Feeding quail pumpkins for deworming

[The Critter Place]

I gave our quail scraps when we carved our pumpkins and they loved them!

 

[rittert3]

Pumpkins it is!! I wonder if processed vs. fresh matters though?

 

[The Critter Place]

I think they need to be fresh, but not sure.

 

[Chinchilla2]

Fresh pumpkin works best. If the pumpkins are still in fairly good shape and you can get the seeds out, you can run them through a food processor to reduce them down to quail sized. Make it a coarse chop instead of a powder. Because they are a little moist, you might want to let them dry out a bit first.

The two articles mentioned by Olive document that there is something in the seeds (cucurbitine) that does inhibit development and growth with tape and stomach worms. Considering that the p in all those statistics represent the probability percentage of error, having a p that is less than 0.05 (meaning there is only a 5% chance of error) is great. Even better when they give you an error probability that is like p < 0.001 since now you have less than a 0.1% chance of the reverse being true.

Gotta love being forced to sit through four, yes FOUR, blooming statistics classes.