Food alternative?

[Tenesexx]

I've been feeding my baby quails dodson and horrell chick crumb they are running out I ordered more but it will arrive 5th april due to covid 19 is there an alternative food or no?

 

[sourland]

Can you stretch what you have left with corn meal, wild bird seed, hard boiled egg - anything to make sure that they still get a % of the balanced diet.

 

[Timothy Menezes]

Any other turkey or gamebird starter will work fine as. Look for 24 to 30 percent protein. I like the Purina Gamebird/Turkey 30% starter especially for high production strains.

In a pinch meatbird/broiler starter will work ok.

 

[Tenesexx]

Any other turkey or gamebird starter will work fine as. Look for 24 to 30 percent protein. I like the Purina Gamebird/Turkey 30% starter especially for high production strains.

In a pinch meatbird/broiler starter will work ok.

Thank you

 

[Zing 73]

I second the Purina

 

[Momto6kiddos]

I ran into a similar issue. I wound up having to get mine layer crumble from the local feed store. Initially, I was feeding them eggs to help with protein (the crumble only had 16%) then I mixed floating catfish food pellets with the crumble (which I got at Petco). They had 30% protein. Then I offered fresh table scraps, just in case there were any vitamins the crumble didn't cover.

If you can get your hands on crumble, do just about a 1:1 ratio. That'll give you about 23% protein. What I did was more by weight so it could be more accurate. I would do 1000 grams of crumble and 1000 grams of catfish food. You can add a bit more catfish food to up the protein percentage but I was still supplementing with eggs so I didn't need to.