Hi everyone I got my quail from a guy that has raised them for years. Now that in no means is saying I agree with any of his raising because my older quail I git from him had poo caked on there feet so bad I had to soke them for an hour to get it off. but anyway he always feeds his quail chick starter been doing it about 15 years besides the other problems of clean Ness they are fine. healthy and everything some of his quail are 6 mo. to a year and doing great. When i got them they were.doing great and that's what I feed them. Mine are now on layena mash it was sucking to buy 4 diff bags of chicken food lol. so they seen to be doing fine. and love anything they get. lol