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I am jealous! They are so darned cute! Maybe by spring we will get everything regrouped and I will think about looking into them myself. Have I already asked you what you feed them?
They need a really high protein feed. Game bird feed or a nonmedicated turkey feed is best. I read that the babies should be fed feed with 30% protein. That is simply not available here. In fact, I have a terribly difficult time just finding game bird food or turkey food here at all. I can get little 5 pound sacks at
tractor supply. They cost a fortune. I did find a place 30 miles from here where I can get game bird food, at least. That's about $15 for 50 pounds. That's what I feed the adults. It's 24% protein. I feed the more expensive stuff from
Tractor Supply to the babies.
You have to use an electric coffee grinder (or something similar) to grind up the food for the babies to something close to the texture of cornmeal. The crumbles are FAR too big for them to eat, otherwise.
You also would want quail waterers for them. Get the flat marbles from the craft section and put them in the water trough, even with the narrow quail waterers. Quail babies are especially susceptible to dying if they get wet. Button quail babies are worse and can drown in even the smallest amount of water. Chick waterers are way too big. You could drown a hundred quail babies in one of those.
We feed the game bird food to our ducks, geese and guineas. We get it at Orscheln's. Do you have one of those around? If it is by chance not available, we buy the meaty bird food at the feed store. I have never seen quail waterers. What do they look like?
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