feeding quail - don't make the mistake I did!

[KellyHM]

My Coturnix eat regular chicken layer crumbles...I know it's not the best, but I get 6 eggs a day from 6 females, so it must not be that bad.

 

[saddina]

Mine is 22%, 8LBS cost $5. Seems feed in CA is almost double everywhere else.

 

[Boyd]

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I feed medicated 30% startena by purina... its 19.01 ... just picked up another bag yesterday. Now if those fools don't start giving me more eggs, I am going to figure out who isn't producing and invite them to dinner........

 

[Goldlaced_Girl]

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"blue seal chick 'n game bird starter/grower"? Edited to say never mind you said "layer crumbles" LOL I'm feeding my adults the chick and starter because of the higher protien content works great

If so it's 22% highest I could find. Still low for coturnix, but highest I can find, and the egg production is a few extra eggs a day!

(amungst supplimenting with other protien sources).

oops, I didn't mean to say gamebird. it's regular 'ole chicken. layer crumbles or summat. works like a charm! I checked and it's actually 18%. should I go higher?

 

[justpete]

Could it be the age of the birds or perhaps a temperature swing?

My coturnix egg production seems to slow down in the hottest part of the summer.

 

[CoyoteMagic]

I have only feed my quail Purina Flock Raiser. Never had a problem with eggs. One of my "babies" has even started laying.

 

[bkvail]

the weather has not changed abruptly for me, nor did their 'space' or anything else. They stopped laying 2 days after the switch - ALL of them stopped laying the same day and I was getting 5-6 eggs per day from 9 hens (they just started laying about 1 month ago). They are in an 8'x8' floorless pen in the yard in the shade of a huge walnut tree. They get partial sun for part of the day. I am picking up new feed today.......

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I have noticed that with mine too. The higher the protein, the more eggs. Next time you run out/low, grind up some dried cat/kitten chow and mix it in with the layer feed. Works like a charm.

Mine also do slow down when it's really hot - mid-upper 80's so it could be a combination of the two. They have never all just stopped.

 

[bkvail]

I don't have cats, so won't have cat/kitten food on hand.........


in any event, just a couple or three days back on the game bird feed and they are back to laying eggs. So, now, I'm positive it was the feed!

 

[quail newbie]

Quail are so funny! I switched from turkey starter to turkey grower and the next day they all started laying