Feed question?

[cajunboy74]

Thanks for all the help everyone, so I guess all my feeds are non medicated as I don't see any of those items on the ingredients list. I may just stay with the 30% gbs too like some of you do. My price is probably a dollar cheaper a bag to switch to the layer crumbles 20%. I guess we can expect a price jump to all feed coming with the fuel prices.

 

[destinduck]

Just for the record ducks started out on that high protien better be cut back in a coupla weeks or you are begging for angelwing. Thats a promise. But when I kept quail thats what I started and finished with.

 

[joe125]

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I would stick with the 30% GBS for coturnix if I were you. You should not have any known issues with it. One type of feed from hatch to dispatch, works for me.

Yes feed prices are going up. I paid the same for 30% GBS from 2007-mid 2010. It has gone up $2.00/50# bag in the past 6 months, and there is no end in sight. Just don't short your birds over $1/50# bag.

Good luck with your quail ventures!

 

[joe125]

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Sorry...I shouldn't have even made any duck nutrition comments, because I don't raise any ducks.
It's just that some of the people that I know do raise ducks, and tell me that they use PM 30% GBS for their ducklings. I just tossed that out there like a poop in a punch bowl, so please disregard.

Coturnix quail are lovers of perpetual sameness, but other birds may need growth specific feed changes. Coturnix do not need those changes.

 

[cajunboy74]

I think some people misunderstood my original post, it was my first post here so I was just saying I raise ducks and rabbits too. I didn't say I am feeding the ducks gbs. Sorry if I was confusing to everyone. I wasn't really trying to be cheap with the feed by switching I was wondering if the laying quail needed a feed designed for older laying birds kind of like how you would give chickens a laying pellet instead of keeping them on a starter feed their whole life but I guess that's not the case with quail. Thanks everyone.

 

[destinduck]

No worries cajun. No one got confused . Very valid questions. Everyone has different feeds in different parts of the country and for different species. What you may be able to get there.I may not here. Each bird even in quail species have different nutritional needs from courtinex to mearns. I just chimed in because before I die I would want angelwing in ducks (or any waterfowl for that matter) to be a thing of the past. And it can be if everyone would just cut back on protien prior to wing development. But the sad truth is when people say " Sure you can feed em GBS." Yea maybe 2 weeks. After that time ts bullcrap. First the ducklings never require 30% protien in the first place. 18-20 at MOST! Then here is where it all begins .Most people of course want to use up the rest of the food during critical wing development instead of dropping down protien and the damage is done. Im off my soapbox and didnt mean to hijack your thread but whenever and whereever I see these kind of generalizations on waterfowl feed requirements I will educate people so no heartbreaks later when they say "What's wrong with my birds wing" There is only a small window in a waterfowl's life that this is important after that well lets just say they can have ALOT of choices. Good luck with your Quail.