Free rein feeding method

[Geena]

@Geena Did you see this picture?

Are you planning on popping the popcorn first?

Oh, duh! Thanks.

OP are you planning to feed these items from day one?
Baby quail are awfully tiny and probably won't be able to eat a lot of that stuff.

 

[Ital]

So you are are aren't feeding the kernels to the quail?

Is this not something you’d recommend?

 

[Kiki]

Is this not something you’d recommend?

Is that a yes or a no?

 

[Kiki]

Oh, duh! Thanks.

OP are you planning to feed these items from day one?
Baby quail are awfully tiny and probably won't be able to eat a lot of that stuff.

New total protein for the starter 28%.

1 part blue poppy seed 18% protein
1 part flax 13% protein
1 part peas 26% protein
1 part quinoa 13.8% protein
1 part buckwheat 9.6% protein
1 part chia 19% protein
1 part corn 9.4% protein
1 part millet 11% protein
1 part amaranth 14% protein
1 part teff 9.6% protein
1 part soya flakes 41% protein
1 part sunflower seeds 15% protein
1 part mealworms 53% protein
2 parts black soldier fly 41% protein
3 parts cannabis seeds 32% protein
3 parts crickets 58% protein

And 22.2% protein for the breeders mash.

1 part blue poppy seeds 18% protein
2 parts flax 13% protein
2 parts peas 26% protein
3 parts quinoa 13.8% protein
3 parts buckwheat 9.6% protein
1 part chia 19% protein
2 parts corn 9.4% protein
3 parts millet 11% protein
3 parts amaranth 14% protein
3 parts teff 9.6% protein
1 part soya flakes 41% protein
3 parts sunflower seeds 15% protein
1 part mealworms 53% protein
2 parts black soldier fly 41% protein
3 parts cannabis seeds 32% protein
3 parts crickets 58% protein

 

[Ital]

Oh, duh! Thanks.

OP are you planning to feed these items from day one?
Baby quail are awfully tiny and probably won't be able to eat a lot of that stuff.

They’ll be finely ground so they should be able to to fit them in their tiny beaks.

 

[Ital]

@Kiki This has changed a few times since writing and then abandoned completely.

 

[Ital]

Is that a yes or a no?

What’s wrong with it? Do tell, I’m intrigued.

 

[SummerTheAnimalGirl]

What’s wrong with it? Do tell, I’m intrigued.

I don’t think she is saying it’s wrong, just asking if you are

 

[Perris]

@Ital you may find this useful (freely available, online): Kim S, Sung J, Foo M, Jin Y-S, Kim P-J (2015) Uncovering the Nutritional Landscape of Food. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0118697

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118697

There's a lot in it, and it's not an easy read, but it does focus on raw foods, and on the interactions and correlations between different foods (instead of treating each in splendid isolation as if a chicken or person ate X and only X, which none naturally does). It concludes
"Nutritional fitness, which gauges the quality of a raw food according to its nutritional balance, appears to be widely dispersed over different foods, raising questions on the origins of such variations between foods. Remarkably, this nutritional balance of food does not solely depend on the characteristics of individual nutrients but is also structured by intimate correlations among multiple nutrients in their amounts across foods. This underscores the importance of nutrient-nutrient connections, which constitute the network structures embodying multiple levels of the nutritional compositions of foods".

edited to add, for Storm's benefit "An interesting question is whether foods with high NFs tend to be more expensive to purchase than foods with low NFs. Fig. 2C shows essentially no correlation between a food’s NF and price per weight (r = −0.02, P = 0.65; see also Fig. E in S1 Appendix)."

 

[Ital]

@Ital you may find this useful (freely available, online): Kim S, Sung J, Foo M, Jin Y-S, Kim P-J (2015) Uncovering the Nutritional Landscape of Food. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0118697

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118697

There's a lot in it, and it's not an easy read, but it does focus on raw foods, and on the interactions and correlations between different foods (instead of treating each in splendid isolation as if a chicken or person ate X and only X, which none naturally does). It concludes
"Nutritional fitness, which gauges the quality of a raw food according to its nutritional balance, appears to be widely dispersed over different foods, raising questions on the origins of such variations between foods. Remarkably, this nutritional balance of food does not solely depend on the characteristics of individual nutrients but is also structured by intimate correlations among multiple nutrients in their amounts across foods. This underscores the importance of nutrient-nutrient connections, which constitute the network structures embodying multiple levels of the nutritional compositions of foods".

edited to add, for Storm's benefit "An interesting question is whether foods with high NFs tend to be more expensive to purchase than foods with low NFs. Fig. 2C shows essentially no correlation between a food’s NF and price per weight (r = −0.02, P = 0.65; see also Fig. E in S1 Appendix)."

Thankyou!!! This is exactly the sort of info I’ve been looking for.