EE,&1RSL Bantams-3 Sebright/Japanesse crossesDucks-2 Indian Runners
Coturnix Quail=23 of various ages
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#2 07/30/2009 8:17 am
- becky3086
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Re: Can you feed millet to quail?
I used to feed some of mine bird seed every day which has millet in it.
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#3 07/30/2009 1:06 pm
- laputa
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Re: Can you feed millet to quail?
Can not be.
I have been dumping the left over food of my parakeet (mainly millet) into my quail cage for several days as a treat, and see no side effect.
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#4 07/30/2009 1:38 pm
- quailbrain
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Re: Can you feed millet to quail?
I can't imagine it being bad. My parakeets knock it all over the place and the button quail are my clean up crew for them.
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#5 07/30/2009 2:07 pm
- feather leg farms
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Re: Can you feed millet to quail?
Yeh, I've seen severel people use it on youtube and their Button Quail look nice and healthy. I am getting ready to go buy a huge bag of millet sticks. Mine are 2 weeks old.
Along with my parents, I breed and sell buff brahma bantams, silver laced wyandottes, buff orpingtons, blue cochins, silkies ,Coturnix Quail, Button Quail, sizzles!
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White Black Cuckoo Partridge Birchin White Blue Splash Cuckoo Partridge Birchin
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#6 07/30/2009 2:17 pm
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Re: Can you feed millet to quail?
I just remembered.
Is millet in bird food? Yes
Are Button Quail in Avaries? Yes
Do birds drop some of the food? Yes
there u go!
Along with my parents, I breed and sell buff brahma bantams, silver laced wyandottes, buff orpingtons, blue cochins, silkies ,Coturnix Quail, Button Quail, sizzles!
SHOWGIRL COLORS SHOW SILKIES
White Black Cuckoo Partridge Birchin White Blue Splash Cuckoo Partridge Birchin
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#7 07/30/2009 3:10 pm
- shelleyd2008
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Re: Can you feed millet to quail?
You need to make sure they have some grit if you give it to them though, either regular grit or sand/dirt of some kind.
Looking for coturnix eggs? Contact me, please!
I have jumbo brown, golden, cinnamon, and whites; pharaohs in white, tibetan, tuxedo, rosetta, and red.
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