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    For all who are thinking of making their own quail feed

    I have come across some useful info in "Nutrient Requirements of Poultry: Ninth Revised Edition, 1994" on GoogleBooks under the following link: http://books.google.ch/books?id=sy8rAAAAYAAJ, page 45. Please share any recipes you are using if you do not buy pre-mixed feed. Here the table...
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    Dehydrated Food Waste (DFWP) - feed for quail

    I have been offered DFWP: dried food waste from a commercial kitchen, it looks like chicken feed. The food is dried in heat, not decomposed. I am wondering if I have stumbled on a source of free quail food? I can see three options: 1) feed direct 2) use to grow mealworms, then feed (the...
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    natural quail remedies

    Hi, following on from a very interesting talk on how a rabbit breeder managed to eradicate a very serious disease by using natural remedies (mainly in the greens fed) I am left wondering: What natural remedy have any of you used (preventative or curative) on your quail? There are a few...
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    Conturnix noises and behaviours dictionary

    Thinking of the hours of puzzled observation when I first got my quail, I tought it would be really useful to compile a "quail language dictionary" perhaps with video or at least sound. Anybody join in?
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    Fly catcher = quail feeder?

    Human: fly = nuisance Quail: fly = candy Seeing how much my quail love eating any kind of bug, I was wondering if one could rig one of these electric fly catchers to drop their dead prey directly into the quail pen... unfortunately I cannot try this right now as winter has started, anybody...
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    Nutrition info mealworms, earthworms, red wrigglers(compost worms) etc

    Following on from the various discussions on using live feed, here's some info extracted from http://bamboozoo.weebly.com/the-feeders--bugs.html Lots of info on this page! Explains why my quail love eating any kind of bug. And worms have less fat than larvae. C.P. Crude Protein C.F...
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    shivering quail?

    My quail are hunkered down and shiver when I open the pen, what does this mean? I have treated them for mites.
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    Injured quail strange behaviour

    I was not careful enough when trying to introduce 5wks chicks to an established all-female flock. The one female chick got pecked on so badly she lost most of her head/neck feathers and the skin was cut in two places. So I've isolated it, disinfected the wounds, and am waiting for it to "look"...
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    is the sex of a quail pre-determined or dependent on hatching conditions?

    I got 4 male and 1 female out of my first hatching attempt, plus two dead in the shell. Someone told me that this might be a result of conditions in my brooder. What do you think? what male/female ratios do you typically get at hatching?
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    Free quail scratch - any ideas?

    One post mentioned acorns as scratch for quail, so I have been wondering if there are any other wild seeds that could be used as scratch, in supplement to quail feed. Beech nuts? conkers (horse chestnut)? chest nut (the edible type)? Obviously they would need to be shredded. My quail love...
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    How much light in winter?

    I installed a string of 50 warm white LED lights in my small outdoor pen after my hens had stopped laying and started to molt. It's on a timer so that they get light between 8am and 10pm. No sign of eggs yet. Is there any hope they will go back to laying or do I need to put a stronger light in...
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    Thank you for orthopedic success

    I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who so freely offer your expertise. Of the 5 chicks I hatched, first ever, 1 had splay leg and 3 had trouble with their feet. The splay leg was cured in 2 days by the bandaid hobble, the others in about the same time by masking tape sandals...
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    Can you raise mealworms in breadcrumbs?

    I was just wondering, bakeries here give away old (usually white) bread, could you dry it, crush it, and use it as substrate for mealworms? Anyone tried it?
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    how do you open a quail egg?

    Could you share your techniques of cracking open a quail's egg for eating - I always seem to get a bit of shell in my omelettes. How to best cook quail eggs hard-boiled so you can peel them without losing half of the egg white sticking to the shell? Thanks.
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    What NOT to feed quail

    I was wondering what plant or kitchen scraps should NOT be fed to quail? Tomato and Potato greens? Uncooked potato/potato peels? meat? cheese? Thanks for any input.
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    Could my hens be roos? - newbie

    I was sold 10 quail at 2.5 months old, supposedly 1 roo and 9 hens. One roo crows and shows foam and rusty breast, so definitly male. In observing the quail, I have noticed that 6 have spotted chests, so I guess females. 3 quail are mobbed by the cock, one of them has lost most head...
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    Quail novice Lake Geneva

    Hi, I have just started with (supposedly) 9 Conturnix hens and one cock, in a small poultry/rabbit cage in our garden. They are 2.5 months and lay 3-5 eggs/day (it's summer here).
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