Giving the quail "treats"

I can see my mini chopper bei g used for chopping quail treats ...

I have Japanese Quail, I feed them melon, raspberries, peppermint, mango, ginger that I blend with garlic, bananas, grass, and millet, yogurt, the odd boiled egg(but they are messy)...they go crazy for it. I also supply them with grit, crushed Zebra mussel shell (they are on the beach out front...so why not.) grain, and game bird layer. Never a sick bird...never a death (outside of the bator or brooder that is), and they bounce and hop around and are very happy indeed. I put raw unfiltered organic apple cider vinegar in their water supply also. It's expensive, so I make my own.

If you go to your local grocery store, there is normally a section with discounted fruits, might have blemishes, or over ripe, doesn't matter...this is very inexpensive and the birds love the over ripe stuff. You just get weird looks like...look at this poor homeless man picking from the compost discount bin...lol, but whatever, I just laugh.

I've never tried cheese, but I will catch bluegill in the local pond, pressure cook them and occasionally give them that. It increases the omega 3's and calcium for egg production.


You do have to slowly increase fruits, as it will go through them if you don't. But so long as you balance it out with grain, feed, shell, and grit, it's all good, and no blocked eggs...not yet at least.

apple cider vinegar in their water, and yogurt, will help with odor. Also when I feed them ginger mixed with garlic, they start to smell like a Asian soup kitchen, as they tend to roll around in it before they eat it.

I don't feed mine Avocados, as I also heard it wasn't wise. But I also know my quail won't eat anything they don't like, or think is toxic. They seem to know. They'd have to be pretty hungry before they ate something they are not keen on.

TwoCrows said:

I would go easy on the cheese as it can be hard to break down in the system if it is of a gooey consistancy. Good quail treats are greens of all kinds, chopped up veggies of all kinds, quartered apples, peaches, berries...my quail go nuts for snap peas in the pod. Corn on the cob is good for them, seeds, mealworms, sprouts, even grass.

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What about cooked dry beans or peas?

quailchick said:

I decided to try giving them fruit for the first time today, they are 3 mth. old Bobwhites. I gave them apricot chopped up. The picked at it a little bit, but didn't seem to like it much. I gave them egg yolk, which I usually give them the whites too...but the don't eat all the whites, so I decided to give them just yolk...well, they didn't eat very much of the yolk either, which they usually eat it up...maybe they just weren't hungry.

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Do You cook the eggs firdt?