I read this recently, I'm not the author.
Three minutes of your time for some entertaining and persuasive writing:
In defense of a rooster - https://permies.com/t/67285/critters/defense-Rooster
Hi everyone. My quails have been raised on commercial food. I have lettuce and kale in my garden, they just wouldn't take an interest. I also gave them tomato and cucumber, they only carefully picked the seeds. I fooled them with some sesame seeds mixed with their feed. But really all they want...